Alzheimer’s advocates want police recruits to receive dementia training
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The Alzheimer’s Association will ask lawmakers to require that law enforcement recruits receive dementia specific training as they begin their careers.
Search Results for caregivers
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AARP Virginia: ‘Staffing shortages in nursing homes must come to an end’
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When Virginia’s General Assembly returns to Richmond this week, AARP Virginia will ask lawmakers to protect at-risk nursing home residents and their families by taking on quality and staffing problems in facilities.
Tips to help families of people with Alzheimer’s navigate the holiday season
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Celebrating the holidays with family and friends is something that most people look forward to for months. However, for people with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, the holidays can be overwhelming and challenging.
Waynesboro literacy program provides career exploration for EL students
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The Family Literacy Program is a 10-week program designed for English Learner students in grades 6 to 9 and their caregivers.
Council for Aging recommends creation of state drug affordability board
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The Commonwealth Council for Aging announced its support for the creation of a Prescription Drug Affordability Board (PDAB) in the 2023 legislative session.
Multi-institutional project awarded $31 million to study promising heart failure therapy
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Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Medicine is part of a $31 million, multi-institutional study focused on evaluating a new method for pacing the heart in people with heart failure and conduction system disease.
Augusta County: Make memories with your loved ones who do not remember
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The American Library Association’s Libraries Transforming Communities grant makes it possible now for the Augusta County Library to offer memory kits.
Kathy Kelly and Nick Mottern: Surviving the killing fields, a worldwide challenge
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Awaiting discharge from a hospital in Cairo, Adel Al Manthari, a Yemeni civilian, faces months of physical therapy and mounting medical bills following three surgeries since 2018, when a U.S. weaponized drone killed four of his cousins and left him mangled, burnt and barely alive, bedridden to this day.
Shenandoah University receives V3 employer certification
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Virginia Values Veterans (V3) announced that Shenandoah University is now a certified V3 employer.
Update: UVA relents, will allow Hudson, ODU football mascot, on the sidelines on Saturday
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ODU’s mascot puppy, Hudson, has been invited to a play date at Scott Stadium by UVA’s service-dog-in-training, Champ, ending what was becoming a PR nightmare for Virginia Athletics.
