Chapter 11. Challenges and Rewards of Aging

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• Social Security Facts 
  The basics of Social Security—who gets it, how we pay for it, and why it remains necessary.

• How to Intervene in Elder Abuse 
  Defining elder abuse, and how to recognize signs that it may be occurring.

• Life with Alzheimer’s
  The difficulties of living with Alzheimer’s, and caring for someone who has the condition.

Audio Clips

• Reducing Reliance on Psychotropic Medications 
  How one nursing home cut their patients’ use of antipsychotics by 97% in just one year.

• Grannies Taking Care of Grannies 
  An innovative program in South Africa is helping older people look after each other.