Adopting Healthy Lifestyles at Midlife
This study suggests that the sometimes-piecemeal approach to wellness and behavior change may not be doing enough. Efforts to increase health and wellness must focus on fostering comprehensive lifestyle changes that target each habit known to contribute to health and longevity. For full story, click here.
On Happiness
Research shows that happiness can and does spread from person to person within social networks. For full story, click here.
Advantages of Volunteering Differ by Type of Activity
Researchers analyzed 13 different volunteer programs and found that while older volunteers report a variety of benefits to the people they served, themselves, and their families, the aspects of the volunteer program had a drastic impact on who reported these benefits. For full story, click here.
The Home Environment & Disability in Older Adults
The home environment influences the daily functioning and physical abilities of older adults. In fact, the relationship between the home and disability has become an important public health problem. For full story, click here.
Residential Modification & Physical Functioning in Older Adults
New research confirms that home modifications are capable of reducing the risk of physical decline. For full story, click here.
The Needs of the Frail Elderly in Disaster Response
Emergency management activities must be extended beyond traditional personnel. Authors of this article advocate for “age responsive” actions that will identify groups of people most at risk for being unable to care for themselves during an emergency situation. For full story, click here.
Information Technologies Bring Fundamental Changes to Patient-Provider Interactions
Researchers focus their attention on the role that new electronic personal health records (PHRs) will play in enhancing the quality of health care and empowering the patient’s position in making care decisions. For full story, click here.
Report from the National Nursing Assistant Survey
Researchers recently published an overview of the first National Nursing Assistant Survey. Among other items of interest, the survey found that the years of experience that certified nursing assistants had were not translated into meaningfully higher wages. For full story, click here.
Restorative Care, Culture Change & Long-Term Care
Researchers conducted a study to test the effectiveness of a 12-month restorative care program. The study demonstrated the important role that culture change interventions can play in increasing care staff morale, knowledge, and care skills. For full story, click here.
LEAP into Culture Change for Long-Term Care & Senior Living
Mather LifeWays Institute on Aging will soon release results from the first year of the 360° Aging In the Workplace Survey. This report specifically outlines major findings in the Long-Term Care labor force. For full story, click here.
For a Limited Time Only: Free Workshops on Falls Reduction
The Illinois Department of Public Health awarded a grant to Mather LifeWays Institute on Aging to provide falls reduction train-the-trainer workshops for nursing home staff in the state of Illinois. There is no charge for the eight-hour program.. For full story, click here.
Participate in Research to Enhance Disaster Preparedness in Senior Living & Long-Term Care
Mather LifeWays Institute on Aging is submitting grant proposals to develop products that would enable long-term care and senior living organizations to provide better care for older adult residents in a disaster or emergency. For full story, click here.
| Contributors | |
| Richard Shank | Editor |
| Kim Deng | Staff Writer |
| Perry Edelman | Staff Writer |
| Cate O'Brien | Staff Writer |
| Jayne Schaefer | Staff Writer |
| Andrew Small | Staff Writer |
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