Blog / By JCA / December 26, 2023
by Catherine E. Shoichet for CNN Birthday cards calling someone “over the hill” or making fun of them for getting older are so common that many people don’t think twice about them. But Sara Breindel is hoping you will. Breindel is co-director of a Denver-based anti-ageism campaign dubbed Changing the Narrative. And when it comes …
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Blog / By JCA / December 21, 2023
compiled for ProPublica by by Ruth Talbot, Lena V. Groeger and Charles Ornstein, November 2023 ProPublica has compiled a searchable database of nursing home ratings called Nursing Home Inspect. The database uses data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Information on deficiencies comes from a home’s last three inspection cycles, or roughly three years in total. COVID-19 …
Blog / By JCA / December 19, 2023
by Howard Gleckman, Immediate Past President of JCA There is a seemingly endless debate about whether Americans have sufficient savings for retirement (see here and here). The answer is that many do. But tens of millions do not. Overall retirement assets have grown enormously in recent years– to $36 trillion, despite a terrible stock market in 2022. But looking …
Blog, KC Blog / By JCA / December 8, 2023
by Trina Walton for the Beacon Financial crime against older Americans is a growing problem. Victims of fraud who are 80 and older lose an average of $39,200 every year. People living with dementia are at an especially high risk of becoming victims. As their memory and other thinking skills decline, people with dementia may …
Blog / By JCA / December 5, 2023
via the Takoma Park Police Department December 4, 2023 The first full week of December is Older driver Safety Awareness Week. Older Driver Safety Awareness Week highlights the vital role that mobility and transportation play to keep older adults active in their communities. The observance recommends that during the first week in December, loved ones …
Blog / By JCA / November 29, 2023
by Mayo Clinic staff, from The Beacon Seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, is a type of depression that typically occurs each year during fall and winter. If you’re like most people with SAD, your symptoms start in the fall and continue into the winter months, sapping your energy and making you feel moody. It is …
Blog / By JCA / November 28, 2023
by Allison Aubrey for NPR Morning Edition An analysis released Tuesday from scientists behind a research initiative called the BIG JOY Project finds that people who commit daily “micro-acts” of joy experience about a 25% increase in emotional well-being over the course of a week. “We’re really excited,” says Emiliana Simon-Thomas, a BIG JOY project leader, and science director …
Blog / By JCA / November 22, 2023
JCA has presented three awards for 2023. Each award winner has made a valuable and valued contribution to JCA and the community we serve. Jack Berezny, JCA Controller received the Ruth Breslow-Young Staff Award of Excellence Award in recognition of his extraordinary service to the JCA’s mission. In his nearly 14 years of service as …
by Kate Ashford for the Beacon [Ed. Note: We are currently in the thick of Medicare’s annual “open enrollment period,” which runs from October 15 to December 7 every year. That’s the period during which you can a) switch from Original Medicare to a Medicare Advantage plan, or vice versa, b) join, drop or switch …
Forget National Caregivers Month. Think About What Family Caregivers Need by Howard Gleckman, JCA immediate past president Welcome to November, National Family Caregivers Month, one of those Hallmark Card-like designations that politicians grant when they can’t, or won’t, actually act to help people. But instead of getting frustrated over what Congress isn’t doing, it seems like …
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