Category Archives: Featured Expert

CCAL will feature different aging services and support experts to provide a spectrum of perspectives and information. CCAL will invite a diversity of experts spanning the practice, public policy, and research sectors.

Person-Centeredness: Should Be a Way of Life

This month’s FEATURED EXPERT is Karen Love, founder of CCAL.  Ms. Love has worked in the aging services field for many years; She has been involved in public policy efforts, and applied research as well.   Karen became a family member consumer … Continue reading

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Dealing with the Loneliness of Aging

by:  Howard Gleckman – Resident Fellow at The Urban Institute; a member of the Board of Trustees, Suburban Hospital (Bethesda,  MD) and co-chair of its Medical Quality Committee; member of the Board of The Jewish Council for the Aging of … Continue reading

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Satisfaction of Life Self-Assessment

With Sincere Appreciation to Professor Edward Diener, Josseph R. Smiley Distinguished professor of Psychology and Editor of Perspectives on Psychological Science, for granting us permission to share this: This test is designed to identify your level of satisfaction with life. 

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Where Is the Patient in the Patient-centered Medical Home?

by Holly Korda, Altarum Institute, Deputy Director for Strategy and Growth. – The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) has grabbed the limelight as a new model of health care that offers an alternative to fragmented, impersonal and wasteful care that has … Continue reading

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Not So Elementary My Dear Watson

Dr. Gardner is a nationally recognized leader in the application of quality improvement methods to the field of human services.  - I got an iPad over the holidays. I’ve loaded all my apps and can now read through my magazines, blogs, … Continue reading

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