The Administration for Community Living (ACL) has a forward-thinking Innovation Lab that can take what the Aging Network has learned about implementing evidence-based programs and fill in gaps in communities that have none. In #GenerationsJournal: generations.asaging.org/evid…
What is the value of caregiver supports and how can caregiving programs be tweaked to benefit family caregivers and receivers? Collecting data at the state level is key. Read why in #GenerationsJournal: generations.asaging.org/stat…
Data from Medicare and Medicaid can help local communities improve elder care, and Nils Franco and Joanne Lynn have monitored dozens of measures on a population basis. Read how this might help your locality in #GenerationsJournal: generations.asaging.org/data…
The PACE program is often held up as a highly successful model of services for older adults who need long-term care. The new #GenerationsJournal has its origin story, and it’s a good one. Learn why it works and how it started here: generations.asaging.org/pace…
The PACE program is often held up as a highly successful model of services for older adults who need long-term care. The new #GenerationsJournal has its origin story, and it’s a good one. Learn why it works and how it started here: generations.asaging.org/pace…
Data from Medicare and Medicaid can help local communities improve elder care, and Nils Franco and Joanne Lynn have monitored dozens of measures on a population basis. Read how this might help your locality in #GenerationsJournal: generations.asaging.org/data…
Hospital at Home delivers hospital-level care at home. Due to COVID, Acute Hospital Care at Home could be paid for via Medicare, temporarily. How did those behind these models get it all done? By proving it works. Read the details in #GenerationsJournal: generations.asaging.org/how-…
Integrating research evidence into healthcare practice and policy takes time, but the aging sector can’t wait. Interprofessional Collaborative research teams are key for integrating research into practice and policy. Read how in #GenerationsJournal: generations.asaging.org/prom…
The PACE program is often held up as a highly successful model of services for older adults who need long-term care. The new #GenerationsJournal has its origin story, and it’s a good one. Learn why it works and how it started here: generations.asaging.org/pace…
Guest Editors Bonnie Ewald and Claire Ankuda want to know if all the work people do to assist elders is paying off, and they know the answers lie in applied research. Plus they love data. Read their framing of the new #GenerationsJournal issue here: generations.asaging.org/appl…
‘Paying for long-term care privately is arguably the biggest health-related financial risk facing frail older adults today,’ say Huisingh-Scheetz et al. in an excellent piece on how to achieve equitable health outcomes, in #GenerationsJournal: generations.asaging.org/heal…
Super cool elder-led community model in Japan born out of a natural disaster empowers older adults, helps the community, and brightens everyone’s life. Called the Ibasho Model in #GenerationsJournal: generations.asaging.org/ibas…
Super cool elder-led community model in Japan born out of a natural disaster empowers older adults, helps the community, and brightens everyone’s life. Called the Ibasho Model in #GenerationsJournal: generations.asaging.org/ibas…
Only 28% of older adults with substance use disorder receive treatment. A multipronged national effort is underway to address the shortage of geriatric mental health providers. Read all about it in #GenerationsJournal: generations.asaging.org/buil…
‘There has been very little investigation into the mental health literacy of older adults.’ So what do they know and how that knowledge or lack affect them? Lisa Furst and Kimberly Williams have all the answers in #GenerationsJournal: generations.asaging.org/ment…
Only 28% of older adults with substance use disorder receive treatment. A multipronged national effort is underway to address the shortage of geriatric mental health providers. Read all about it in #GenerationsJournal: generations.asaging.org/buil…
Ageism can have a profound negative impact on elders’ mental health. Changing one’s own notions about being old is a first step. People proud of their age tend to live with fewer negative emotions. @Tracey Gendron spills all in #GenerationsJournal: generations.asaging.org/impa…
‘Creative arts can induce a cascade of neurotransmitters associated with pleasure and reward,’ says @Jeremy Nobel, MD, MPH, in a happy take on our loneliness epidemic, in #GenerationsJournal:
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Resilient people allow themselves to be transformed by adversity, and focus on their strengths, which allows them to navigate stressors. Read this fascinating, positive take on older adult mental health in #GenerationsJournal: generations.asaging.org/cult…
Ageism can have a profound negative impact on elders’ mental health. Changing one’s own notions about being old is a first step. People proud of their age tend to live with fewer negative emotions. @Tracey Gendron spills all in #GenerationsJournal: generations.asaging.org/impa…