Advocacy

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 ...

Sunday Coffee Chat & Support Hour Keeping it REAL Caregiving hosts the first Coffee Chat & Support Hour of 2022! Thank you to all KIRC family members who joined. If you missed it, don't worry - more events such as this will be planned as we move through 2022! You still have time to grab ...

KIRC Podcast S1:E8 What you need to know about long term care coverage gives you some of the basics of this concept. Keeping it REAL Caregiving welcomes Financial Literacy Expert Vickie Frazier-Williams to the program to talk about L.T.C. No, not T.L.C. - tender loving care, but the OTHER combination of the same ...

The Accidental Caregiver with PASSAGES live stream event, held Wednesday, June 16, 2021.         Presented by Keeping it REAL Caregiving creator Julia Yarbough, the program takes participants through a personal journey of family caregiving and some of the lessons learned. Practical Information In this webinar, Julia offers practical and ...

KIRC Podcast S1:E5 Palliative care, what this care entails and how to access this option is a MUST for families to listen to and learn from. In this episode, Keeping it REAL Caregiving host Julia Yarbough is joined by a registered nurse and Palliative care specialist who shares her first-hand knowledge and experience. Nurse ...

By Maudlyne Ihejirika Updated Jun 3, 2021, 4:01pm CDT When Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton’s mother began to forget things, Stratton didn’t know the signs of Alzheimer’s. Her mother was undiagnosed until three years before her death, leading Stratton on a journey culminating with a pioneering bill that makes Illinois the first state to require ...