For Senior Care, Sometimes It Does Take A Village

Main Category: Seniors / Aging
Article Date: 10 Feb 2010 - 3:00 PDT

email icon email to a friend   printer icon printer friendly   write icon opinions  

Current Article Ratings:

Patient / Public:3 and a half stars

3.5 (2 votes)

Healthcare Prof:not yet rated

In an article for Kaiser Health News and The Washington Post, Howard Gleckman writes about elder villages. "Nearly three years ago, Harry Rosenberg and his wife, Barbara Filner, met with nine of their neighbors about starting an aging-in-place "village" in the Burning Tree community of Bethesda, Maryland. The idea: If neighbors could help one another with basic services such as transportation and simple home maintenance and with friendly visits, people could stay in their homes longer as they aged" (Gleckman, 2/9). Read entire article.

This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org.

© Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.



Article adapted by Medical News Today from original press release.
Visit our seniors / aging section for the latest news on this subject.
There are no references listed for this article.
Please use one of the following formats to cite this article in your essay, paper or report:

MLA
Kaiser. "For Senior Care, Sometimes It Does Take A Village." Medical News Today. MediLexicon, Intl., 10 Feb. 2010. Web.
16 Feb. 2012. <http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/178707.php>

APA
Kaiser. (2010, February 10). "For Senior Care, Sometimes It Does Take A Village." Medical News Today. Retrieved from
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/178707.php.

Please note: If no author information is provided, the source is cited instead.


Seniors / Aging

Most Popular Articles



Follow Our Seniors News On Twitter

Follow Us On Twitter
Get the latest news for this category delivered straight to your Twitter account. Simply visit our Seniors / Aging Twitter account and select the 'follow' option.



View list of all 'What Is...' articles »