One of the most critical choices older adults need to make is where they will live as they age. A variety of factors will go into making that decision. Do they have an active lifestyle? If their activity level changes, will there be support services available to them? What about location? How much will housing options cost? Should relatives be involved in the decision-making process? Whatever option is chosen, the best choice needs to ensure that the older adult’s health, welfare, legal rights and financial needs are ...

Our Ginny Gives Grants promote and underwrite non- medical therapies in several key areas: music, the arts, movement and touch. Now, recent research confirms the benefits of simply holding someone's hand. Join our conversation over at our Facebook page on this "touchy subject."

Reach for the hand of a loved one in pain and not only will your breathing and heart rate synchronize with theirs, your brain wave patterns will couple up too, according to a new study. The study, by researchers with CU Boulder and University of Haifa and published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week, also found that the more empathy a comforting partner feels for a partner in pain, the more their brainwaves fall into sync. And the more those brain waves sync, the more the ...