Loneliness is here as well. The National Association of Long-Term Care Volunteers mission: recruit & train Companion volunteers for people living in care homes. #loneliness #MondayMotivation #compassion ACHCA NAAP Info The John A. Hartford Foundation The Eden Alternative American Society Aging Gerontological Society of America (GSA) LeadingAge California Pennsylvania Health Care Association leadingpa National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care

Check out the #Aging Well in Asia: Asian Development Policy Report 2024. This report examines the four dimensions of #wellbeing in older people in Asia and provides recommendations for the policy domains related to this population's aging.

Read here: adb.org/publications/a…

The Golden Bachelor's surprise divorce shows us that marriage may not be the best path for older couples. Boston University BU Center for Innovation in Social Science Gerontology Research CCF Boston University Sociology PAA

#ParkinsonsAwarenessMonth2024 in The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Structural Network Efficiency Predicts Conversion to Incident Parkinsonism in Patients With Cerebral Small Vessel Disease #ABCsofPD Oxford Journals Gerontology Research doi.org/10.1093/gerona…

Please join us for this webinar on aging & climate change! ASA SALC PAA NIA Division of Behavioral and Social Research Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Gerontology Research BU Center for Innovation in Social Science Boston University BU Earth & Environment Boston University Sociology @ia4phs

#ParkinsonsAwarenessMonth2024 in Medical Sciences section of The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Longitudinal evolution and plasma biomarkers for excessive daytime sleepiness in Parkinson's disease #ABCsofPD Oxford Journals Gerontology Research doi.org/10.1093/gerona…

Minimum nursing home staffing rule will soak up lots of attention today but this new Medicaid rule 'requiring providers to allocate at least 80% of home- and community-based payments to direct care worker pay' is HUGE too.

Don't miss Generations United's webinar Intergenerational Solutions to Combatting Ageism Across the Lifespan happening this week on April 24!

🚨Final nursing home minimum staffing rule will be released later today!
Preview: '...mandate requires that all nursing homes...provide a total of at least 3.48 hours of nursing care per resident per day, including defined periods from RNs and from NAs.'
cnn.com/2024/04/22/pol…

We need more geriatricians, and this pre-med program shows promise to foster pathways and interest in this specialty. #Geriatrics #GeroNews #GeroTwitter

Submit your work today to this #JGSS call for papers for the forthcoming special issue on #AI -driven measurement in gerontological research. #AgingResearch #GeroNews #GeroResearch Oxford University Press Oxford Academic Oxford Journals OUP Medicine

#ParkinsonsAwarenessMonth2024 in Psychological Sciences section of The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Purpose in Life and Its Association to Parkinsonism #ABCsofPD Oxford Journals Gerontology Research doi.org/10.1093/geronb…

#ParkinsonsAwarenessMonth2024 in Biological Sciences section of The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Evolution and Predictive Role of Plasma Alzheimer’s
Disease-related Pathological Biomarkers in Parkinson’s Disease #ABCsofPD Oxford Journals Gerontology Research doi.org/10.1093/gerona…'

A cool resource on how older adults are portrayed in English literature.

If you've read/liked Charles Dickens' works, then this blog series may be of interest to y'all. And if you haven't, check out the analysis of older adult characters anyway. Integrate it into a lesson😉.

#ParkinsonsAwarenessMonth2024 in Psychological Sciences section of The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Perceived Discrimination in Health Care for LGBTQIA+
People Living With Parkinson’s Disease #ABCsofPD Oxford Journals Gerontology Research Jason D Flatt, PhD, MPH doi.org/10.1093/geronb…

#ParkinsonsAwarenessMonth2024 in The Gerontologist: Evaluating the Dyadic Benefits of Early-Phase Behavioral Interventions: An Exemplar Using Data from Couples Living with Parkinson’s Disease #ABCsofPD Oxford Journals Gerontology Research doi.org/10.1093/geront…

📅 Mark your calendars, the next CAPS seminar is less than two weeks away! Mateo Farina, PhD will be giving a talk on early life origins of cognitive and biological aging! More info below ⬇️

Note: this is a HYBRID event!
💻: asi.syr.edu/events/caps-se…
🧍: 312 Lyman Hall, Syracuse Univ