A soon-to-be med student on what she learned about active conversations with elders.
Listening as the Foundation of Care
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Grandpas United: Purpose, Servant Leadership, and the Power of Intergenerational Connection
Older men want to matter. They want to serve. They want to lead with humility, wisdom and compassion.
Japan Changed How I Think About Aging in America
A journey through sample long-term care options pointed to some great solutions.
The Torque Wrench Gang
Or how to tighten relationships between generations and gain employable skills at the same time.
Healing Better at Home with Quality Wound Management and Nutrition
Mobile wound management fosters a shorter healing time, with patients’ wounds healing on average nearly twice as fast.
Transforming Digital Advocacy into Structural Change
An ASA RISE Fellow on the power of immediacy for solving caregiving crises and how an online platform could lead to lasting change.
Multisector Plan for Aging to Life: Lessons from Southeastern Vermont
Proving how community, collaboration, creativity and trust are essential for supporting older adults in rural areas.
The Need for Timely, Personalized Food and Drug Recall Notifications
Recall notifications are not finding affected consumers, but more effective methodologies are possible.
Levito Madre: The Resurgence of Multigenerational Families
Bridging traditions between the United States and Campania.
Deep Dive: New CMMI Models Now Elevating Nutrition
Evidence-based prevention, empowering people to achieve health goals, and driving choice and competition are the three pillars guiding CMMI models.
Health and Home
The role of Medicaid and managed care in home- and community-based services and long-term supportive services.
Maybe Elephants Can Dance
Tracking the growth of home- and community-based services over three decades.
Medicaid at 60: Its Essential Role for Older Adults
Shining a light on Medicaid’s challenges, disparities in access, and recommended policy changes to strengthen the program.
Expanding Medicare’s Ability to Provide Home-Based Care
What would it take to make care at home possible and how might we implement it?
Ten Years of NCI-AD
Supporting quality and accountability in long-term services and supports for older adults and people with disabilities.
Older Americans Act Revisions: Enhancing Community Supports for HCBS
Tools like the NCI-AD are proving invaluable for collecting meaningful data, monitoring service quality, and driving continuous improvement.
Person-Centered Supports for Older Adults: How Paid Family Caregiving Measures Up
Parsing findings from the National Core Indicators and Adult Consumer Survey regarding paid and unpaid caregiving.
The Role of Area Agencies on Aging in Medicaid Waivers and Medicaid Managed Care
This model offers a proven, scalable approach for aligning healthcare with community supports for older adults and people with disabilities.
Beyond Home Care—What Now?
‘Ensuring the comfort and dignity of older adults requires us to consider an “all-of-the-above” strategy.’
America’s Home-care Crisis
Will vulnerable elders be forced into nursing homes?