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Michigan's most vulnerable rescued by kinship caregivers

Hayley Harding Sarah Rahal

November 10, 2024 |

The Detroit News |

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Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

Various programs and organizations, like Grandparents Raising Grandchildren and Grandparents Parenting Again, are helping seniors navigate and understand kinship care, providing them with guidance and support to transition to caring for loved ones.

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Art therapy helps family caregivers cope with hard times

Eleanore Catolico

March 05, 2024 |

New York & Michigan Solutions Journalism Collaborative |

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Response Location: United States, Pontiac, Michigan

The Art Experience provides free art therapy classes for caregivers, offering a space for them to gather for respite and creative self-expression. At the classes, caregivers learn mindfulness, self-care practices and meet one-on-one with certified art therapists to discuss their individual situations and learn ways to cope with stress.

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How an area agency on aging helped bridge the gap for in-home care

Katie Ellington Serrao

March 03, 2024 |

Richland Source |

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Response Location: United States, Mansfield, Ohio

The Ohio District 5 Area Agency on Aging hires state-tested nursing assistants (STNA) to act as community care specialists and provide in-home care to seniors. This care provides respite for unpaid family caregivers and allows seniors to continue living independently in their homes. In 2023 alone, the program served 130 residents, providing 2,371 hours of in-home care.

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Music cafe provides refuge to dementia patients, caregivers as recollections dim

Eleanore Catolico

February 12, 2024 |

New York & Michigan Solutions Journalism Collaborative |

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Response Location: United States, West Falls, New York

The Musical Memories Cafe is a social gathering space for people with Alzheimer’s and dementia, as well as their caregivers. Participants gather to enjoy music, seek refuge outside of their homes and get access to peer support and health resources. There are more than 1,000 memory cafes operating around the world, both in-person and virtually.

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Hurt and homeless with no place to heal: Could a successful Oregon program be a model for Clark County?

Alexis Weisend

December 23, 2023 |

The Columbian |

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Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

Central City Concern’s Evergreen Crossing provides 90 respite beds, as well as a primary care clinic to help those recovering from addiction or other illnesses avoid homelessness. People staying in the facility can recover in a stable environment, undergo further treatment, receive mental health care and work with a case manager to find a job and secure housing.

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Caregivers are struggling. Virtual support may help.

Brian Sharp

November 21, 2023 |

New York & Michigan Solutions Journalism Collaborative |

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Response Location: United States, Greece, New York

Trualta is an online resource that provides free training, tips and other resources for caregivers of loved ones with dementia. The platform is available in 32 states and has been used by more than 12,000 caregivers since it was rolled out in May 2022. Studies have found caregivers who use the app feel more confident in providing care and overall less burnt out.

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Colorado is paying parents to take care of children with disabilities, a pandemic benefit that's sticking around

Jennifer Brown

October 17, 2023 |

The Colorado Sun |

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Response Location: United States, Colorado

During the pandemic, caregivers stopped entering people’s homes, so Medicaid restructured to pay parents to provide care for their children with disabilities rather than hired help. About 1,200 families across the state signed up for the program, making $15 an hour for up to 10 hours a week teaching those with disabilities “homemaker” tasks like cooking and cleaning.

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LA SED Senior Center emphasizes wellness support for Southwest Detroit seniors, caregivers as Latino population and funding needs rise

Paula Anderanin Georgi-Ann Bargamian Lucas Resetar

August 30, 2023 |

New Michigan Media |

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Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

Latin Americans for Social and Economic Development (LA SED) provides culturally relevant programming and services for the area’s predominantly Latino senior community. The Center offers a safe space for seniors to converse in their native language, take English classes, connect with the community, exercise classes, and receive necessary care like vaccinations, food distribution and other social programming and wellness-focused care.

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Everyone dies. End-of-life doulas can help us process it

Olivia Belanger

August 26, 2023 |

Sentinel Source (The Keene Sentinel) |

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Response Location: United States, Monadnock Region, New Hampshire

End-of-life doulas, or death doulas, are non-medical aides that help guide people through the process of dying. Death doulas provide various forms of support to dying people and their families like death planning and listening to grieving loved ones. The National End-of-Life Doula Alliance currently has more than 1,500 members worldwide, a 300-person increase from 2019 when the nonprofit was formed.

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'Achieve your dreams at home'

Nora Mabie

July 22, 2023 |

Indian Country Today |

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Response Location: Blackfeet Nation, United States, Browning, Montana

In 2019, Montana’s Blackfeet Community College launched its first four-year bachelor’s in nursing degree program with the goal of helping to address care shortages in the local Indigenous community. The program’s first graduate, who received her degree in 2023 and is now working as a long-term care nurse, said the college’s relationship-based approach helped her stick with her studies even through the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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