Senior care providers look to immigrants to alleviate workforce shortage
Senior care executives lobbied on Capitol Hill this week seeking relief for an acute and growing shortage of long-term care workers. They asked lawmakers to...
Read moreSenior care executives lobbied on Capitol Hill this week seeking relief for an acute and growing shortage of long-term care workers. They asked lawmakers to...
Read moreAdvocates gathered in Washington this week to push for greater protections and better services for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender seniors, who face higher rates...
Read moreThere are more than 40 million caregivers in the United States today. So, how is it that they can seem virtually invisible? How can people...
Read moreIn the 1960’s the average life expectancy for someone with Down syndrome was 10-years old. Today, people with the disorder routinely live into their 50's...
Read moreEvery day since her husband broke his hip, Beatrice Egger has been afraid. The 91-year-old retired teacher worries when William, 90, a retired principal, is...
Read moreLeslie Tracy wanted to be able to help when her mother took a turn for the worse in her battle with ovarian cancer last spring....
Read moreLast March, the 2018 federal budget included a provision to increase funding to a program that helps prevent and protect against wandering, a critical safety concern...
Read moreMany first-generation Muslim immigrants in America turn to family members to care for them as they grow older. Their reliance on family has deep cultural...
Read moreSeniors hoping for new advances in pain relief just got a potential boon from Congress. On Dec. 20, President Trump signed a new farm bill...
Read moreJan and Edmund Wagner imagined time would slow down when they retired. They’d have more time to spend with friends and enjoy visits with their...
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