September 05, 2007
Bowling
Green, Ky. - Providing long-term care to older adults is a growing challenge for American families. About 10 million people 65 and older now depend on such services, and that number is expected to double by 2040.
A Long-Term Care Forum, hosted by Western Kentucky University’s Center for Gerontology, will give participants an opportunity to explore the many dimensions of long-term care. The community meeting, hosted by Center Director Dana Burr Bradley, begins at 3 p.m. today (Sept. 5) in Downing University Center, room 226.
Topics will include a discussion of how changes in disability levels, financial resources, their adult children’s availability and other factors will affect the demand for paid and unpaid long-term care services.
“People are simply living longer,” Dr. Bradley said. “With families shrinking and more women working outside the home, paid long-term care services will probably become more common.”
Today’s forum is part of a continuing series called “You Have Questions, We Have Answers: Critical Conversations about Age in our Community.”
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For information, contact Dana Burr Bradley at (270) 745-2356.
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