As programming is slashed and anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric ramps up, we must fight to preserve this population’s hard-earned rights.
Older LGBTQ+ People Need Your Support and Advocacy
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Breaking Through the Walls of Loneliness
Friendly Visitors program provides path to form a friendship and stave off social isolation.
A New Blueprint for Action to Advance Comprehensive Nutrition and Obesity Care
‘A more comprehensive policy approach is needed to leverage effective engagement and coordination across stakeholder groups.’
Care Is What Connects Us
Family caregiving and the practice of belonging.
Pressured by FOMO? It’s Time to Say ‘No’
Experts explain how rejecting the fear of missing out can improve the quality of our lives.
Ways to Ensure Retirement Doesn’t Bite
It’s all about envisioning one’s dreams and figuring out how best to act on them.
Beyond the Numbers: Supporting Older Adults with Prediabetes Through Improved Diet Quality
Providing a framework on food choices for optimal dietary quality.
What the Numbers Say: The Stark Racial Divide in U.S. Inheritances
A primer on how we arrived at such wealth inequalities —and how they might continue.
Belonging Across the Veil
What Halloween and Día de los Muertos teach us about aging and connection.
Intergenerational Relationships and Social Interaction
How community-based interventions to tackle loneliness can decrease the risk of neurodegeneration among older adults.
Transforming Advocacy into Action
Creating the Expanding Age Advocacy guide held lessons in accurately capturing real-life narratives and why this can foster action.
On Timing, Termination, and Suppression of Research and Science
A precious monument to Social Security and a plea for policy attention.
The Complex Impact of ‘On’ and ‘Off the Books’ Work
Estimating what we miss about direct care workers’ employment, earnings, and retirement savings.
Contending With Home Care Needs After a Work Disability
Who tends to become disabled, what benefits are available for caregiving, and how might benefits impact household income long-term?
Caregiving and Retirement: Social Security and the Financial Strain of Eldercare
Caregivers often turn to Social Security payments to make ends meet, leaving them in a vulnerable position later in life.
Unseen Costs: How Providing Eldercare Impacts Work and Economic Security
Women are more likely to receive care, and many other findings from a study of HRS, ATUS, and CPS data.
Left Behind Twice: Fixing Social Security for Formerly Incarcerated Elders
Older adults leaving prison face a Catch-22 of bureaucracy, digital ignorance and limited help when applying for benefits.
Understanding Late Arriving Immigrants’ Social Security Eligibility and Retirement Security
This overlooked group faces steep barriers to finding work and then to accessing social safety net programs.
The Social Security Retirement Earnings Test
What lower-income workers and retirees need to know.
Supporting LGBTQ Older Adults in Retirement Through Research and Advocacy
Analyzing previous research in this cohort and new study group findings on financial issues in retirement.