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Seniors & Aging
How to Help Nursing Home Residents Enjoy the Holidays
Too often nursing home residents feel forgotten during this time of the year. While everyone is out gathering, making cookies and wrapping presents, older adults may be waiting for a visit or to be included in the holiday festivities in some way.
Driving and Dementia Q&A
It can be difficult to determine when a driver with dementia is no longer safe to drive. However, there are several warning signs or red flags that may indicate driving skills are declining and need to be evaluated.
Envejecimiento en el hogar: Preguntas y respuestas
La posibilidad de seguir viviendo en la vivienda depende generalmente de varios factores. Existe una amplia variedad de servicios para apoyar el envejecimiento en el hogar.
Diabetes in Older Adults Q&A
By Vaughn DeCoster, PhD, LCSW, and Holly Dabelko-Schoeny, PhD, MSW Living with Diabetes Diabetes is a disease in which the body does not produce or properly use insulin. Without adequate insulin, the body is unable to use food for energy. There are three major types...
Alzheimer’s Caregivers and Grief: Q&A
Researchers have focused on the stress, sense of burden, and depression that Alzheimer’s caregivers experience. Little reference has been made to the grief and loss reported by caregivers.
How Retirement Affects Retirees and Their Spouses
Both of you need to keep busy, sometimes together and other times by yourselves. And you should strike a balance between doing fun things and doing things you have to do.
Widows, Widowers, and Their Relationships
By L.B. (LeslieBeth) Wish, Ed.D, MSS Introduction Dr. L.B. (LeslieBeth) Wish is a psychologist and social worker. Wish. She has been a speaker for non-profit, corporate and university organizations. Dr. Wish offers sound, research-based relationship advice...
Aging in Place Q&A
By Kathy Black, PhD, MSW What is aging in place? Aging in place refers to people getting older in their home, or the place where they live and wish to continue to reside. The majority of older adults wish to remain in the homes they have lived most of their lives and...
Struggling with Aging? A Geriatric Care Manager Can Help
Geriatric care managers are professionals who have multidisciplinary insight into key medical, functional and social issues important to the care of older individuals with complex medical and social problems.
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Queer People Should Have Queer Friendships
By Faye Beard Feeling connected may be more important now than ever. For queer people, those connections are potentially life-saving. Last year, the Trevor Project’s U.S. National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Young People showed the link between anti-LGBTQ+...
Surviving Survival Mode
By Faye Beard Flight, fight, freeze and fawn are the body’s common psychological responses to stress, experts say. Survival mode, according to the Mental Health Association in Delaware, is a “prolonged state of stress and is marked by both mental and physical...
Schools Can Provide Great Therapy Options
By Faye Beard For students with mental health issues, their best option for therapy could be right at their school in the social worker’s office. According to a recent study by the University of Texas at Arlington and Virginia Commonwealth University, more than 95% of...