The counseling gap for older adults is not only about access. It is about who is trained to understand what later life contains.
Who Is Qualified to Listen to Us?
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Aging with Dignity: Missouri’s Plan to Support an Aging Population
State’s MPA Focuses on 7 Key Areas
When Policy Meets the Lives It Shapes
The people who policymakers design for today are the very people we likely will become
A Child May Age Out of a System, But They Never Age Out of a Family
An excerpt from “Grandfamilies: Stories of Children and the Loving Relatives Who Raise Them.”
Building Belonging and Community
ASA launches Community Groups
A Campaign to Shine a Light on an Invisible Workforce
Creating the #IAMACaregiver campaign
Building a Longevity-Ready Society
How ASA is thinking about the future of aging
The Dignity Test That Applies to Both Older and Disabled People
Four questions to consider when making policy decisions
If You Shape Community, You Shape How We Age
Letter from ASA’s Patrice Dickerson is an open invite to On Aging 2027: Creating Community conference
Announcing New ASA Community Groups
Letter from ASA President and CEO Leanne Clark-Shirley outlines six new groups
The Asset Aging Services Keeps Discarding
Organizations embracing artificial intelligence may risk overlooking the experienced professionals, residents, and advocates whose accumulated judgment can reveal what the data cannot
When the Medical Plan is Sound But Not Sustainable
Four questions to decide if a care plan is feasible
Aging-Services Professionals Need an AI Dignity Check Before Automation Reaches the Client
Five steps to take to ensure artificial intelligence is not introducing errors or biases
The Invitation: Creating Community at On Aging 2027
Building on the theme of belonging, our 2027 conference seeks to intentionally gather together
When Full Nursing Homes Mean Fewer Choices
Occupancy in nursing care communities keeps increasing. Is that a sign of recovery or scarcity?
We Didn’t Mean to Design Conversation Out of Home Care
We measure tasks completed and minutes worked but not connections made and personal impact.
Music-Response Drawing: A Daily Practice for People Aging with Parkinson’s Disease
My drawing starts with Steely Dan as the line follows the rhythm.
Elevating Voices to Inform System Planning
How the California’s Aging and Disability Lived Experience Advisory Board was created
Not a Continuum of Care: What We Get Wrong About Housing, Aging, and Dignity
Nursing homes structurally are total institutions
Work, Work, Work, and Then No Work
How being ‘too old’ destroys aging for millions.