Long before the United States Surgeon General declared a public health epidemic related to loneliness and isolation last year, the issue had been top of mind for professionals supporting older…

An unknown writer once referred to social work as “The art of listening and the science of hope.” That may just be the most perfect description there could be for…

When Elizabeth Milliken—known as “Bizza” in most circles—was a student in Boston College’s Graduate School of Social Work in the 1960s, a professor of hers described the occupation she would…