Streaming audio web application provides interfaith spiritual and religious support for individuals in a wide range of healthcare settings Imagine someone for whom you care having round-the-clock access to an individualized audio library of inspirational readings, prayers, sermons, and classes from the religious or spiritual tradition of their choice.  This is the heart of CoroFaith, a streaming audio web application that launched nationally, February 20.  CoroFaith is the latest initiative by audio wellness solutions pioneer Coro Health. CoroFaith has over [...]

Two factors — a sense of dignity and a sense of control — are critical to quality of life for disabled elderly people, according to a new study that also found that most disabled seniors rate their quality of life as “fair to very good.” The two factors were emphasized by 62 disabled seniors (white, black, Hispanic, and Chinese American) who were interviewed by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco. “By [...]

The Assisted Living Federation of America (ALFA) is inviting the public to vote for their favorite artwork as a part of the ALFA Senior Living Art Showcase, a premier art competition for senior living residents. Senior living residents, their families, employees of senior living communities, and members of the general public will help choose a winner by voting on ALFA’s Facebook page, now through February 29,2012. More than 200 residents of assisted living, independent living, and memory care communities submitted [...]

The Virginia Pilot reports that last May, the continuing care retirement community, Harbor’s Edge instituted a policy that prohibited residents in the assisted-living and nursing-care sections from dining in River Terrace or any other dining facilities in the independent wing. Rather, they needed to eat in the dining hall of their own section. Community resident, William Hodges, a former state legislator and senior judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia required a mobility device and lives in assisted living [...]

AGNES (Age Gain Now Empathy System) Overview AGNES is a suit worn by students, product developers, designers, engineers, marketing, planners, architects, packaging engineers, and others to better understand the physical challenges associated with aging. Developed by AgeLab researchers and students, AGNES has been calibrated to approximate the motor, visual, flexibility, dexterity and strength of a person in their mid-70s. AGNES has been used in retail, public transportation, home, community, automobile, workplace and other environments.    A Closer Look Knee and [...]

The David and Barbara B. Hirschhorn Foundation Awards Abilities Network a $30,000 Grant for Low-Income Seniors Abilities Network is pleased to announce that it has received a $30,000 2 year grant from The David and Barbara B. Hirschhorn Foundation, Inc. for its Move Management Program. The grant will be used to provide one-on-one support to low-income seniors in the Baltimore-Metro area to help them navigate through the complicated process of relocation and downsizing to subsidized housing. Abilities Network’s Move Management [...]

Nearly 1 in 20 Americans older than 50 have artificial knees, or more than 4 million people, according to the first national estimate showing how common these replacement joints have become in an aging population. The new estimate comes in an analysis being presented Friday at the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons annual meeting in San Francisco. Doctors know the number of knee replacement operations has surged in the past decade, especially in baby boomers. But until now, there was [...]

Health Commissioner Mary O’Dowd said a state license merely tells the public that a facility meets minimum state standards. Now, in what she said is a first for the nation, New Jersey is partnering with the long-term care industry to promote new and higher quality standards that will single out facilities reaching for a higher bar than what is required to get and keep a state license. Called “Advanced Standing,” this new benchmarking process is designed to elevate quality at [...]

Since 2010, fewer foreign live-in caregivers have been admitted to Canada, partly due to the declining applications by Canadian families who are now required to pay for all recruitment fees incurred and partly a result of Ottawa’s slower processing and tighter screening. Combined with an aging population and working families requiring child care this has led to the rise in “poaching” caregivers and might be a sign of things to come in the United States as aging baby boomers demand [...]