The Anniversary Issue: Revisiting Generations in ASA’s 70th Year
Generations Journal, vol. 48, no. 3 (Fall 2024 Issue)
ASA’s Golden Child, Generations
One of the highlights of my career has been the opportunity to serve for 2 decades on the Editorial Advisory Board of Generations, the quarterly journal of the American Society on Aging—both as its chair and as a guest editor for three issues. Each issue of Generations is devoted to bringing together the most useful and current knowledge about a specific...
How Splendid to Explore ‘Gender and Age: A Focus on Women’
It's not unusual to wince when looking back at how we saw the world earlier in life—areas of innocence that became decidedly more complex and nuanced over time, invisible biases that once skewed our perceptions, situations that loomed with great significance yet seemed much less crucial decades later. After all, this expansion beyond our prior outlook...
Generations, a Voice for Those Affected by the Care Management Evolution
There are many great benefits to being an ASA member, which makes it hard to choose just one to focus on. I became a member of ASA to gain insight into all that I did not know about aging. For 10 years, I had been in what became the Aging Network, had the privilege of being the founding director of an Area Agency on Aging, and had moved beyond my hometown...
History Repeats Itself on the Page
This idea of rounding up former chairs of the Generations Editorial Advisory Board for a dedicated journal to mark ASA's 70th anniversary is delightful, and something to celebrate, indeed! For 7 1/2 years between 2006 and 2015 I served as chair of the Editorial Advisory Board, and my choices of journal issues that were of particular interest or held...
Innovating Like It’s 1976
So much progress! Onward and upward we go in the field of aging, especially in policy and advocacy! Look at our sophisticated cross tabulations, be impressed by our rich data and sharp analyses, check out the way we use technology for advocacy campaigns! We've made so much progress, haven't we? Or have we? Clutching our Pet Rocks in 1976, we (or people...
Medicare Has Sustainability Issues: Who Could Have Guessed?
The Medicare program has been a major boon to the United States' national well-being since its enactment in 1965, resulting in enormously improved access to high-quality, affordable health care for many millions of older and disabled Americans. But these benefits of Medicare have been achieved only through the expenditure of vast financial resources....
Remembering the Value of Legacy
During the years in which I served on the Generations Editorial Advisory Board (1990-2012) and chaired it (1997-2001), single-themed issues of the journal were not so much assembled (as at a conventional journal) as curated. At in-person meetings of the board, members batted around potential topics for future issues. These might be updates about perennial...
Why Care Is So Fundamental
Editing the publications of the American Society on Aging has always felt more like a privilege than a job. During the past 13 years working here, I have learned much more than I originally thought possible. I hadn't come into the job blind, mind you; likely the story of my parents helped me to obtain it in the first place. But isn't that how most people...
Staff
Editor-in-Chief: Leanne Clark-Shirley, PhD
Senior Editor: Alison Biggar
Issue Contents
ASA’s Golden Child, Generations
One of the highlights of my career has been the opportunity to serve for 2 decades on the Editorial Advisory Board of Generations, the quarterly journal of the American Society on Aging—both as its chair and as a guest editor for three issues. Each issue of...
How Splendid to Explore ‘Gender and Age: A Focus on Women’
It's not unusual to wince when looking back at how we saw the world earlier in life—areas of innocence that became decidedly more complex and nuanced over time, invisible biases that once skewed our perceptions, situations that loomed with great significance yet...
Generations, a Voice for Those Affected by the Care Management Evolution
There are many great benefits to being an ASA member, which makes it hard to choose just one to focus on. I became a member of ASA to gain insight into all that I did not know about aging. For 10 years, I had been in what became the Aging Network, had the privilege of...
History Repeats Itself on the Page
This idea of rounding up former chairs of the Generations Editorial Advisory Board for a dedicated journal to mark ASA's 70th anniversary is delightful, and something to celebrate, indeed! For 7 1/2 years between 2006 and 2015 I served as chair of the Editorial...
Innovating Like It’s 1976
So much progress! Onward and upward we go in the field of aging, especially in policy and advocacy! Look at our sophisticated cross tabulations, be impressed by our rich data and sharp analyses, check out the way we use technology for advocacy campaigns! We've made so...
Medicare Has Sustainability Issues: Who Could Have Guessed?
The Medicare program has been a major boon to the United States' national well-being since its enactment in 1965, resulting in enormously improved access to high-quality, affordable health care for many millions of older and disabled Americans. But these benefits of...
Remembering the Value of Legacy
During the years in which I served on the Generations Editorial Advisory Board (1990-2012) and chaired it (1997-2001), single-themed issues of the journal were not so much assembled (as at a conventional journal) as curated. At in-person meetings of the board, members...
Why Care Is So Fundamental
Editing the publications of the American Society on Aging has always felt more like a privilege than a job. During the past 13 years working here, I have learned much more than I originally thought possible. I hadn't come into the job blind, mind you; likely the story...
Editorial Advisory Board
Ruth E. Katz, Chair
Wendy Lustbader, Immediate Past Chair
Tobi Abramson
Orion Bell
Mary L. Flett
Sarah Galvan
Robyn L. Golden
Donna M. Lisi
Najja Orr
Winifred V. Quinn
Laura Trejo
ISSN 2694-5126
Suggested citation for articles in this issue: [Last Name(s), First Name(s)]. “Article Title.”
About Generations Journal
Generations Journal is the quarterly journal of the American Society on Aging. Each issue is devoted to bringing together the most useful and current knowledge about a specific topic in the field of aging, with emphasis on practice, research, and policy.