Aging & Longevity
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How Technology Is Reshaping Care for Older Adults
From smart scales that help doctors detect heart failure, to errand-running robots that drop off lab specimens and pick up medication, technology is increasingly finding a role in health care.
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Health Systems Can Take Action Today To Support Family Caregivers. Here's How.
When Alma Valencia, a mother of two in Pasadena, California, left her job in fashion to care full time for her mom living with dementia, she didn't receive formal training or much guidance.
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Elizabeth Seton Children's Bridges Care Gap by Building New Center for Severely Disabled Young Adults
To allow for a hydrotherapy session for a 12-year-old resident of Elizabeth Seton Children's Center in Yonkers, New York, staffers act in concert with one another. Before Abigail Gonzalez even reached the pool, administrators and employees here raised money to cover a battery-operated, portable ventilator for her.
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Healthspan: Reimagining Whole-Person Wellness as a Community Goal
As Americans and their health care systems struggle with both escalating costs and the growing complexity of a fragmented payer-provider landscape, a sobering truth looms over this essential social function: Despite operating the most technologically advanced and expensive health care system in the developed world, the U.S. produces health outcomes that lag behind every other industrialized nation — and even some developing ones.
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From Innovation to Imperative: The New Era of Palliative Care Delivery
In 2024, the American Medical Association updated its Code of Medical Ethics to establish that physicians have an ethical responsibility "to address the pain and suffering occasioned by illness and injury and to respect their patients as whole persons. These duties require physicians to assure the provision of effective palliative care whenever a patient is experiencing serious, chronic, complex or critical illness, regardless of prognosis."
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Mapping a Better Care Plan for Dementia Patients and Their Families
While age is not synonymous with dementia, dementia is more common in those 75 and older. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports there are more than 6 million Americans living with dementia, and it affects more women largely due to their longer lifespan.
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Reflection — Behind the Need to 'No!': Why Accepting Care Is as Important as Giving It
I needed a toothbrush. One simple, preferably soft-bristled toothbrush. And I could not find one anywhere in my apartment.
Features
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Venerable Nelson Baker: What We Can Learn from This Apostle of Charity
Fr. Nelson Baker was an ordinary man who did extraordinary things. His 60 years in the priesthood were spent sheltering the homeless, feeding the hungry, caring for the sick and giving hope to the destitute.
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Menopause: Navigating from Symptoms to Solutions
Menopause has entered the chat. The subject of a recent Oprah Winfrey special, outspoken celebrity confessions, and the focus of institutional and startup investors clamoring for a piece of this more than $15 billion market, menopause is finally being noticed for the hidden phenomenon it is.
Departments
Editor's Note - Winter 2026
BETSY TAYLOR
Mission — Exploration of the Soul Is Ever-Present in the Ministry's Changing Seasons
JILL FISK, MATM
Formation — Survey: Senior Leadership Formation Is Fueled by Regular Cadence, Ample Time
DARREN M. HENSON, PhD, STL
Thinking Globally — Embracing Global Unity First in a 'What's in It for Me' World
BRUCE COMPTON
Community Benefit — How Community Benefit Serves as a Living Expression of Catholic Health's Mission and Commitment
NANCY ZUECH LIM, MPH, BSN
Pope Leo XIV — Finding God in Daily Life
Prayer Service — Life's Living Toward Dying: A Prayer for Grace as We Age
FR. CHARLES BOUCHARD, OP, STD, Senior Fellow and Consultant for Aquinas Institute of Theology
Ethics — The Road to Revision: Updated ERDs Set Guidelines for Catholic Care
Nathaniel Blanton Hibner, PhD