"The Future of Living Independently" The International Longevity Center at Mount Sinai reports on this conference about the future of independent living for elders, with a focus on overcoming social isolation, finding the best living arrangements, overhauling the delivery of health care to seniors, and embracing new technology and environmental design.
This report reinforces early findings of the ODP Resident's Study, underwritten by the Richmond Memorial Health Foundation, that four major variables affect Boomers' "feeling of preparedness." These include: managing finances/making sure savings don't run out, affording healthcare, finding the right living arrangements, and remaining/becoming engaged in the community.
Read the report.
Boomer Population to Surge in Metro Suburbs" Baby Boomers are the first suburban generation. With the "aging in place" phenomenon in which Boomers choose to grow old in the communities where they lived, major metropolitan suburbs are expected to "gray" faster than their urban counterparts, notes the Brookings Institution in "Getting Current."
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The graying of suburbia is alive and well in Virginia, as detailed in the Richmond 2030 Plan
presentation (see pages 19-26).
"An Emergency Room Built Specially for Seniors" Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Md. designed an emergency room from the ground up to treat the kinds of conditions -- falls, chronic diseases -- that send seniors to the emergency room. NPR has the story
here.
"Setting the Pace" St. Francis Medical Center in New Jersey decided it often makes sense to deliver health care to seniors outside a nursing home setting. In its Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), seniors live at home but visit the hospital for monitoring, treatment, meals and other activities.
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Meet Linda Nablo, Commissioner, Virginia Department for the Aging; ODP board member.
How Virginia Is Preparing to Ride the Age Wave