Topics families ask about most — aging at home, home safety, caregiving, and everyday wellbeing. Each explainer describes what public health and aging organizations publish, with links to the original material.
Featured · Home Safety
Falls are the leading cause of injury among older adults in the United States, and public health agencies aim much of their guidance at the home. This explainer summarizes how that guidance is organized and where the original material lives.
Surveys of older adults consistently find that most would prefer to stay in their own home as they age. Aging in place is the term used for that preference and for the mix of services built around it.
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Most long-term care in the United States is provided by relatives and friends who are not paid for it. Research and public programs describe both what that role involves and where support for it is available.
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Home safety checklists published by public agencies and aging organizations follow a similar room-by-room structure. Knowing that structure makes it easier to read a home the way a checklist does.
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Loneliness and social isolation are now treated as health-related issues in public health literature. This is how that research frames the topic and the kinds of programs that respond to it.
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Prescription routines are one of the most common parts of daily life in later adulthood. Public resources describe how medication burden grows and the tools households use to keep track.
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Pennsylvania delivers much of its long-term care outside institutions through a set of Medicaid waiver programs and state-funded services. Here is how that system is organized and who decides who is eligible.
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