Aging in Place in Rural Nebraska: Homecare Worker Cooperatives with Cindy Houlden

29/05/2024 18 min

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Episode Synopsis

Cindy Houlden, a Cooperative Development Specialist with the Nebraska Cooperative Development Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, joins to discuss g a pressing issue facing rural Nebraska and much of the country – the challenge of aging in place and the innovative solutions being developed to address it. Houlden shares insights from her recent article on the establishment of the Homecare Worker Cooperative Academy and how it's helping communities like Arapahoe find sustainable ways to support their elderly residents.
: https://cap.unl.edu/rural/aging-place-rural-nebraska-homecare-worker-cooperatives
More about the Nebraska Cooperative Development Center: https://ncdc.unl.edu.

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