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Over the Threshold: Creating Solutions

Chicago Caregiving

The group originated in 2013 after a single building evicted more than 100 older adults. But what happens when someone living on the street is nearing the end of life? In Salt Lake City, they may end up at The INN Between — a medical respite and end-of-life care facility specifically for unhoused people.

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Career Spotlight: Fighting for justice for older people and those with dementia for 50+ years

The Nurse Break

Faculty restructuring, re-allocation of my Centre’s resources to less successful areas of the faculty, health and family issues accumulated and resulted in my unplanned retirement in 2013. Rewards in end of life care… While working in a nursing home the ambos were attempting to carry a gentleman up the stairs.