by Eleanore Catolico | Jul 13, 2024 | Caregiving
Mark Gluck and Glenda Wright offer brain health education at the Newark Housing Authority’s Clubhouse in New Jersey. More than 500 older Black adults from greater Newark have joined the Pathways to Healthy Aging in African Americans program at Rutgers University...
by Eleanore Catolico | Jun 16, 2024 | Caregiving
Kitty Norton moved into the basement of her parents’ home in Oregon to help care for her mother, who had been diagnosed with vascular dementia in 2010. Although Norton’s father, Gary, was the primary caregiver, he struggled, so it took a village to care for Gloria....
by Eleanore Catolico | May 30, 2024 | Caregiving
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer introduced the Caring for MI Family Tax credit in her State of the State address in January. (Kate Kildee / The Detroit News) With the state’s fiscal budget deadline less than two months away, caregiver advocates have been ramping up pressure on...
by Eleanore Catolico | May 16, 2024 | Caregiving
A masked care worker spoon-feeds a bedridden older woman. A son carries his father, a retired Navy SEAL, down a flight of stairs. An Alzheimer’s caregiver sets up a plate of food. These snapshots appear in a trailer for “Caregiving,” a two-hour documentary...
by Eleanore Catolico | Apr 22, 2024 | Caregiving
For four years, Teresa Brancato, has hoisted her husband onto a lift so he can use the bathroom, even though he’s 10 inches taller and outweighs her by more than 100 pounds. Joe Brancato, 76, had a stroke in 2011 and has since used a wheelchair. The former...
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