Caregiving Archives

10.16.2018 Dance at a nursing home with an older woman reaching for a blue balloon

The Way We Do Things Around Here

Cultural change in nursing homes requires consistency, institutional commitment, local champions, and focusing on the positive.

Guest Author Christine W. Hartmann

09.17.2018 A single lit candle

Advance Care Planning among African Americans: What is <strike>Wrong</strike> Strong?

We must carefully avoid making assumptions about patient preferences regarding advance care planning based on race or other cultural attributes.

Guest Author Justin Sanders

04.09.2018 Nursing home corridor

Will You Still Need Me?

Nursing homes aren't for other people, they're for all of us. Here are three steps everyone can take to improve the image and reality of nursing home care.

Guest Author Christine W. Hartmann

04.04.2018 a man wearing a rainbow hat and a red shirt with his arm around another man

Caring for the LGBTQ+ and Elderly

To many LGBTQ+ older adults, navigating health care means returning to the closet, hiding their identities and relationships. Cultural compliance training helps health care providers and patients examine biases and reduce discrimination.

Fellow Sampada Nandyala

09.21.2017 Graph showing reasons why men and women stay out of the workforce

Female Caregivers and Workforce Nonparticipation

Research shows that an overwhelming majority of Americans out of the workforce are women with a high school education or less, and about half of these women cite caregiving as the reason.

Fellow Madeline Bishop

01.06.2017 A group of children looking at bubbles in the air

The American Child Care Crisis

The child care crisis impacts many families, but poor families face the most significant barriers to high quality child care, putting their children at risk for the detrimental effects of low quality care and missing out on the beneficial effects of high quality care.

Fellow Maggie Thomas

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