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Resilience for All Ages is an initiative of LeadingAge Maryland dedicated to equipping individuals and organizations to become more trauma-informed and to advance trauma-informed work with older adults.
Over the past decade, there has been increasing recognition across multiple health and human services disciplines that the experience of trauma is widespread across the population and has significant long term consequences for health and wellbeing. This recognition has led to the development of approaches to address the impact of trauma, some of them involving trauma-specific treatment, others involving creating conditions that are sensitive to the impact of trauma and to avoiding re-traumatization.
While significant research and practice work has been underway on trauma-informed approaches over the course of the past thirty years, within disciplines serving older people this body of work is still in early stages of widespread adoption. Resilience for All Ages and its growing community is committed to promoting research and practice regarding trauma-informed work with older adults.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has mandated the implementation of trauma-informed care for nursing homes that participate with Medicare and Medicaid. Community-based programs, independent living communities, assisted living, programs for people who have served in the military, families who have been affected by the Holocaust, and a wide range of other people and organizations will also have interest in this topic. We invite your engagement with Resilience for All Ages to expand the scope of work and understanding.
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