How New Tech Can Support Caregivers as They Support Seniors
Up to 42% of Americans over the age of 65 take five or more medications, and in 2018, at least one in...
Elder Care
Dilemmas and Solutions for Americans Raising Children While Caring for Elderly Family Members
Approximately half of middle-aged people in American provide financial, health, or emotional support for adult parents and minor or adult...
The Critical Role of Caregivers, and What they Need from Us
Caring for loved ones who have aged or become disabled is not a new concept. Many of the services provided...
Stressed Out Caregivers Are Using ER Visits for Respite, Study Finds
Emergency room staff call it a “pop drop” – when a disabled older person comes in for medical attention, but...
Low Medicaid Rates Limit Beneficiaries’ Access to Assisted Living Facilities, Quality Care
More than 700,000 elderly and disabled Americans receive health care in residential care communities, such as assisted living facilities. As...
Elder Abuse in the Twenty-First Century
In this “silver tsunami” era, elder populations are outnumbering the younger workforce. This creates significant inequity and more than enough...
Are We Forgetting About The Sandwich Generation?
By Ed Kashi and Julie Winokaur When working with elderly patients in health care facilities, it is likely that we may forget...
Are We Afraid of Developing Technology for the Elderly
I work for a hospice program providing palliative care which means we attend to the emotional and spiritual needs of...
CleverCare Watch Brings Peace of Mind
A few weeks ago at the Home and Community Health Association conference, I met some of the team behind CleverCare,...
Adult Services and Mobile Technology: There’s an App for That
Adult Services Social Worker Kristen Hamilton helps a client sign a form using a mobile app In today’s technology-enabled world,...
Are Social Workers Disempowering and Contributing to Widening the Power Differential
The last place one would expect to find ageism well and flourishing is in the helping professions, particularly among those...
A Gentle Approach to Dementia for Care Providers
When I first became a hospice social worker, I was stunned to realize more than half of my patients were...
Elder Abuse: Don’t Let It Be Your Grandma!
By Denise Bartley, Andre Juste, Rachel Meadows, and Guiseline Momplaisir According to a study by the National Center on elder...
Older People Living Alone With Dementia
We are having a conversation, social worker to social worker, about the older constituents and clients who we each try...
HUD Awarded $7.5 Million to Assist Disabled & Elderly Americans Live Independently
In late September, HUD’s Secretary Julián Castro made the announcement that nearly $8 million in grant funding will be used to...
Spotlighting the Launch of the DOJ’s Elder Justice Website
Recently, the United States Department of Justice announced the launch of the Elder Justice website which was created to help...
Aging-in-Place: It Can Be Detrimental to Your Health
Surveys show that most people when asked prefer to spend the last years of their lives in their homes rather...
African Americans Speaking Out About Alzheimer’s Disease
This month, we learned that former model and restaurateur B. Smith has been living with Alzheimer's Disease. Smith, dubbed the "black...
Ageism and the Anti-Aging Industrial Complex: What Does Wisdom & Beauty Look Like?
How do you feel when you sit down to unwind in front of the television at the end of the...
Does Obamacare Benefit Baby Boomers?
Baby boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, are changing the definition of what it means to grow old. Baby boomers...
