Elderly

According to a recent Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigation, the state-run veterans home in Union Grove facility has received over 50 citations and racked up over $200,000 in fines. Daphne Chen, a data and investigative reporter, and John Diedrich, an investigative reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, share more.

TimeSlips Creative Storytelling and the Milwaukee County Department of Health and Human Services on Aging collaborated with Goodwill, St. John’s On The Lake and the United Community Center to bring meaningful engagement to elders living at home during the pandemic.

The Beautiful Questions Project asks elderly people open-ended questions, which three artists will use to help inform an upcoming piece of public art in June.

A UW-Milwaukee gerontologist looking at the impact of music on patients with dementia finds an unexpected connection:Whenever I hear Frank Sinatra sing…