By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
For seven years, Judy Berry watched her mother endure 12 hospitalizations for dementia-related behavior. However, Berry thought her mother didn’t fare well during treatment – she was often overmedicated (with what Berry later learned were inappropriate psychotropic...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Nationwide, 3 million direct care workers look after the elderly, and people with chronic illnesses and disabilities, in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, adult care homes, group homes and private homes. As the population ages, another 1 million will be...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
When Salome Chasnoff was in graduate school while raising two children, one school project changed the course of her life. She facilitated a workshop for pregnant teens as part of her graduate studies. She realized she wanted to devote her film career to social...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
When she retired after more than three decades in the Ohio public school system, Florence Catledge returned to her hometown of Montgomery, Ala., where she rekindled a romance with her high school sweetheart, Joe, who was also an educator. As happy as that circumstance...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
A native Cambodian who worked and raised a family in the U.S. for almost 30 years, Paul Chuk knew that educating children in rural areas had long been a problem in Cambodia, a country still recovering from the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime. Because of teacher...
