JCA Blog / By JCA / May 7, 2026
By Molly Snow, AARP Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) is the only federal job-training initiative that exclusively serves older workers with the goal of helping them transition to employment outside the program. To qualify, participants must be at least 55, unemployed, live in a county served by SCSEP and be considered low income. …
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JCA Blog / By JCA / May 5, 2026
New tools tailored for use in senior living communities allow for shared experiences and social bonding. by Charley Locke for the New York Times Loneliness and isolation have serious ramifications for older adults. Studies have shown that social disconnection can have the same impact on mortality as smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day. This kind of …
JSSA and Jewish Council for the Aging (JCA) Announce Transformational Merger to Expand Services for Older Adults Across the Greater Washington Region Media Contact: Julie Perlstein Director of Marketing, JSSA 301-610-8311 Rockville, MD — April 30, 2026 — In a bold step to meet the rapidly evolving needs of an aging population, JSSA and the …
JCA Blog / By JCA / April 28, 2026
by Camille Bugayong for BU Today When Maria Jaynes picks up the phone in her senior living facility in Reno, Nev., she is eager to chat. Today, it’s 78 degrees in Reno, she tells me. The 73-year-old has been looking forward to speaking with the “Zoomers,” who have been calling since biotech start-up Matter Neuroscience …
JCA Blog / By JCA / April 24, 2026
by Courtney E. Martin When I moved my family of four—husband and two daughters, seven and nine at the time—in with my parents, I knew that I was taking on a lot. I also knew that I wasn’t alone. In fact, one in four adults in their 40s and 50s is doing “sandwich generation caregiving.” …
JCA Blog / By JCA / April 22, 2026
By Feliz Selga for Specialized Community Healthcare Caring for an aging loved one comes with many questions, and one of the biggest is about cost. Many families ask, “Will Medicare help pay for home health care?” The truth is, it can, but only under certain circumstances. Understanding these details can make a world of difference …
By Paul Wynn, AARP Working caregivers struggle to juggle The pressures in the workplace are mounting amid a rapidly expanding caregiving population: An estimated 63 million Americans now provide care, nearly a 50 percent increase since 2015. About seven in 10 family caregivers in the United States hold jobs, according to the latest Caregiving in the …
JCA Blog / By JCA / April 15, 2026
Volunteering from Generation to Generation Doris Brott spent her career teaching first graders, but when it came time to retire, she couldn’t imagine spending her days away from young learners. So about 20 years ago, she joined the late Austin Heyman’s Dialogues Across the Ages program. That program is now part of the Jewish Council for …
JCA Blog / By JCA / April 13, 2026
from NCOA Setting up a budget—one that includes specific savings goals and a plan for achieving them—is an essential practice for every older adult. Still, even when you have strong money management skills and a nest egg too, factors outside your control, such as sudden rent increases, can change at any time. And that can …
JCA Blog / By JCA / April 10, 2026
How AI exposes your thought process as you age—for better or worse by Tom West for his Substack With so much having been written on AI, I’ve hesitated to weigh in on how it impacts an aging population. But as an advisor and somebody who cares deeply about his senior clients, I’d like to carve …
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