by Hassan Abbas. This article originally appeared in The Arab American News. DEARBORN HEIGHTS — The Michigan Center for Contextual Factors in Alzheimer’s Disease (MCCFAD) is a newly formed Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR), housed at the University...
Don’t Let Social Distancing Isolate Elders
This article originally appeared on the NICOA blog. Although the implementation of social distancing is necessary to flatten the coronavirus curve and prevent the current pandemic from worsening, the stress of isolation can have an affect on anyone. With elders...
Hidden and Buried and Locked
by Cynthia McCormick. This article originally appeared in the Cape Cod Times. When Cape snowbird Marie Seufert tells people in her Florida retirement community that she’s a widow, they sometimes ask when her husband died. “I say, ’No, it was my wife,” said Seufert,...
National Nutrition Month: Highlight on the Elder Index and Food Insecurity
Developed by the Gerontology Institute at the University of Massachusetts Boston, the Elder Index tool is used to measure the income older people need to meet their daily living expenses while staying independent in their own homes. The Elder Index tool is specific to...
Simple Tips for Eating Well
by Cheryl Toner, MS, RDN. This article originally appeared on the blog of the National Council on Aging (NCOA). There are few things in life as comforting and nourishing as food, but it can be controversial and confusing, too. It’s so essential to life one would think...
‘We Weren’t Expected to Live This Long’
by Grace Birnstengel. This article originally appeared on Next Avenue. (Editor’s note: This story is part of Still Here, Still Positive: A series on the first generation of Americans aging with HIV/AIDS, with support from The John A. Hartford Foundation.) More than...