Healthy Aging : Organizations
Do You Need A Little Help
Dr. Paul Leon RamseyStay in your own home and community as you grow older with A Little Help. With A Little Help, you can connect with your neighbors to enhance your life and the lives of others. By joining A Little Help...
Inform, Transform, Inspire: Changing the Culture of Care in Colorado
Penny CookThe world of long-term care supports and services is in a state of change. No longer are people satisfied with a system of care that tells them what to do without listening and supporting them...
Institute for the Ages: Innovations for Positive Aging
Institute for the AgesAging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength." Betty Friedan (1921-2006) ...
Senior Friendship Centers Are Lifelines in Times of Need
Senior Friendship CentersOur Mission: Promoting Health, Dignity and Quality of life throughout the journey of aging. ...
When Seniors and Their Families Can’t Do it Alone
JFCSGuided by the Jewish tradition of helping people. JFCS has delivered comprehensive counseling and social services on a non-denominational basis to the entire Sarasota –Manatee community since...
Do You Need A Little Help
Dr. Paul Leon RamseyStaying at home, in your own home, is one thing that almost all of us hope for. You want to live in a place that you know, surrounded by people and things you love. With A Little Help, you...
The Critical Role of the Area Agency on Aging in the Lives of Seniors
Nicole HartogThe Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG) is the region’s Area Agency on Aging, serving older adults in Adams, Arapahoe, Clear Creek, Douglas, Gilpin and Jefferson counties, the City...
The Eden Alternative: Where Elder Live and Thrive
Marla DeVriesThe hunger to belong is not merely a desire to be attached to something. It is rather sensing that great transformation and discovery become possible when belonging is sheltered and true. &ndash...
Fostering Independence For Salt Lake County’s Older Generations
Andrea GarrySalt Lake County Aging Services is the local Area Agency on Aging (AAA). These agencies were set up across the country beginning in 1965 by with the passage of the Older American’s Act. Aging...
April is Parkinson’s Awareness Month
Utah Chapter of American Parkinson Disease AssociationApril is Parkinson’s Awareness Month. Many of the residents at the retirement and assisted living community where I work suffer from Parkinson’s Disease. This doesn’t mean...