Health professional students learned how to educate elders on SIL and provide potential social prescriptions to help.
A 1-Year Social Isolation and Loneliness Intervention
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How Companies Like GeriatRx Can Foster Social Prescribing
Reducing medications empowers deprescribing advocacy.
Applying Anti-Racist Initiatives to Promote Health Equity
AgeSpan in Massachusetts benefits from a diverse service area and staff, which means ramping up racial equity training for service providers, funders and staff.
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.
On Homelessness, Housing and How We Got Here
Past opportunities, inflation are behind the wave of older adult homelessness, but viable solutions exist.
If Loneliness Is Equivalent to Smoking 15 Cigarettes a Day, Then Imagine This …
Why not combat loneliness in the same way we fought smoking?
Diversity Among Grandparent Caregivers: What We Need to Learn
Defining challenges, raising questions, and providing answers to which type of research might best assist BIPOC grandparents raising grandchildren.
GRAND Voices—Powerful Advocates for Change
Grandparents raising grandchildren are highly valued as key advisors to policy makers.
Supporting Kinship Caregivers
Washington State’s cultural adaptations for Latine and tribal families.
A Culturally Adapted Kinship Navigator Program
Successful parenting program in the Port Gamble S’Kallam Tribe allows children to stay with family or tribal members acting as family.
Empowering Grandparent Caregivers Via In-Person and Virtual Programs
In-class connections between grandparent caregivers can be key to acquiring the skills necessary in modern child-rearing.
Keeping Families Together Via Better Guardianship Rules
Guardianship laws fall short of meeting the needs of BIPOC grandparents and the children in their care.
MPAs in Action: Incorporating Behavioral Health in Oklahoma
How Oklahoma’s MPA ensures that older adult mental health is a state priority.
Catching a Moving Target
Older adults try to adapt to fast-changing AI, other technology.
Creating a Road Map for the Caregiving Journey
A guide the author never knew she needed, written from learning the hard way.
When the Personal Becomes Professional
Family dementia caregiving inspires a business that centers Dementia Villages in underserved communities.
Caregiving and the Absolute Necessity for Radical Self-Care
‘Radical Self-Care isn’t optional—it’s a survival strategy.’
Fostering Dementia Family Caregivers’ Resilience Via a Virtual Social Model
Mental health is often overlooked in other caregiver support programming.
The Potential of Using AI to Design Safer Communities
Once data is gathered, design modifications to elder care facilities could be warranted.