As new policies and laws are created to alleviate poverty and the factors that contribute to poverty, legal advocates fight in the courts to uphold those rights and secure the benefits and protections of the law. AARP Foundation’s Bill Rivera and Audra Wilson, President and CEO, Shriver Center on Poverty Law explore how nonprofits of various types can support social change through legal advocacy on this week’s episode of Future Proof.
Older Adults and Matters of Substance
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Substance Use and Abuse Among Older Adults: Reality and Treatment Options
Substance Use Is a Critical Health and Mental Health Issue for Older Adults
By Madeline A. Naegle and Benjamin H. Han
Training Future Leaders to Address Mental Health and Substance Use Issues in Older Adults—The Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program
By Harold Alan Pincus, Kathleen M. Pike, and Brigitta Spaeth-Rublee
Substance Use Disorders in Older Adults: Overview and Future Directions
By Carlos Blanco and Isabella Lennon
Substance Use: Implications for Health and Well-being
Something to Talk About: Reducing Risk in Alcohol Consumption Using Education and Conversation
By Deborah S. Finnell
Treating Substance Misuse in Older Adults Participating in PACE
By Pamela Z. Cacchione
Can Innovative Technologies Improve Behavioral Health Care for Older Adults?
By Alexis Kuerbis and Silke Behrendt
Why Older Adults Should Quit Tobacco and How They Can
By Lisa U. Nguyen and Timothy C. Chen
Spotlight: Smokeless Tobacco Use in Older South and Southeast Asian Americans
By Benjamin H. Han
Ethical Dilemmas in Counseling Older Adults on Cannabis Use: Less Science, More Quandaries
By Arthur Robin Williams
Help for Primary Care Practitioners in Addressing Older Adult Alcohol and Opioid Use
By Sebastian T. Tong, Elisabeth U. Kato, Mary P. Nix, and Arlene S. Bierman
Spotlight: Caring for Aging Veterans with Alcohol Use Disorder and Multiple Morbidities
By Aaron P. Greenstein, Haley V. Solomon, and Margo C. Funk
Tailoring Treatment and Recovery Programs to Older Adults
SBIRT-Plus: Adding Population Health Innovations to Enhance Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention Effectiveness
By Thomas Babor
Barriers Facing Older Adults with Substance Use Disorders in Post–Acute Care Settings
By Rossana Lau-Ng, Hollis Day, and Daniel P. Alford
What Can a Recovery Model for Alaska Natives Teach Us about Substance Use and Older Adults?
By Jordan P. Lewis
Prevalence and Correlates of Methamphetamine Use Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in San Francisco
By Glenn-Milo Santos, Desmond Miller, Jennifer Jain, Akua Gyamerah, Erin Wilson, Willi McFarland, and Henry F. Raymond
How Health Centers Engage Elders with Substance Use Disorder in Treatment
By Margaret Flinter
Spotlight: Caring for Older Adults Post Incarceration
By Benjamin H. Han
Inside Summer 2021 Generations Journal
Precarious Aging and Late-Life Poverty
An Opportune Moment for Socially Just Economic Strategies to Prevent Precarity
Our Guest Editors
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Precarity in Later life: Understanding Risk, Vulnerability, and Resilience
By Judith G. Gonyea and Amanda Grienier
Precarity and Economic Equality
Precarious Aging: The Spatial Context of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Economic Security
By Jan E. Mutchler, Yang Li, and Nidya Velasco Roldán
The Importance of Social Security as an Equalizer
By Wenliang Hou and Geoffrey T. Sanzenbacher
The Diversity of Older Immigrants and Precarious Aging: Eligibility and Access to Public Benefits
By Trinh Phan and Gelila Selassie
Precarity and Health Equity
A Tricky Balance: Medicare’s Affordability and Middle- and Lower-Income Beneficiaries’ Financial Stress
By Amber Willink
The Crucial Role of Federal Nutrition Programs in Promoting Health Among Low-Income Older Adults
By Robert Blancato and Meredith Whitmire
Precarity on a Global Scale
Climate, Disasters, and Extreme Weather Events: Vulnerability, Resources, and Interventions for Lower-Income Older Adults
By Alexis A. Merdjanoff
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Precarious Aging: The Importance of an Equity
By Marc A. Garcia, Adriana M. Reyes, and Catherine Garcia
Precarity in Relation to Place
Addressing Health Equity for Older Adults at the Neighborhood Level
By Stephanie Robert and Meghan Jenkins Morales
Mitigating Homelessness Among Older Adults: Opportunities in Adapting the Permanent Supportive Housing Model
By Sonia Gupta Pandit and Rebecca T. Brown
Affordable Senior Housing Maintenance and Renovations, COVID-19, and the Precarity of Residents’ Health Safety
By Tam E. Perry, Zach Kilgore, Michael Appel, Michele Watkins, Claudia Sanford, and Dennis Archambault
Suggested citation for articles in this issue: [Last Name(s), First Name(s)]. "Article Title." Generations Journal, 45, no. 2 (Summer 2021). [URL]
