Interviews reveal what might and might not work to foster social prescribing in the community.
Community Perspectives on Social Connection Programs
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Connecting Generations, Empowering Lives: A Vision for Social Prescribing
An eyes-wide-open account of how social prescribing should work, equitably.
Social Prescribing: A Geriatrician’s Perspective
How might solving for social isolation and loneliness improve physical health?
How Social Prescriptions Help Patients—and Physicians
Where and how the practice got off the ground in a real way.
Social Prescribing Can Optimize Quality of Life and Age-Friendly Care
‘Often, the most important issues with older adults are not purely medical.’
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.
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.