Carrington Senior Citizen Center

10 Resources Every Senior Should Know About

There are plenty of organizations that provide free or low-cost help with meals, transportation, housing, finances, and more.

10 Helpful Apps for Senior Citizens

More and more older people are into technologies. If you a the beginner, these are the apps you should try.

How to Find Free Rides for Seniors Who Live at Home

How to Find Free Rides for Seniors Who Live at Home. Help your parents stay active without busting your budget.

10 Questions for an Elder Law Attorney

Many concerns and questions can arise as we grow older. In the last decade or so, a new category of law has emerged that specializes in helping retirees answer their questions and learn their rights. Here, 10 questions for an elder law attorney.

10 Things That Senior Citizens Never Want You Say To Them

How do we even define a senior citizen? Legally, a person becomes one when they turn 65. That’s when they can start using all of those senior discounts. But not everyone feels like a senior citizen when they turn that arbitrary age. Some folks who have reached 65 might not even want to be called a “senior.”...

5 Ways to Stop Senior Citizen Scams

How can you protect a senior citizen you love against the growing scourge of elder fraud? Here are 5 tips from Consumer Reports.

How To Find Mental Health Services in Your Area

Mental health services are critical because they provide essential support for people who are struggling with their mental health. Treatment can allow people to better manage their mental health conditions, connect them with resources, and provide support for their families. Mental health care providers are a meaningful and integral part of the overall health care system. However, it can be difficult to know where to look…

Can health services handle the Apple Watch?

Apple's Watch upgrade brings new features that some warn could put strain on health services.

Preventive Health Service Use among Rural Women

Research Alert from the Rural Health Research Gateway for: Preventive Health Service Use among Rural Women

Petition: Increase funding to Children's Mental Health services

NHS children and adolescent mental health services (CAMHs) are so poorly funded that young people are often left to suicide before they get the help they need. CAMHs are having to turn away children with complex psychological conditions. No child should be told they are not ill enough to get help.

PR Measurement Professional Joins Universal Information Services

Jean Saucier has joined Universal Information Services to assist with business development to the Public Relations industry. News Monitoring and PR Measurement

How 3 Districts Are Bolstering Their School-Based Mental Health Services

A federal grant program is giving school districts opportunities to expand mental health services.

How Low-Code Development Will Deliver The Future of Public Health Services

Low-code development is a critical tool for delivering the public health services of the future and meeting the demands of our time.

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Meet the Disruptor: Providence Health & Services Building an Amazon-like Culture

Providence Health & Services has hired a team of experts from Amazon to help disrupt the health care industry and create closer ties with consumers.

When Do Information Services Projects Belong on the IT Side?

Tim Barlow discusses where the border should be drawn between the work of the information services (IS) and information technology (IT) teams. His experience is that "mission creep" on IT-related projects can be a problem in the IS team. He outlines a series of recommendations for ensuring tasks don't fall beyond the technical ability or strategic scope of the IS team and how to identify what should be carried out by IT colleagues.

Women More Likely to Use Other Preventive Health Services After Mammography

Medicare beneficiaries who undergo breast cancer screening with mammography are more likely than unscreened women to undergo other preventive health services like screening for cervical cancer and osteoporosis, according to a major new study appearing online in the journal Radiology

Future Hospitalization and Increased Health Service Use May Be Linked to Insomnia

Future Hospitalization and Increased Health Service Use May Be Linked to Insomnia

Integrated Health Services: Moving Beyond Agreement Toward Measurement and Action

RTI International is hosting a panel discussion on building effective integrated health services to achieve better health outcomes.

400 Million Lack Basic Health Services, Report Finds

The study by the World Health Organization and World Bank examined access to health services like prenatal care, child immunization and access to clean water.