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Aging

Dementia care

Calming influence

Published Winter 2013

A new program piloted by the School of Nursing uses indoor golf, barbershop quartet music, and more to reduce agitation in dementia patients. / Johns Hopkins Magazine

$5.8 million grant to fund study of frailty in older adults

Published Sept 2013

Researchers aim to speed the development of interventions to slow or stop it / Gazette

Assisted living, at home

Published July 9, 2013

School of Nursing study aims to help low-income older adults age in place / NPR

JHU, Michigan to develop web-based dementia tool

Published July 2013

Tool will help caregivers track, understand, and treat the behavioral symptoms of dementia / Gazette

Managing dementia

Published Nov 21, 2012

Two JHU professors outline six-step process for identifying, coping with behavioral symptoms / School of Nursing

The end of the road

Published Oct 8, 2012

Researchers seek ways to keep older people behind the wheel if they can drive safely, prepare them to quit if they can't / Johns Hopkins Public Health magazine