Older adults on Medicare still pay part of their prescription costs out of pocket. Caregivers see the result at the pharmacy counter, when a parent skips a refill or splits pills to make a bottle last longer. New York State runs a program that covers part of what Medicare does not pay. How EPIC Works...Read More

Transportation is one of the most persistent problems in family caregiving. An oncology course means twenty visits. Dialysis means three mornings a week, indefinitely. Families absorb this with vacation days, car services, and arguments about the bus, and many never learn that New York already pays for these trips when the person receiving care has...Read More

For decades, the most reliable defense against a phone scam was simple: a stranger doesn’t sound like family. That defense no longer applies. Scammers can now clone a person’s voice using only a few seconds of audio pulled from social media, a voicemail greeting, or a video posted online, and use it to impersonate a...Read More

In many Black, Latino, Asian, and immigrant families, caring for an aging parent is treated as an expected family responsibility rather than a hardship to discuss openly. As a result, a caregiver’s own depression can go unrecognized for an extended period, often mistaken for ordinary fatigue. Two Cultural Scripts That Make This Harder to See...Read More

If you are caring for an older adult — and especially if that person is living with Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia — summer is not just an uncomfortable season. It is a dangerous one. As temperatures climb across New York City, the risks for vulnerable older adults rise with them, and the...Read More

There is a particular kind of comfort that comes from sharing a home with an animal. The sound of a dog’s tail wagging at the door. A cat settling into a warm lap on a quiet afternoon. A bird chirping at the first light of morning. For millions of older adults across the country, these...Read More