Advocacy

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What is Next50? Glad you asked! Next 50 is an endowment. The visionary role and leadership for Kaldes is to build stronger relationships across the aging sector, while also creating an improved aging future for all of us.

Three caregivers step into a video chat... By: Julia Yarbough What if this entire caregiving reality we are moving through was one big joke? How might we approach our day-to-day chores, challenges, successes, and outcomes if we had a comedic mindset and could allow ourselves to laugh more? I wanted to throw that concept ...

American Society on Aging - ASA Rise Fellows Speak Out on Family Caregiving Keeping It REAL Caregiving is honored to speak out on behalf of family caregivers for this American Society on Aging event. This is usually a Members Only Event—ASA RISE Fellows Speak Out on Supporting Family Caregivers - is an exclusive opportunity to ...

It is something many of us may not think much about but it is something that could lead to serious health complications - bed sores! Hear from a professional gerontologists and family caregiver about what you need to know to stay safe.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

KIRC Podcast S2:E1 How one woman helped save her mother's life is a sobering story and reminder for family caregivers. If your loved one (especially an elder) is admitted to the hospital, your role is now that of caregiver and personal advocate. In this episode, we talk with a woman who watched as her ...