Ever more Americans are using digital cameras to keep an eye on elderly relatives who live in nursing homes. This surveillance may violate patients’ privacy and demoralize their caretakers.
Articles on Elder care
Displaying 21 - 26 of 26 articles
Why choice should not be the most important factor in elder care.
The demographics, which include declining numbers of adult children free to step up and potentially fewer immigrants, suggest that this big problem society faces will get bigger.
Energy companies routinely cut off service to vulnerable people who experience energy poverty. Here’s how to fix the problem.
Millions of American children are being cared for by grandparents. To honor Grandparents Day we ask: What are the social and health impacts of this often unexpected turn of events?
Medicaid, a state-federal entitlement program that people associate only with the poor, pays for care for more than six in 10 nursing home residents. That could be you, or someone you love.
Top contributors
-
Associate professor, Queen's University, Ontario
-
Professor of Health Law and Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University
-
Professor of Practice in Strategy and Innovation, University of Pennsylvania
-
Professor of Economics, University of Michigan
-
Associate Dean and Chief Academic Officer for Nursing and Director, Project Healthy Grandparents, Byrdine F. Lewis College of Nursing and Health Professions, Georgia State University
-
Kenneth D. Lewis Distinguished Chair in Interdisciplinary Health Studies, Georgia State University
-
PhD student, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia
-
Research Impact Officer, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin
-
Professor of Politics, Religion and Civil Society, University of Pennsylvania
-
Professor of Nonprofit Management, University of Pennsylvania
-
Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Cornell University
-
PhD Student in History, University of Cambridge
-
Associate Professor of Medicine and Geriatrics, University of Virginia
-
Assistant Research Scientist at the Survey Research Center, University of Michigan
-
Assistant Professor, Department of Information Science, Cornell University