Call it the elephant in the closet. Family caregivers in the workforce. Six in 10 caregivers are employed while caring for a loved one. Among them, 56 percent work full time. While people between the ages of 50 and 64 represent the largest age group of caregivers, millennials make up…
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There are nearly 35 million Americans providing unpaid care to an older adult. As the population ages, caregiving is an issue that will touch every family, rich or poor.
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Professor Emeritus James E. “Jim” Birren, the founding dean of the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology and an aging research pioneer considered by many to be the father of modern gerontology, passed away on January 15, 2016 at the age of 97.
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Learn more about frequently asked questions pertaining to the Home Care Services Consumer Protection Act.
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Lisa Genova is a neuroscientist and award-winning author of the New York Times best-selling novels Still Alice, Left Neglected, Love Anthony, and Inside the O’Briens. Still Alice was adapted into a major motion picture starring Julianne Moore, who won the 2015 Academy Award for her role as Alice Howland, a professor diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Genova has travelled internationally speaking about Alzheimer’s disease, traumatic brain injury, and autism, and has appeared on Dr. Oz, The Diane Rehm Show, CNN, Chronicle, Fox News, and Canada AM. Lisa Genova will join distinguished USC professor and brain researcher Arthur Toga for a fascinating and important conversation on the impact of Alzheimer’s disease on individuals, families, and communities.
For more information and to RSVP, click here.
Location
Bovard Auditorium
University Park Campus
Contact phone: 213-740-0483
Last month, the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee did just that, taking an important step to help America’s unsung heroes, family caregivers — and the loved ones they assist
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On Friday, October 23, the sun was shining brightly on the USC Family Caregiver Support Center satellite office in Rosemead, and life also became a bit brighter for the area’s many caregivers as the center celebrated its grand opening.
Rosemead Chamber of Commerce’s Executive Director and CEO Helen Hua led off the festivities as she discussed the importance of supporting caregivers and how the facility benefitted the community. Assemblyman and Trojan Ed Chau, representing the 49th assembly district, spoke of his personal connection to this project. He explained the challenges he faced as his father’s caregiver over the last few years of his life and the support available as he helps care for his elderly mother.
Representatives from County Supervisor Hilda Solis, Congresswoman Judy Chu, and Senator Ed Hernandez office spoke about this wonderful addition to the community. CC DeGraff of the California Mission Inn discussed how thankful they were to provide a location for this worthy cause.
The new Family Caregiver Support Center satellite office
is located at 4807 Earle Avenue, Rosemead, CA 91770.
During a 2014 winter storm, Charles Martin climbed onto the roof of his rural Rockport, Ind., home to clear off a foot of heavy, wet snow. With his wife at work, Mr. Martin, a family counselor, slipped and fell off the roof, breaking his wrist and shattering his hip. Lying on his icy driveway in severe pain, he tried to call 911 on his cellphone, but the call would not go through. He lay in 20-degree cold for two hours until his wife arrived and dialed the emergency number from the landline inside the house.
