By: Alison Weihofen, LCSW, MPH

“Good news” and “depression” are not usually found in the same sentence.  However, here’s the first piece of good news:  The vast majority of adults aged 65 and over is not depressed.  The United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that only 1% - 5% of older adults living independently in the community suffer...

Access to water is a basic human need and a fundamental human right. Yet over a billion people in the world still live without safe, clean water to drink. The diseases that result from drinking dirty water kill 5000 children every single day!!

While the statistics alone are shocking, they still say nothing about the daily reality of life without...

The third and last in our series on Worldwide Water Issues – real problems in real places.

While the global picture for water management is far from encouraging, that of Africa is much worse.  300 million Africans do not have access to safe water. The inability to be able to obtain clean water, and the illnesses that result from poor...

Welcome to the newly re-named team that focuses on age-related issues!

Over the last few months, a new team of team co-chairs, Kelly Fitzgerald, PhD and Tam Thompson-Steckel, has been working to revise the Transitions: Growing Older Team into the newly named Global Aging Team.  Ali Weihofen, LCSW, MPH  has been a significant contributor to the development of the newly...