Aging In Place For Low Income Seniors?

Aging In Place For Low Income Seniors?

Margaret has an emergency medical condition, goes to the hospital, and then to a nursing home for rehabilitation. Along the way she loses her job, her car, her apartment, her meager savings, and ends up on Medi-Cal (California’s Medicaid program). Her medical...
Why private homes are public places

Why private homes are public places

Private homes are public places. There is no doubt. Yet many of them are not designed for inhabitants or visitors of different ages and abilities. How many of you have friends or family members who are in a wheel chair or need some other assisted mobility device?...
Advertising Aging

Advertising Aging

Pete Halberstadt owns West Advertising and among his clients are Assisted Living Homes and Car Dealerships. Everybody wants a new car but what about advertising care, and the image of a home when people are mostly in crisis and have exhausted the option of staying in...
There Is No Excuse For Elder Abuse

There Is No Excuse For Elder Abuse

You could not think of a better advocate for elder abuse than Mary Twomey, astute, articulate and funny. Yes, we did laugh at our last forum on elder abuse. Mary, who co-leads the Institute of Excellence on Elder Abuse at UC Irvine and also founded the Ageless...
Caring For Children And Parents

Caring For Children And Parents

Sheila Malkind, who in her 70’s, runs the Legacy Film Festival on Aging in San Francisco, presented at the last AHWGO salon in January a selection of films from the festival. One of them, ‘The Sandwich Generation’by Julie Winkour initiated a very interesting exchange...

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