Pet Ownership and Aging
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Articles
Caregiving for an Aging Pet Owner
This infographic explores the challenges, benefits, opportunities, and concerns of caregivers caring for pet owners.
Articles
Caring for Your Older Loved One’s Pet
When the loved one we are providing care for has a pet, chances are we will provide care for their pet as well. While this can add to the time we spend and amount of tasks we manage as caregivers, it can also provide us opportunities for self-care and a way to begin difficult discussions with a loved one.
Resources for Aging Adults
Explore articles and resources to help you live well as you age. Our topics include aging in place, avoiding scams, organizing finances, caring for your mental health and so much more!
Videos
Aging in Place
What’s the best way to successfully age in place? This webinar will review our newest homeownership workshop: “Aging in Place: Know Your Housing Options.” We’ll discuss how you can assess your loved one’s home for safety, accessibility and affordability; how your loved one can use their home equity to keep their home; ways to explore the many housing options available to your loved one; additional benefits; and legal and tax issues. We’ll also share an overview of Ohio’s first nonprofit real estate agency, and the many services offered to help both first time homebuyers purchase their first home and older adults transition out of their last homes.
Volunteer
Pet Assistance Linking Support
Are you looking to volunteer with pets and their owners in your community? Through the Pet Assistance Linking Support (PALS) program, volunteers can make a positive difference in the lives of older adults and their companion animals!
Articles
Pet Friendly Senior Living: What Questions Should I Ask?
In the United States, just over half of people ages 50 and older live with at least one pet, and studies have shown that companionship was the most common reason for owning a pet. Experiencing this bond with a pet can be a value that shapes an older adult’s choices, preferences and environment as they experience changes associated with aging. But if a time comes to transition to assisted living, how can you maintain that important bond with your pet?
Videos
Rose Centers for Aging Well
Rose Centers for Aging Well, a subsidiary of Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging, exists to promote successful aging for Northeast Ohio’s adults by offering opportunities, programs and services that foster choice and independence. Rose Centers provides home-delivered meals to homebound older adults as well as hot lunches and social, health and wellness programming in senior centers throughout the area.
Videos
Innovation and Collaboration: The Ohio State Plan on Aging
This collaborative approach outlines strategies for Ohioans to age well in our communities. Presented in partnership with the Elder Justice Coalition, Director Ursel McElroy of the Ohio Department of Aging offers insight into Ohio’s State Plan and how the framework fits into other aging plans across the country.
