The Community Alliance in Bejjing, China works towards accomplishing elderly care goals and is shifting from family-based care for the elderly, to community-based.

A student in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology who developed a new technology aimed at monitoring balance and preventing falls.

The United Way in Ann Arbor, MI has identified and adopted 5 types of human services they would provide funding for, and aging in place is one of them.

Some new thinking is making it’s way into the ranks of the fourth largest philanthropic organization in the U.S. … You can provide better care for less people.

To some, respite care is care provided in the home; to others, care provided at a facility. Regardless of definition, respite care gives relief for caregivers.

Six months after her father passed away, a daughter and her family make the decision to move her elderly mother in with them. They decided to get the help from a CAPS certified contractor to help them make modifications to their home for her.

If you are preparing to, or considering, providing some level of care for your parents (either live-in or aging in place), here are a couple of good articles to read.

In an article from Your Money, 1.7 million Britons are assisting their elderly parents with day-to-day expenses and managed care.

Researchers have taken proven robotic technology and put it to use in caring for elderly people aging in place. It does medicine reminders, virtual visits, grocery shopping and even dials 911.

There is no way to really give an appropriate introduction for Carrol O’Dell. Her writing is incredibly readable. Her stories draw you in. Her advice and insight are uncanny. She’s one of a kind.