New Learning Opportunities for Seniors
This fall, more than 250 eager students flocked to the Lorenzo Cultural Center at Macomb Community College. They weren’t undergraduates or continuing education students, but rather members of an enriched...
Nov 15th 2015
Helping Seniors Remain at Home
Making life more comfortable for the more than 80 percent of seniors who want to remain in their own homes is the goal of an experimental collaborative project undertaken by...
Nov 15th 2015
Expanding Horizons with Technology
Older adults have been living at an idyllic setting in Chelsea, Michigan, since the early 1900s, when local manufacturer Frank Porter Glazier donated 33 acres to establish a home for...
Nov 15th 2015
Creating a Culture of Support for LGBT Older Adults
Aging is never easy. Most older adults face an array of physical, emotional and financial challenges. For LGBT seniors, those challenges are magnified. In contrast to their heterosexual peers, LGBT...
Nov 15th 2015
Improving Health Care Access and Outcomes
Arranging transportation to and from medical appointments. Understanding medical directions. Filling prescriptions. Implementing treatment plans. Scheduling follow-up visits. For most of us, these tasks are just a routine part of...
Nov 15th 2015
Reinventing Dementia and Alzheimer’s Care
No report on the state of aging in America today can be complete without a discussion of memory loss and dementia. An estimated 5.3 million Americans of all ages have...
Nov 15th 2015
Detroit Auto Dealers Association Supports Children and Youth
The Detroit Auto Dealers Association (DADA) Charitable Foundation Fund was established at the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan in 1998 by the DADA, a trade association composed of more than...
Nov 15th 2015
Reducing Pre-Term Births In Detroit
Infant mortality, measured as infant deaths before the age of 1 year per 1,000 live births, is higher in the United States than in most developed countries. The problem is...
Apr 6th 2015
CPR Training for Firefighters
With help from a DMC Foundation grant of $51,000, a program at the Detroit Medical Center is training hundreds of firefighters in adult and infant CPR and basic lifesaving, including...
Apr 6th 2015
Creating a Lasting Legacy
If you have a particular area of charitable interest, you might consider starting an endowed field-of-interest fund at the Community Foundation. That’s what Nancy Davidson of Grosse Pointe Woods did,...
Nov 15th 2015