From early screening to nutrition treatment and follow-up care, updated guidance helps teams prevent avoidable weight and muscle loss in older adults.
Thadd’s Place in rural Oregon provides an intergenerational model of grief support.
MTM Pilot Act recently introduced in Congress.
SPSC’s aims to provide services and a culturally rich community for seniors to lead vibrant, healthy and independent lives.
What might it take to legitimize elderhood as a stage of life?
On learning to appreciate aging and find alternate ways of facing death.
How can we take Connected Communities from a model to a movement?
A faultline running through work, family, and policy.
Growing the immigrant care workforce will be a critical part of any solution to our nation’s care crisis, yet we’re currently doing the opposite.
A thoughtful proposition on how, as much of elder care happens at home, its delivery might be substantially improved.
Care, community, and the future we must build.
Radical inclusion is the key.
Elders evolve through the power of art.
‘Vitality can act upstream, shaping other capacities rather than directly impacting functional impairment.’
With many factors contributing to nutrition risks, including diseases, medical treatments, functional health, social/mental health, and quality of diet/food access, agreed-upon tools for reliably assessing such risks are helpful.
AI is only as good as the system in place to support it and the oversight to mind it.
Designing community for mental well-being in later life.
Why this ASA RISE alum strives to help the practice of Occupational Therapy reach its full potential.
One ASA RISE alum’s successful effort to weave equity into her daily, critical work helping people who call in to the Alzheimer’s Association.
When intergenerational connection is intentional and sustained, it can transform individual lives and entire communities.
