News from Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging

November 2019

Our offices will be closed Thursday and Friday, November 28 and 29 for the holiday.

From the desk of President & CEO Orion Bell

CARE PARTNERS

Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging held its annual Caregiving Conference earlier this month. This year’s theme was Supporting Families Impacted by Dementia . We had a full house in the conference center: caregivers, service providers, researchers and health care professionals coming together to discuss the importance of informal caregivers, the challenges many of them face in meeting the needs of their loved ones, and strategies on how to better support them.

Our keynote speakers for the conference were The Very Reverend Tracey Lind and Emily Ingalls, her care partner. They shared the story of Tracey’s dementia diagnosis and the paths their lives have taken as they learned to live with the disease. Tracey and Emily’s story is one of hope and empowerment, as they share their lives’ journey to raise awareness of living with dementia. During Emily’s remarks she made a comment about her role as a care partner in the relationship. “I am not her caregiver; we are each other’s care partner.” Emily reminded us that the relationship of care partners involves both the giver and the recipient of care.

MEDICARE OPEN ENROLLMENT

The Medicare Open Enrollment period runs through December 7, 2019.

If you need help sorting through changes for 2020, our Benefits Specialists can help!

Call 216.373.1650 (TOLL FREE 1.866.885.1650) for assistance with finding the plan that best meets your health, life and financial needs.

A NEW RESOURCE FOR CAREGIVERS

November is National Family Caregivers Month when we recognize the more than 40 million spouses, children, friends and others who are caring for aging parents, spouses or other loved ones.

Caregivers who are looking for high quality resources to help them on their own caregiving journeys will find them at benrose.org.

Benjamin Rose staff share their expertise and knowledge in the online resource library on a host of topics such as dementia care, managing stress, aging in place, services and interventions, and more.

Users can search articles by keyword or phrase or by publication date. Lists of articles can also be chosen from a handy topic list.

Explore benrose.org

NEW LOOK. NEW SEARCH. NEW RESOURCES.

MEALS ON WHEELS

SHARE THE LOVE

Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging, through our subsidiary Rose Centers for Aging Well, is once again participating in the Subaru Share the Love Event as part of the Meals on Wheels network . Over the past 11 years, Subaru and its retailers have helped Meals on Wheels deliver more than 2.2 million meals nationwide to older adults in need.

One in four older adults lives alone in isolation and one in seven might not know from where their next meal is coming. The vital nutrition, wellness checks and social interaction that come with home-delivered meals can help older adults stay in their own homes, where they want to be.

We are grateful to Subaru and its retailers for supporting the Meals on Wheel network, including the Rose Centers home-delivered meal program.

From now until January 2, 2020, for every new Subaru vehicle purchased or leased, Subaru will donate $250 to the customer’s choice of participating charities .* Meals on Wheels is one of four national participating charities and has been since the inception of the event. Through this event, as a member of Meals on Wheels America, the Rose Centers will receive a share of the donation from Subaru vehicles sold at participating retailers.

*Disclaimer: Subaru will donate $250 for every new Subaru vehicle sold or leased from November 14, 2019, through January 2, 2020, to four national charities designated by the purchaser or lessee. Pre-approved Hometown Charities may be selected for donation depending on retailer participation. For every new Subaru vehicle sold or leased during the campaign period, participating retailers will donate a minimum of $50 in total to their registered Hometown Charities. Purchasers/lessees must make their charity designations by January 15, 2020. The four national charities will receive a guaranteed minimum donation of $250,000 each. See your local Subaru retailer for details or visit subaru.com/share. All donations made by Subaru of America, Inc.

WHOLE FOODS MARKET COMMUNITY DAY OF GIVING

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Whole Foods Community Day of Giving. The Rose Centers for Aging Well has earned $4,134.75 from Meals on Wheels of America by participating in the October 2019 Whole Foods Market event. We were also happy to share information about our Rose Centers programs and services at the Whole Foods Market at Cedar Plaza.

Pictured: Institutional Advancement Intern Amy Vaughters shares information about Rose Center with Whole Foods shoppers

BENJAMIN ROSE ANNUAL CAREGIVING CONFERENCE

Thank you for joining us!

More than 140 people joined us for our Annual Caregiving Conference on Thursday, November 7, 2019.

This year's conference, sponsored by Northeast Ohio Medical University and the Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP), focused on supporting families impacted by dementia.

The Very Reverend Tracey Lind and her care partner Emily Ingalls shared the personal story of living with frontotemporal dementia.

Pictured above, left (from left to right): Emily Ingalls, The Very Reverend Tracey Lind, and Orion Bell, President and CEO of Benjamin Rose.

Pictured above, right: David M. Bass, PhD, Senior Vice President for Research at Benjamin Rose.

Attendees gained valuable information about supporting individuals living with dementia and their family caregivers, including destigmatizing dementia, and how creating dementia-inclusive communities can foster this destigmatization; how physicians can help individuals living with dementia age in place; and available evidence-based programs for dementia caregiving.

An interactive activity capped the day, providing attendees with an inter-professional simulation training opportunity, developed through the Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP).

Look for more exciting programs from the GWEP in 2020!

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STAFF NOTES

Benjamin Rose at GSA Conference

Staff from the Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging presented 13 papers, posters and symposia at the 2019 Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America in Austin, Texas November 13 through November 16, 2019. Benjamin Rose presenters addressed: evidence-based programs for caregiving, human-animal interaction, care planning in early-stage dementia, sharing life stories, aging in China, and other topics. Complete list of presentations.

On Friday, November 15, Senior Research Scientist Carol Whitlatch, PhD (pictured above) presented the M. Powell Lawton Lecture titled “Following in the Footsteps of a Great Applied Gerontologist (While Simultaneously Forging Your Own Path)." Dr. Whitlatch was the recipient was of the 2018 M. Powell Lawton Award from GSA, which recognizes an individual who has made outstanding contributions from applied research that has benefited older people and their care.