Cost of in-home care soars by double digits in just a few years.
2024 What's Next Longevity Venture Summit (online)
2024 Longevity Venture Summit (DC)
WHCoA attracted buzz, hopeful announcements and new offerings. This event was a follow-on to the previous every-decade White House Conferences on Aging -- the most recent of which was the 3-day 2005 White House Conference on Aging. That conference was developed in an economically hopeful time the US -- its focus was on the pending retirement of the baby boom generation. Today, the economy is not sizzling and since 60 is now the new 50, today many of those boomers have not yet retired. Or they've retired from -- or lost -- one job and are now starting a business. The 2005 conference was the first one that had an exhibit hall devoted to technology. This conference was less about a place and more about regional meetings viewings/discussions of the topics and this single day event. However there were a number of tech-related announcements released in conjunction, including:
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Tired of seeing Eldercare Locator as a resource
I'm so tired of seeing the Eldercare Locator touted as an actual resource for finding care. It is extremely hard to use and generates -- at best -- a long, long list of resources. Fine for professionals. Not so fine for consumers. We still have a long way to go in helping consumers sift through content. And, is it just me or is www.medicare.gov/caregivers a broken link?! All of the online materials direct caregivers to resources using this URL which takes you to an error page.
Anne Tumlinson
Link broken!
Anne, you are right! The link is broken and "page not found"
Vadim Cherdak, PhD
From Deborah Crandall via LinkedIn
Anne, yes, I have been hard-pressed to find resources that are helpful, updated and working. It is frustrating as I work in health policy and have struggled to find good resources for my own parents.
Deborah Crandall, J.D., PhD (c)
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Recommend Caregiving.com
I agree with statements concerning the ineffectiveness of resources offered by Government sector. I highly recommend the following website that is owned by a fellow LinkedIn Professional and Member, Denise Brown. http://www.caregiving.com/
Mary Van Everbroeck
Resources overlooked
Mary and Deborah -- Yes! This is the problem. Government resource links are ineffective and even other great resources like Denise's get overlooked when caregivers don't know they are, in fact, caregivers. I am addressing this in my blog next week and am calling out caregiving.com as one of the good ones. You can check it out on http://www.daughterhood.org/. But, the one problem that neither Denise nor I have solved is how to get that list of 66 home care agencies that pop out of the home care finder down to 4 or 5 (I wrote about this last week). Interested in people's thoughts.
Anne Tumlinson