Up to 42% of Americans over the age of 65 take five or more medications, and in 2018, at least one in...
Approximately half of middle-aged people in American provide financial, health, or emotional support for adult parents and minor or adult children. The term “sandwich generation caregiver”...
Caring for loved ones who have aged or become disabled is not a new concept. Many of the services provided in hospitals, clinics and even funeral...
Emergency room staff call it a “pop drop” – when a disabled older person comes in for medical attention, but it seems like the person who...
More than 700,000 elderly and disabled Americans receive health care in residential care communities, such as assisted living facilities. As the population ages, this number will...
In this “silver tsunami” era, elder populations are outnumbering the younger workforce. This creates significant inequity and more than enough opportunity for people to take advantage....
When working with elderly patients in health care facilities, it is likely that we may forget about the needs of their adult children aka The Sandwich Generation. The...
I work for a hospice program providing palliative care which means we attend to the emotional and spiritual needs of terminally ill patients at an inpatient...
A few weeks ago at the Home and Community Health Association conference, I met some of the team behind CleverCare, a new service that connects an...
In today’s technology-enabled world, adult services social workers are looking for better ways to help them with their work, but they may be worried about how...
The last place one would expect to find ageism well and flourishing is in the helping professions, particularly among those who devote their careers to working...
When I first became a hospice social worker, I was stunned to realize more than half of my patients were diagnosed with advanced dementia. I had...
By Denise Bartley, Andre Juste, Rachel Meadows, and Guiseline Momplaisir According to a study by the National Center on elder abuse, 63.7% of the reported abuse...
We are having a conversation, social worker to social worker, about the older constituents and clients who we each try to help. She works in a...
In late September, HUD’s Secretary Julián Castro made the announcement that nearly $8 million in grant funding will be used to assist thousands of people with disabilities...
Recently, the United States Department of Justice announced the launch of the Elder Justice website which was created to help further combat elder abuse and financial...
Surveys show that most people when asked prefer to spend the last years of their lives in their homes rather than in a community or institutional...
This month, we learned that former model and restaurateur B. Smith has been living with Alzheimer’s Disease. Smith, dubbed the “black Martha Stewart” due to her career...
How do you feel when you sit down to unwind in front of the television at the end of the day and you are bombarded with...
Baby boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, are changing the definition of what it means to grow old. Baby boomers don’t want aging services the same...
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A recent study by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers provides evidence that CD4+ T lymphocytes — immune system cells also known...
Although extreme poverty in the United States is low by global standards, the U.S. has the worst index of health...
Recently, I had the opportunity to give a webinar on disability cultural competence to social service workers, but was met...
Pediatric neurologist Jane Tavyev, MD, has advice for parents looking to help their children learn social skills after pandemic isolation....