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Pet Partners Volunteers Step in When Others Are in Crisis
Creating a happier and healthier world through the love of therapy animals.
From Hospital to Home: The Essential Role of Nutrition Plans at Discharge
Involving patients, caregivers and families is key for nutrition plan adherence and readmission prevention.
How Shifting DOT Funding Priorities Hurts Grandma, Grandpa and Their Families
Concentrating federal transportation spending in high birth-rate areas may isolate elders in their neighborhoods.
Strategies to Reduce Healthcare Cost Burden via Medicare Savings Programs
Explaining MSPs and how to expand access to them.
On Homelessness, Housing and How We Got Here
Past opportunities, inflation are behind the wave of older adult homelessness, but viable solutions exist.
Students’ First-Hand Experience in Collaborative Geriatric Care
USC students meld healthcare knowledge with personally gathered on-the-ground details for better outcomes.
If Loneliness Is Equivalent to Smoking 15 Cigarettes a Day, Then Imagine This …
Why not combat loneliness in the same way we fought smoking?
Another New York Story
A new book chronicles how a nondescript bakery in Manhattan provides company for the struggles of late life.
Working Well Past Retirement
Older workers cite high cost of housing, necessities, for staying longer in the workforce.
The Fire Next Time
Natural disasters lay bare society’s deepest inequalities, and for older adults, challenges are life-changing and potentially life-threatening.
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