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Supporting Family Caregiving: How Employers Can Lead
More than 53 million people provide unpaid care for loved ones, with 61 percent also holding paid jobs. Family caregiving impacts...
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Supporting Family Caregiving: How Employers Can Lead
More than 53 million people provide unpaid care for loved ones, with 61 percent also holding paid jobs. Family caregiving impacts...
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Mind the Gap: Investing in Dementia as an Opportunity to Extend Healthspan
We are living through an age of remarkable longevity. Globally, the number of people aged 60 and over is projected to double in the next 25 years. But this longevity boom masks a critical problem: the growing gap between lifespan and...Read Report
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Supporting Family Caregiving: How Employers Can Lead
More than 53 million people provide unpaid care for loved ones, with 61 percent also holding paid jobs. Family caregiving impacts financial stability, career progression, and overall well-being.Read Report
Improving Early Detection of Cognitive Impairment and Dementia
DOWNLOAD REPORT The prevalence of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia is increasing as advancements in medicine, public health, and living standards extend human lifespans. Approximately 12–18 percent of Americans aged 60 and older...Read Report
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Advancing Tech-Enabled Health and Home Care
Over the last two-plus years, the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging has explored the financial and care-delivery gaps in the long-term care market, specifically the barriers to affordable care for middle-income households and...Read Report
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Building Workforce Capacity to Improve Detection and Diagnosis of Dementia
The Alliance to Improve Dementia Care, part of the Milken Institute’s Center for the Future of Aging, utilizes a multi-sector approach to develop recommendations to improve care for individuals living with dementia across all stages...Read ReportMM
New Approaches to Long-Term Care Access for Middle-Income Households
"New Approaches to Long-Term Care Access for Middle-Income Americans" summarizes the key findings of a Financial Innovations Lab® organized by the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging and Innovative Finance teams in Fall 2020...Read Report
Together Apart: Findings from the Social Isolation Impact Summit
In July 2020, the Motion Picture and Television Fund (MPTF) and the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging convened the Social Isolation Impact Summit. We brought together experts in health and aging for one objective: to share...Read Report
Market Scan: Future of Long-Term Care amid Current Landscape of Barriers and Opportunities
The Milken Institute’s Center for the Future of Aging and Innovative Finance teams are collaborating on a research project to evaluate the most pressing barriers to effectively meeting the long-term care (LTC) needs of Americans across the...Read Report
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Caregivers in the Workplace
The Milken Institute Future of Aging and The Johns Hopkins University Business of Health Initiative brought together prominent employers, researchers, caregiving advocates, and representatives of the business community for a half-day convening at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in Washington, DC. The group discussed the need to raise private-sector employers’ awareness of the unique hurdles faced by working family caregivers, especially those caring for older adults, and opportunities to identify, offer, and advocate for impactful and valued employer benefits and support programs aimed at improving their lives.
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