assisted living facilities where older adults may have their own room or apartment with limited services typically including congregate meals and housekeeping, or a combination. These models provide only partial versions of aging in place. The fear of having to move, even to a different part of ...
Oasis Senior Support Living Inc.: A Canadian Model for Aging in Place Oasis Senior Supportive Living Inc. (Oasis) is a Canadian model for aging in place that combines health and supportive community services for adults 65 and older within naturally occurring retirement communities (NORCs)....
Most older adults prefer to age in place, and technologies, including Internet of things (IoT), Ambient/Active Assisted Living (AAL) robots and other artificial intelligence (AI), can support independent living. However, a top-down design process creates mismatches between technologies and older ...
"When you've never done it before, and you are only going to do it once, you're sort of flying by the seat of your pants," said Leigh Gerstenberger, in his late 60s and retired from a career in financial services. "I spent a lot of time talking to people ahead of me in the ...
His hair was white, and he had an unsteady shuffle as he walked near me. I got out of the car and stared at him like he was a stranger while nodding my head. He gave me a big smile that was warmer than anyone I had ever met. I was in China for the first time in my life ...
In welfare states where health and care services are heavily subsidized, this shift toward less resource-intensive solutions generally refers to options that maintain a high quality of life for older people while simultaneously preventing or delaying the need to relocate to a nursing home or becoming...
Alterations in metabolism, sleep patterns, body composition and hormone status are all key features of aging. While the hypothalamus is a well-conserved brain region that controls these homeostatic and survival-related behaviors, little is known about the intrinsic features of hypothalamic aging. Here...
We also thank Anthony Lee of the North America Financial Services Practice, and the superb staffs of McKinsey's North American Knowledge Center, the McKinsey Knowledge Center in India, and the production and technical service...
I left my business card at an aging services event recently – and someone at the company was assigned to do something with it. Their approach, contact me through a robo-call to enroll me in their message broadcasting service that was not appropriate for my type of business. The ...
One popular comment about this is when they change the layout of the grocery store. Many people agreed, sharing their experiences. For instance, someone said, “Thegrocery store near memoved things around, and suddenly the peanut butter was with the ketchup instead of near the jams and jellies...