Pages related to elder care

Sara Honn Qualls

Sara Honn Qualls talks about demographic shifts to come

Plenary speaker Sara Honn Qualls, an expert on Aging and Gerontology, walks her audience through the demographic shifts to come and how the global trend of beanpole fertility will profoundly affect the demands on families, who are still the primary providers of elder care throughout the world.

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Caregiving in Aging Families: Challenges in a Changing Economic World - Audio Recording

With the aging of the U.S. population, increasing numbers of older adults will experience chronic disabilities requiring care. Currently family caregivers provide the majority of care for impaired older adults, often at great sacrifice to the caregiver’s own well-being, and changing social and economic circumstances can provide even greater challenges in the years ahead. This presentation addresses how social and economic changes affect family caregivers now and in the years to come.
UN DESA

News from the UN

caring for the world's older people
August 23, 2011

Protecting the Human Rights of Older Persons

Sloan's Effective Workplace Series

January 04, 2011

The Sloan Work and Family Research Network form Boston College has a series of "topic pages" that provide helpful information on a wide variety of work-life issues.