Having an individual who is diagnosed with severe Alzheimer’s disease can cause extreme burden on caretakers. Alzheimer’s is the decrease in brain availability. Alzheimer’s disease is a stressor in itself, because the disease causes individuals to have difficulty with cognition, ultimately reducing memory and events. There are a number of concerns in the treatment process involving this disease. The question of involving medicine to improve the treatment process of an individual with...

Data reported to the FBI each year by thousands of police departments across the country shows the percentage of youths taken into custody who were referred to adult courts dropped from 8% in 2010 to 2% in 2019. The percentage dropped to 1% in 2020, although that year’s data is considered unusual because of the coronavirus pandemic, which closed many courts. Instead, more teenagers are being sent to juvenile courts or community programs that steer them to counseling, peer mediation and other...

Innovation seldom follows a straight line—and often one of the most challenging phases of creating a new project is maintaining early momentum and adapting to unexpected changes beyond your control. That’s where Lisa Varon and Rhonda McKitten find themselves. Varon, as project manager, and McKitten, as project director, are two of the leaders behind Philadelphia ’s drive to create a Juvenile Assessment Center that aims to create a more appropriate intake experience for young people, one that...