Caregiver Awareness

Daughter feeding elderly mother with soup.

Next month, November, is National Family Caregivers Month. The goal is to recognize and honor family caregivers across the country. There are more than 65 million family caregivers (a 50% increase sin...

Shared Housing

Two older women cooking together

Shared housing is when two or more people share a living space for mutual benefit. There’s the owner or renter of a property and a person who moves in after agreeing to terms and conditions, whi...

The Importance of Independence

Sparklers and American Flag.

July brings the 4th of July, which is Independence Day. Congressmen voted for independence on July 2, 1776, then spent two days editing Thomas Jefferson’s draft of the text. They officially declared i...

Aging Alone

Portrait of smiling senior woman at home

Aging alone consists of individuals without children or partners, focusing on trends in fertility and family size. Clearly, I am interested in this since I am aging alone myself. There are, however, o...