February 9, 2012 – 12:00 am
By: Suzanne Gregory, SCOPE I just read a good article about closing the hospital revolving door. It’s about helping older adults prepare in advance for what happens AFTER they are released from the hospital. Some studies show that 40 percent to 50 percent of readmissions occur because patients don’t understand the discharge instructions and don’t [...]
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Tagged Caregiver, Caregiving, Hospital Readmissions, SCOPE
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February 7, 2012 – 5:05 pm
By: Suzanne Gregory, SCOPE A month or so ago, I wrote about being an impending caregiver as my parents get older, and trying to be prepared. It seemed like my mother – younger, more physically fit and in better health than my dad would end up being the caregiver. At least those were the odds. [...]
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Tagged Aging, Caregiver, Caregiving, Older Adults
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December 21, 2011 – 9:54 pm
By Suzanne Gregory, Sarasota County Openly Plans for Excellence (SCOPE) An article in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune talked about the graying of our global population as our planet hits the 7 billion population mark. Ted Fishman, author of “Shock of Gray”, was quoted, “Longer life is what human beings have wanted ever since we started talking [...]
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Tagged Sarasota County, SCOPE, Shock of Gray
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December 15, 2011 – 1:50 pm
by Suzanne Gregory, Sarasota County Openly Plans for Excellence (SCOPE) With the community research complete, the next step for the Aging with Dignity and Independence intiative is to share the fruits of the research, the six big themes that surfaced after examining the local lived-experiences of more than 500 older adults in Sarasota County. The [...]
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Tagged Aging, Aging with Dignity and Independence, Sarasota County, SCOPE
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November 16, 2011 – 9:43 pm
This is a cross-post by Suzanne Gregory originally published on the Sarasota County Openly Plans for Excellence (SCOPE) Blog. On Nov. 4 I attended the 11th Annual Caregiving Forum at Sarasota Memorial Hospital, entitled “The Year of the Family Caregiver.” I was there as an impending family caregiver. Unclear as to when exactly I would [...]
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Tagged Caregivers, National Family Caregiver Association
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May 5, 2011 – 2:52 pm
By Suzanne Gregory, Sarasota County Openly Plans for Excellence (SCOPE) The American Society on Aging conference on San Francisco was a tremendous opportunity to learn from scores of dedicated professionals across many areas of aging, including nonprofit leaders, senior center directors, policy analysts, AARP leaders, and technology consultants. I will reflect on these in bits [...]
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Tagged AARP, Aging, Aging in America, American Society on Aging, Baby Boomers, Civic Ventures, Claude Pepper Center, One Nation Under AARP, Social Security Administration, The Patterson Foundation
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May 2, 2011 – 12:44 pm
By Tim Dutton, Executive Director, Sarasota County Openly Plans for Excellence (SCOPE) The fact that the number of older adults will more than double over the next 40 years has considerable public policy implications. This statement of the obvious does not diminish its importance and that was the topic of a session that featured Professor [...]
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Tagged AARP, Aging, Aging in America Conference, Baby Boomers, Claude Pepper Center, Florida State University, Public Policy
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April 28, 2011 – 4:44 pm
By Tim Dutton, Executive Director, Sarasota County Openly Plans for Excellence (SCOPE) I have been at the American Society on Aging conference for a full day. This conference is a big deal with more than 5,000 attendees. This is evident in the number of people in line at Starbucks in the morning, the number of [...]
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Tagged Aging, Aging in America Conference, American Society on Aging, Caregivers, Sarasota County Openly Plans for Excellence, Technology
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March 31, 2011 – 12:00 am
By Suzanne Gregory, SCOPE Social media is all the hype these days and Facebook is certainly at the forefront. I have a 17-year-old daughter, and if I want to know what is on her mind, I check out her Facebook page. Very occasionally I even post a comment. Let me be clear, she friended me. [...]
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Tagged Aging, Assisted Living, Facebook, Older Adults, Skype, Social Media
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March 24, 2011 – 1:48 pm
By Tim Dutton, Executive Director of SCOPE By now, many people have heard about Mickey Rooney’s testimony to a congressional panel about elder abuse. Mr. Rooney related his experiences of financial and personal abuse at the hands of his son-in-law. One of the messages that Mr. Rooney makes clear is that if this can happen [...]
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Tagged Congress, Elder Abuse, Mickey Rooney, New York City Department on Aging and Lifespan of Greater Rochester
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