A PDF version of this letter can be found on the National Alliance for Caregiving website. SUPPORT FAMILY CAREGIVERS The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has magnified what we’ve known all along – our institutions are not prepared to support family caregivers. We write to...
This article originally appeared on Black Health Matters. As your parents get older, how can you be sure they’re taking care of themselves and staying healthy? When you visit your aging parents, start by considering these questions: 1. Are your parents able to take...
by Christina N. Harrington. This article originally appeared on Next Avenue. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick recently said that he and other older Americans would be willing to risk death due to the coronavirus in order to protect the U.S. economy. What followed was a...
SAGE, the world’s largest and oldest organization dedicated to improving the lives of LGBT elders, has recently launched SAGEConnect, a program that matches LGBT elders with volunteer community members and allies in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. For many of our...
by Dr. Marcy Adelman. This article originally appeared in the San Francisco Bay Times. These are extraordinary times. It has only been since March 17 that Mayor Breed ordered San Francisco residents to shelter in place, to stay indoors, to slow the spread of infection...
This article originally appeared on the PHI blog. Illustration by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay A remarkable though unsettling new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has drawn attention to the extensive harm that social isolation and...
