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Finding support and care - that's just one reason Keeping It REAL Caregiving is embarking on a new partnership with a fellow caregiver dedicated to helping others! In this Sunday Coffee Chat, meet Julie Cook Downing. She is the mastermind behind Caregivers' Comfort Creations. That is a platform offering support services and products that are ...

The Columbia Aging Center and the Columbia Journalism School will host the 2022 virtual Robert N. Butler-Jack Rosenthal Age Boom Academy: "Caregiving and Our Longer Lives – The $500 Billion Question" over four two-hour online sessions on October 13, 14, 20 and 21, 2022 (exact session times at ageboom.columbia.edu). The deadline for journalists to apply ...

COURTESY AARP: Next Year May See Nursing Home Staffing Requirements, Sen. Barker Says By Larry Lipman , July 12, 2022 08:54 AM Despite the General Assembly’s rejection this year of efforts to set minimum staffing requirements in nursing homes, state Sen. George Barker said such efforts may finally succeed next year. “As long as we ...

Equity in Aging Advisory Committee hears from REAL caregivers. This event is a testament to the power of our collective voices. California Department of Aging   I am honored and humbled to have had the opportunity to join the California Department of Aging and the Equity in Aging Advisory Committee. My role was as ...

Planning ahead for almost anything! That is truly the mindset one should enter once you become a family caregiver. In this episode of Keeping It REAL Caregiving Sunday Coffee Chat & Support Session (for June 12, 2022), your host, Julia Yarbough covers a variety issues impacting family caregivers. The one-hour online and virtual session ...

Coping with loss and bereavement Sunday coffee chat and support hour (part two). Keeping It REAL Caregiving strives to bring you various experts in the field of aging to offer REAL talk about REAL issues. In this session, we discuss the reality facing many: losing a loved one and how to cope with bereavement. In ...

Keeping It REAL Caregiving and its founder and publisher, Julia Yarbough, has been selected as a 2022 American Society on Aging ASA Rise Fellow.

Managing self care, our money and more! It's one of the episodes in the Keeping It REAL Caregiving video series Sunday Coffee Chat & Support Hour! There are so many topics that intersect with family caregiving. There are also hundreds of women and men who are living the experience - or - work in fields ...

Intergenerational friendship Alaska to California is more than just a blog post or video interview. This segment truly drives to the heart of what it means to forge bonds across age groups, distance and time. Everyone has a story   I've always believed there is a story (and reason) behind each person we cross ...

A law enforcement leader puts family first - Keeping it REAL Caregiving Celebrates Black History. And we're doing so more than just one month, but rather all year. In this episode, meet a man who has a challenging career in law enforcement. But, this son says being a family caregiver to his mother may be ...