Older family caregivers report more positive interactions with loved ones’ healthcare professionals
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 16, 2018
Older family caregivers, including relatives of senior living residents, rate the quality of their interactions with loved ones’ healthcare professionals more positively than do younger caregivers, according...
Study: Healthcare workers rarely ask family caregivers about needing assistance with older adults
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Lois A. Bowers
Jan 27, 2020
Healthcare workers caring for residents of senior housing, apartments and private homes usually do not ask family caregivers about needing support in managing older adults’ care, according to a study...
App aims to improve communication, care coordination
By
Lois A. Bowers
Nov 16, 2017
A personal experience with a relative with dementia inspired high school student Logan Wells and his family to develop an app to help improve communication and the coordination of care among professional...
Wisconsin legislation would boost respite care
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jan 26, 2016
Legislation introduced in Wisconsin would provide $1 million for respite care and help the state’s 578,000 family caregivers assist loved ones with activities of daily living in other ways.
Kim Campbell is on a memory care mission
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Lois A. Bowers
Oct 02, 2017
Three years after Glen Campbell received his Alzheimer’s diagnosis, his wife, Kim, didn’t know that memory care communities existed. Now she’s on a mission to ensure that other family...
Where your new residents are moving from
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Lois A. Bowers
Sep 19, 2016
A new survey of visitors to senior care-related websites reveals where older adults are living and, when they are residing in senior living communities, where they moved from. Survey results also detail...
Groups back Clinton’s proposed tax credit for LTSS
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Lois A. Bowers
Nov 23, 2015
On the heels of the release of a new study about the financing of long-term services and supports in the United States, two organizations representing senior living providers are expressing approval for...
HCBS, caregivers focus of presidential hopeful Cory Booker’s long-term care plan
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Lois A. Bowers
Jan 03, 2020
Changing eligibility for long-term services and supports, expanding access to home- and community-based services, increasing compensation for paid caregivers and finding a way to compensate family caregivers...
Cruise set for people with Alzheimer’s, caregivers
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Lois A. Bowers
Jan 08, 2018
A cruise ship may seem an improbable setting for a conference for professional and family caregivers and those with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease or dementia. In September, however, Holland America’s...
Survey: Picking a place to age is a balancing act for older adults, families
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 21, 2018
Choosing whether and where to move is a balancing act for older adults and their families, according to the results of a new survey by Caring.com. The findings suggest an opportunity for senior living...