‘Often, the most important issues with older adults are not purely medical.’
Social Prescribing Can Optimize Quality of Life and Age-Friendly Care
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How Social Prescribing Is Reconnecting Older Adults
Art Pharmacy demonstrates that “prescribing” the arts in community reliably improves older adult well-being.
A 1-Year Social Isolation and Loneliness Intervention
Health professional students learned how to educate elders on SIL and provide potential social prescriptions to help.
How Companies Like GeriatRx Can Foster Social Prescribing
Reducing medications empowers deprescribing advocacy.
Changing Lives by Challenging Use of the Word Dementia
Removing dementia from our vocabulary would likely lead to earlier detection and hope for help.
How Your Phone Could Save Your Eyesight
Exploring new digital health tools for older adults to monitor and manage eye disease at home.
Why Millions of Older Workers Depend on Medicaid to Survive
Explaining the risks we face with potential slashes to this crucial program.
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.
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?
‘Your Grandma Is Here for You’
How Black grandmothers raising their grandchildren care for children’s social and emotional needs.
Getting Grandchildren Back on Their Feet
How Black grandmothers raising grandchildren tend to children’s physical development.
‘I Wanna Put That Education in Them’
How Black grandmothers raising their grandchildren support children’s cognitive development.
Getting By Is Not Enough
Poverty—A neglected driving force in skip-generation African-American caregiver households.
Family Dynamics When Grandchildren Are Not Siblings: An Opening Discussion
What we do and don’t know about the impact of family composition on family or child outcomes, particularly in grandparent-headed families.
The Impact of Latino Culture on the Experiences of Abuelitas (Grandmothers)
How cultural values like familismo, machismo, and marianismo can influence grandmothers’ view of their role.
A Case Study of Compound Caregiving by an African American Grandmother
Addressing the preferred ways extended family and healthcare providers might provide stress relief for compound caregivers.