Helpful Hacks for Researching With Older Adults
Conducting clinical and other types of research with older adults is complex but rewarding if you take appropriate measures to reduce errors and bias.
Continue ReadingConducting clinical and other types of research with older adults is complex but rewarding if you take appropriate measures to reduce errors and bias.
Continue ReadingWe are excited to announce the launch of the 2014 Eden Alternative International Conference website. Check it out and get pumped up for Strike a Chord, Resonate Well-Being in Nashville, the Music City, from April 30 to May 2, 2014! The conference theme highlights the power of the Eden Alternative Domains of Well-Being™ and how they […]
Continue ReadingThe Eden Alternative will participate in a poster session featuring the development of the Well-Being Assessment Tools at the Gerontological Society of America’s 65th Annual Scientific Meeting in San Diego, CA. Frances Wilby, LCSW, PhD, a member of the team that validated the new Eden Alternative Well-Being Assessment Tools, will be presenting the poster on November […]
Continue ReadingFollowing are excerpts from an article with the same title as this post written by Kathleen Lourde that appears in the September issue of Provider Magazine, both the print and on-line versions. G. Allen Power, MD, author of “Dementia Beyond Drugs: Changing the Culture of Care,” proposes a simple yet, for many providers, radical idea: […]
Continue ReadingAt the Eden Alternative we’ve known about the plague of loneliness for a long time. We teach about loneliness, helplessness, and boredom, the three plagues of the human spirit, and the negative effects they can have on Elders and their care partners, robbing them of their well-being and quality of life. Our teaching about loneliness […]
Continue ReadingI would, normally, expect better from the people at “Cambridge Journals.”
However this write up sent me over the edge. It begins…
“A group of 80-year-olds tested for brain and memory function have been found to possess the abilities of people decades younger.”
Continue ReadingSince information about new studies – most of them encouraging — keeps flooding in like a daily, unrelenting hurricane storm surge, we’ve GOT to be making progress in the good fight against cognitive decline, right? Here are four more recent tidbi…
Continue ReadingThe Green House Project has partnered with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s THRIVE (The Research Initiative Valuing Eldercare) collaborative to learn more about the Green House model as well as other models of care. Supported by the Robert Wood Johnson … Continue reading →
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