The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, the educational arm of the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, and SAGE,...
Though not everyone will become disabled with age, we are more likely to experience impairments and disabilities as we get older. According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2017 American...
Failing health, crumbling incomes and rising home costs have forced thousands of senior citizens into the streets. In California, for example, more than 30,000 Los Angeles area seniors...
A new study was released on the 95 benefits of having a dog + dog and human relationship facts.One of the dog-human relationships examined was that of dogs and seniors. Dogs make seniors...
With hearing loss ranking as one of the most common chronic health conditions that U.S. adults experience, affecting an estimated 48 million people nationwide, the American Speech-Language-Hearing...
Choice Mutual’s report on America’s End-of-Life Preparedness. The survey studied how well American's are prepared for death—from prepping their wills to leaving instructions...
Nursing homes (NHs) with Black residents had higher rates of COVID-19 infection and deaths during the first wave of the pandemic compared to those with no Black residents, according...
Recently Dr. William Thomas, founder of Eden Alternative®, Green Houses® and ChangingAging.org, spent five years traveling the country talking with elders and people who care about...
Although older Americans have been the most at risk of dying from COVID-19, the pandemic has resulted in a rare drop in healthcare spending for this group in 2020, according to a new...
Second Wind Dreams® is proud to join UK partner, Training2Care Group, as they launch the Dementia Interpreters™ program created by Glenn Knight. Beginning April 1, 2021 this innovative...
The Alzheimer's Association® has launched a new training program with certification exam aimed at educating care professionals in long-term and community-based care settings — such...
One-year into the COVID-19 pandemic and even with the light of the vaccine on the horizon, a majority of Americans are still fearful, according to a new healthinsurance.com national survey...
