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Today, COVID-19 presents a huge challenge to our daily lives, but nowhere is this challenge as acute as within our senior living communities. For those of us who care for some of our community’s most vulnerable, this has been an especially challenging and stressful time as we defend against an invisible enemy. As the CEO...

Moving forward while learning lessons about grief and living with the loss By Jackson Rainer For more than 25 years, I served as a psychology professor and researched grief and bereavement. I consulted and taught individuals, couples and families to meet the demands that chronic illness exacts, to build safety nets and resilience in the presence...

This is a dark age for many of us. The coronavirus pandemic has put global populations at risk, stripped millions of people from jobs and savings and isolated us in ways many have never experienced.

The last few days, I’ve been receiving calls and texts from friends and neighbors. One person was running to the drug store and asked if I needed anything. Another friend wanted to be sure I had food. And another called just so we could talk about how surreal life during the coronavirus pandemic feels.

Last week, the House of Representatives joined the Senate in giving final approval to a five-year renewal of the programs and services of the Older Americans Act (OAA).

In light of the World Health Organization declaring the coronavirus (COVID-19) a pandemic, Immanuel Living is establishing precautionary measures as of 7p.m. Friday, March 13, 2020.  At this time, access to the community is restricted to essential visitors only. The new visitor restrictions follow guidance from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid as well...

During CES 2020 in Las Vegas in January, more than 4,400 companies debuted some 20,000 tech products, everything from 8K TVs to foldable laptop computers to plant-based pork from the people who brought you the Impossible Burger. (Clearly, the show has grown beyond just focusing on consumer electronics, as it once did.) Aside from the...

The author, a nurse, gives an inside scoop on modern medicine By Grace Birnstengel  Credit: Elle Moulin for Next Avenue Part of the AGE-FRIENDLY HEALTH CARE SPECIAL REPORT (Editor’s note: This story is part of a series for The John A. Hartford Foundation.) Around the time Sana Goldberg began nursing school, her grandfather had a serious, undetermined health...

A call to action based on a new survey of female workers and retirement By Richard Eisenberg Money & Work Editor  There’s bad news and so-so news about the retirement insecurity of American female workers in the new Aegon Retirement Readiness Survey 2019. But the good news is that if employers, the U.S. government, financial...

History and culture tours can elevate your travels to the next level By Nancy Monson  Once you’ve seen the Eiffel Tower, well, you’ve seen the Eiffel Tower. But when you learn about the history of how it was built (this architectural marvel was designed as the entrance to the World’s Fair of 1889 commemorating the...