Social isolation is a significant issue for veterans who may lose touch with friends due to multiple moves and deployments, physical and mental health issues resulting from their service, and difficulty that veterans can experience when leaving military service. Learn about this important topic — and resources available to address it — by joining ACL's upcoming Commit to Connect webinar. This webinar will highlight three organizations and their efforts to reduce social isolation among veterans.

This webinar will cover key aspects of Lewy body dementias (LBD), including symptoms, diagnosis, and care considerations, while highlighting the real-life experiences of a former care partner who navigated the complexities of LBD within her own family. Participants will gain valuable perspectives on the challenges faced by individuals living with LBD and their caregivers and will explore practical strategies for providing compassionate, informed support.

Please join ACL for an aging network training opportunity to learn more about the National Caregiver Support Collaborative (NCSC), an innovative initiative offering resources and technical assistance to aging network organizations and key partners, including those serving tribal and kinship caregiver support networks.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Administration for Community Living (ACL) today announced the release of $1.1 billion in funding and new grant opportunities to provide critical services to older adults, people with disabilities, and their family caregivers — especially during Older Americans Month.

This presentation will showcase the work of two dementia programs that made significant adaptations to their original outreach, recruitment, and partnership plans to support the uptake of their community dementia programs.

Rebecca Utz, Ph.D., and members of her team from the University of Utah will describe the results from a five-year National Institute on Aging-funded study to develop and test a respite-focused intervention, Time for Living and Caring (TLC). The TLC app was designed to support caregivers by helping them plan for their own respite time.

Join the ACL-funded National Alzheimer’s and Dementia Resource Center (NADRC) for their upcoming webinar, which, in a panel format, will highlight the intersection of careers in supporting people living with dementia and caregivers — and the ways their personal experiences as dementia caregivers have informed this work.

Join the ACL-funded National Alzheimer’s and Dementia Resource Center (NADRC) for their upcoming webinar: Creating a Dementia-Capable Workforce of First Responders.

The Administration for Community Living’s No Wrong Door Resource Center invites you to participate in a webinar about care transitions for people with complex needs, including the scope and impact of complex needs on care transitions; the role of partnerships in facilitating successful care transitions, follow-up, community tenure, and health and social outcomes; and successful models working to improve care transitions for persons with complex needs, including housing instability and financial insecurity

Every March, the National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities (NACDD) and its partners collaborate to lead Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month (DDAM), an annual campaign highlighting how people with and without disabilities form strong communities together.