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Partnering during the pandemic: Evolving on the fly in Wisconsin
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Climate Change or COVID-19: What’s Your Story?
‘These older adults have rewritten the stories they tell themselves about climate change.’
Aging While Living in a Digital World
‘Older adults are already leading more digitally connected lives.’
Compassion & Choices releases tools to demystify dementia planning
‘One can choose between four levels of care for a multitude of situations.’
Edwin L. Walker: Be Credible, Genuine and Truthful, and Join the Mission
The field is filled with dedicated professionals who could go elsewhere and make more money. But it’s not about the money, it’s about being in tune with a mission and knowing that it means something to do this work.
Building Empathy and Understanding through Shared Experiences
Embodied Labs is committed to developing immersive training for professional and family caregivers that’s based on the authentic experiences of individuals who have been marginalized.
Overcoming the ‘silver tsunami’
Aging is a first-person experience.
Averting a Housing Crisis and Shining a Light on Inequities in Elder Housing
‘I wanted to recognize the key role of the “shelters” in which most older adults live.’
Homelessness Among Older Adults: An Emerging Crisis
Increasing affordable housing, using targeted prevention, and adding permanent supportive housing could decrease homelessness.
Engage early with caregivers, see a drop in patient rehospitalizations
The pilot examined the impact of caregiver interventions on patient health outcomes and healthcare savings.
The Evolving Promise and Potential of the Granny Flat
Accessory dwelling units, while evolving in design and use, continue to reshape communities to include older adults.
Partnering in a changed world: the Network Operations Learning Collaborative
‘Integrated care is even more critical when people are staying at home all the time.’
The promise of technology for older adults: ephemeral or essential?
‘The high expectations we have held out for technology simply have not been met.’
Lifelong Learning in the Age of COVID-19
Lifelong Learning Reimagined—An Opportunity and Challenge
Homeownership Among Older Adults: A Source of Stability—or Stress?
Home ownership late in life can have financial and emotional benefits, thus policy that assists younger adults in home-buying should be developed and enacted.
Instead of Aging in Place, How About Trying to Age in the Right Place?
From a financial and health perspective, aging near amenities in a safe house may trump aging in one’s longtime home.
Jennie Chin Hansen: understand where you fit, embrace ambiguity—and know when to leave
Leaders need to be willing to take chances.
Re-career? It’s No Problem, with the Advent of Increasing Practical Guidance
‘People are changing careers several times across their lives.’
Fernando Torres-Gil: get out of your comfort zone, be self-confident and resilient
The real action in the aging field lies ahead of us.
Universal design: unifying human diversity and building access across the digital divide
Slow tech adoption has amplified the digital disconnect brought on by the pandemic.