Seniors For Living

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The Administration for Community Living, or ACL, is a brand new government agency dedicated to long-term care and senior support, according to this news brief posted on McKnights Long Term Care News & Assisted Living.

While it may seem that ...

Caring for a senior parent, friend or relative is a process rife with decision-making: Should I quit my job to provide care full-time at home? Would Dad do better in assisted living? Can we bring in home care to help ...

“2012 is going to be a very interesting year for assisted living, and one of the primary reasons is because it’s changing so rapidly,” says Mike Shepard, chair of the National Center for Assisted Living’s board of directors.

Based ...

Last week, over 3,000 elder care professionals and advocates gathered in our nation’s capitol for the 2012 Annual Conference of the American Society on Aging (ASA). For five days, attendees representing a host of disciplines within the fields of aging, healthcare, ...

“A Safe and Healthy Home for Everyone” is the theme for this month’s call to service from an organization called Rebuilding Together. Across the country, an impressive army of 70,000 volunteers will work towards the completion of nearly 4,000 home and ...

The MetLife Foundation and Generations United just announced the communities who have demonstrated excellence in building and creating strong intergenerational support systems: from Texas to Virginia, these winners were applauded by members of Congress too, at a special event on ...

“Never Too Old to Play!” is this year’s theme for Older Americans Month, an annual tradition that began in 1963 and is sponsored by the Administration on Aging (part of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services). In ...

In my little city community, I am fortunate to have great Vietnamese and Thai food within walking distance, and a Little League field and park for the kids around the corner. Our neighborhood has decent sidewalks, so it's easy -- ...

In recent years, it seems that funding for new or existing programs supporting seniors has been reduced or eliminated altogether. Finally, some good news from the Assisted Living Federation of America: CMS (the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) is ...