What a way to conclude a busy summer! In August, I had the privilege of joining a program of specialized training and workshops in Belfast, Northern Ireland (NI) for two weeks. My assigned task was to introduce real-world examples of
I was invited to join an amazing lineup of Continuing Care and Life Plan Community leaders for a July 23-24 program hosted by AV Powell & Associates in Atlanta, Georgia. My only regret was not being able to spend the
The New York Times offers a detailed account of Channing House in California, a well known Life-Plan Community (also known as a Continuing Care Retirement Community or CCRC), where residents are confronting “a problem they felt powerless to fix: the
Here is a remarkably detailed article by HuffPost writer Katie Mather. See “These States Can Require You to Support Your Elderly Parents, Whether You Like It Or Not,” published on June 29, 2026.
A bit of background helps. Scott Townsley, a lawyer, academic, and business consultant with 40 years of experience in senior living operations, had been reading disclosure statements on file with the Pennsylvania Insurance Department in the wake of a
How all of this started is part of our research team’s folklore. My Fulbright placement in 2009-10 was in a program called the Changing Ageing Partnership, funded by Atlantic Philanthropies, with a physical base at the law school at
My post yesterday seems to have struck a chord with several readers who wrote to me over the evening. Each email described a daughter’s feeling of being overwhelmed by how to help an aging parent in distress.
These brief accounts,
My interest is piqued by a new feature article in The New York Times, titled “The Pain of Caring for a Parent Who Abused You,” by Katie Engelhart. I’m quoted in the article on the narrow topic of how
I have had another recent opportunity to discuss details of a older adult’s’ traumatic interaction in his senior living community. As far as I can tell, the grounds for an aggressive attempt to evict him were his efforts to discuss
Lately, I’ve been hearing from older adults who have had their bank accounts or similar financial accounts hacked, promptly discovered a problem and reported the hack, only to find they have to jump through an astounding number of hoops to
