The quantification of sleep in older adults.
What’s Your Sleep Number?
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Why Is Where You Live So Important?
Rounding up the various risk profiles of housing and neighborhoods, and effects on elders.
Place Matters in Health at Every Age
Neighborhoods can provide supportive environments for active aging.
Consequences of Increasing Housing Cost Burdens in Older Households
Challenges paying for housing can worsen health, make repairs impossible, and lead to unwanted or unnecessary moves.
The Telehealth Revolution That Can’t Reach Everyone
Bridging the digital divide is essential, yet politics may prevent our progress.
Age-Friendly Strategies for a Warming World
Potential challenges to living in increasingly warm climes, and how the Age-Friendly Communities Framework can help with prevention and planning.
Why Where You Live Is Crucial for Social Health
How our communities and local relationships can foster connection and social health, a pillar of health, well-being and longevity.
Imagining Accessible Futures
How we build belonging into digital spaces.
Why Baby Boomers Are Protesting Again—And Why It Matters
Shaped by the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam and Watergate, they’re back in force with no intention to stop until they succeed.
How Do Older Adults Experience the U.S. Healthcare System?
New West Health–Gallup state rankings reveal the answers from lived experience.
Public Transport Poses Roadblocks for Older Riders and Those with Disabilities
Activists are slowly seeing change on commuter trains in Boston and Chicago.
Care-Centered Change: Advancing PCTI Capacity in Aging Services
Empowering all to practice person-centered, trauma-informed care for older adults.
From Skates to Weights and Plates
How retired NHLers stay healthy for their later years.
Life After Retirement: How Older Adults Are Finding Love, Friendship, and Purpose
When isolation does not define retirement.
The Generation That Paved the Way, Finally at Home
Affordability, unity and companionship are built into this LGBTQ+ welcoming senior housing development in Boston.
Building Care Beyond the Clinic
A policy argument for social health in aging.
Lessons From Two Weeks in a Senior Living Community
‘None of Glenwood’s energy would exist without the staff who enable, not dictate, daily life.’
Integrating Rural Age-Friendly Care Initiatives into States’ RHTP Implementation
The RHTP must be paired with durable reforms to ensure rural Americans have reliable access to care for years to come.
Belonging as a Policy Imperative: Reflections on ASA’s Virtual Hill Day
Member-advocates brought data, lived experience, leadership and compassion into conversations with Congressional offices.
As a Matter of Fact(s), Direct Care Workers Need Our Attention—More Than Ever
‘We can’t afford to look away from direct care workforce challenges that are both longstanding and compounded by current political trends.’