Eldercare: Articles

Feb 17 2012

Understaffing: The Culprit Behind U.S. Nursing Home Abuse

By Amber Paley | Posted in CJS Forum, Featured Post | Feb-17-2012
In recent years, the prevalence of elder abuse has slowly come to light. Still, with so many abused elders not coming forward, the numbers the ...
Jan 17 2012

Controlling Your Own Life, Despite Age and Ailment

By Zachary Gappa | Posted in Blog | Jan-17-2012
The New York Times shares an inspirational story about Verona Peters, a 67 year old woman who takes 300 pills a month to deal with ...
Jan 17 2012

How Vulture Capitalism Endangers America’s Elderly

By Ken Connor | Posted in Featured Post, Ideas in Action | Jan-17-2012
GOP presidential hopefuls – most notably Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry – have been attempting to derail Golden Boy Mitt Romney's campaign momentum by attacking ...
Jan 12 2012

Adapting to an Aging Population

By Zachary Gappa | Posted in Blog | Jan-12-2012
Elder abuse shelters are up and coming.  Unfortunately, as our aging population expands rapidly, we will not have the resources to care for them as ...
Jan 09 2012

The Future of Health Care in America, Pt. 1

By CJS Staff | Posted in Audio, Featured Multimedia, Multimedia | Jan-09-2012
Ken Connor discusses the all-too-common errors and difficulties of modern health care.
Jan 09 2012

The Future of Health Care in America, Pt. 2

By CJS Staff | Posted in Audio, Featured Multimedia, Multimedia | Jan-09-2012
Ken Connor discusses the all-too-common errors and difficulties of modern health care.
Dec 14 2011

Good Eldercare is About the People

By Zachary Gappa | Posted in Blog | Dec-14-2011
The Detroit Free Press featured a great article on eldercare yesterday.  The reporters analyzed nursing homes, and found little correlation between the "look" of a ...
Nov 23 2011

Ubiquitous Elder Abuse in England

By Zachary Gappa | Posted in Blog | Nov-23-2011
There are many positives in caring for the elderly in their own homes (or the homes of their family members), but the danger of elder ...
Nov 22 2011

The Regret of the Boomers

By Zachary Gappa | Posted in Blog | Nov-22-2011
Our Chairman, Ken Connor, has been warning for years about the coming baby boomer bubble.  Too many boomers getting old at the same time with ...
Oct 25 2011

The Difficulties of Long Term Care

By Zachary Gappa | Posted in Blog | Oct-25-2011
Forbes contributor Howard Gleckman reports on another bad sign for our aging population: The costs of long term care are rising quickly (click ...

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