JCA Blog / By JCA / August 27, 2025
by Howard Gleckman for his blog The typical family caregiver is a 50-something woman who spends 27 hours a week caring for an aging parent who has two or more serious medical conditions, and is doing so with little outside assistance, according to a new survey by the National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP. While …
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JCA Blog, KC Blog / By JCA / August 26, 2025
Worried About Your Memory? Here Are 5 Questions to Ask a Cognitive Neurologist from University of Utah Health As we age, it’s normal to have concerns about our cognitive health, especially for those who have a family history of Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia. Nicholas Frost, MD, PhD, and Christine Cliatt Brown, MD, neurologists at …
JCA Blog / By JCA / August 25, 2025
Bridging the Generations Through Literacy Watching reticent students progress into active class participants, improve their grades, and gain a love for reading and math are what 320 active JCA’s Heyman Interages Center® relish. Ann Jackman began volunteering in 2013 and has been guiding students ever since. “I love the fact that you can develop a …
JCA Blog / By JCA / August 22, 2025
Keeping Older Adults Connected to Their Communities JCA’s 10 drivers and nine buses are busy, traveling five days a week to and from Montgomery County senior recreation centers. They also transport residents from several area assisted living facilities on shopping trips. Together, JCA buses traveled the equivalent of almost seven times around the equator during …
Navigating Medicare with the State Health Insurance Assistance Program Rachel Schmidt has helped seniors navigate the Medicare system for many years during her career with the federal government. When she retired, she turned to Jewish Council for the Aging’s SHIP – State Health Insurance Assistance Program – to continue assisting. She, along with 14 other SHIP volunteers, …
JCA Blog / By JCA / August 20, 2025
My relative, 80, was about to be scammed out of $40,000. Here’s how I stopped it. He was drawn in by a very sophisticated operation, and it took a lot of logic to convince him it wasn’t real By Beth Pinsker for Market Watch The call came in the middle of the afternoon when I …
JCA Blog / By JCA / August 15, 2025
Gorlitz Kensington Clubs Provide Meaning and Respite Although many Samuel J. Gorlitz Kensington Clubs (KC) members move on to memory care facilities as their dementia progresses, their caregivers often tell us that their loved one’s membership in the program improved their life and maybe slowed the disease’s progress a bit. JCA’s Kensington Clubs are social-model …
JCA Blog / By JCA / August 13, 2025
Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) Faces an Uncertain Future The Jewish Council for the Aging had to furlough 34 participants in the Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) on July 1, because of a delay in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Labor. For more than 50 years, SCSEP has been the only federal …
JCA Blog / By JCA / August 12, 2025
Plan Ahead With Our Guide to Caregiving and Other Arrangements for Your Golden Years by Suzanne Pollak for the Washington Jewish Week The tables are turning. You’ve guided your children through to adulthood, and now it just may be time to plan for your coming years. No one likes to think they are getting old, …
JCA Blog, KC Blog / By JCA / August 11, 2025
Overuse of digital gadgets harms teenagers, research suggests. But ubiquitous technology may be helping older Americans stay sharp. by Paula Span for the New York Times It started with a high school typing course. Wanda Woods enrolled because her father advised that typing proficiency would lead to jobs. Sure enough, the federal Environmental Protection Agency …
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