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A Baby at 62! Why Are Scientists So Surprised?

Posted on 02/8/2013 by | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthShe is 62, and the smarty-pants scientists were sure her fertile days were long over. But then she (literally) gave them the bird by hatching a new little albatross chick. Her name is Wisdom, and she’s a beautiful charcoal-gray and snowy-white Laysan albatross (see a typical one, pictured at left) who lives at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge near the Hawaiian Islands. Although the average Laysan albatross dies at less than half her age, Wisdom is proof you should …

Grandfamilies Roundup: Studies, Housing and Resources

Posted on 09/14/2012 by | Aging, Home & Family Expert | Comments

Caregiving | Home & Family | Relationships | Your LifeGrandparents Week brings to mind those grandparents who are playing a special role – those who are living in multigenerational households and/or raising grandchildren by themselves. These grandparents go the extra mile to be there for their grandkids. Here’s a roundup of new research, resources and supports for grandfamilies. After more than a decade of planning, the newest housing designed specifically for grandfamilies, Grandfamilies Place of Phoenix, opened the first week of August. According to Delmonte Edwards, executive director of Tanner …

Growth in Grandfamilies Leads to Food Insecurity

Posted on 06/1/2012 by | Aging, Home & Family Expert | Comments

Home & Family | RelationshipsEditor’s note: This post originally appeared as an article in the May/June 2012 issue of Aging Today but has been edited for length. According to the U.S. Census, more than 2.5 million grandparents in America are householders responsible for grandchildren who live with them, and almost 20 percent are living in poverty. More than a third of these households have no parents present. A recent AARP survey found about one in 10 grandparents have grandchildren living in the home, and 43 percent …

Why We Shouldn’t Need a ‘GrandRally’

Posted on 09/12/2011 by | Home & Family blogger | Comments

Home & FamilySoapbox alert. I’m neither a parent nor a grandparent. But I have parents and had grandparents, so for the sake of this blog post, that makes me an expert. Now, every few years child advocacy and grandparenting organizations gather on the west front of the U.S. Capitol to remind members of Congress that, well, to put it bluntly, they’re failing to adequately protect and help grandparents who are raising their grandchildren.

Inside E Street Highlights Grandparents

Posted on 08/11/2011 by | Aging, Home & Family Expert | Comments

RelationshipsI recently had the pleasure of joining my long-time friend and colleague Jaia Peterson Lent, Deputy Executive Director at Generations United, for a discussion on AARP’s TV show, Inside E Street which provides a civil look at issues critical to Americans. We talked about a topic we both feel very passionate about: grandparents. Inside E Street’s host, Lark McCarthy, was fabulous (I remember watching her on the local DC TV station so it was great to meet her in person!). In this segment, Grandparents on …

Grandfamilies: Top Research Topics

Posted on 04/29/2011 by | Aging, Home & Family Expert | Comments

RelationshipsI co-presented at a session, “Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Preliminary Results of a National Survey on Research and Practice” here at the American Society on Aging’s “Aging in America” conference in San Francisco, along with Deb Whitley from GSU and Andrea Smith from WMU. We were so pleased that we had a good representation of the next generation of researchers and practitioners at our session – undergraduate and graduate students. They are the future. They are the people who will be taking …

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