Indigenous cultural generativity can preserve values, improve well-being and contribute to healthy aging.
Generativity Holds Many Positive Effects for AI/AN Older Adults
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Tips for Enhancing Access to Legal Help for Tribal Elders
New n4a report identified legal assistance as a top need for Native American aging programs.
Lauren Artress: A Life in Sacred Motion
An authority on labyrinths, she has written four books and trains labyrinth facilitators.
Asian American and Pacific Islander Caregivers Need Our Support
Rising hate crimes and cultural beliefs mean long-term, intense caregiving for this group, with little external support.
Malnutrition in Older Adults: What to Watch for and How to Help
The most efficient way to address malnutrition is to prevent it.
Better Care, Better Jobs Act Desperately Needed for Aging Well
Do your part to help by contacting Congress.
Challenging Lessons Chart Career Paths
Scholarship spurs students who were family caregivers to continue in the field professionally.
Precarious Aging: The Spatial Context of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Economic Security
The cost of remaining in one’s community intersects with life-course experiences and social identities to produce disparities in economic security at older ages.
Commonsense Updates to SSI Can Help 3.3 Million Americans Pull Themselves Out of Poverty
Income and eligibility rules for SSI have changed little since it was signed, in 1972.
How Peer-to-peer Interventions Can Combat Loneliness
Peer advocates will encourage elders to reconnect with friends and relatives with whom they’ve lost touch.
Achieving Nutrition Equity in Older Adults
Social determinants of health can impact quality of life on all fronts.
Mitigating Homelessness Among Older Adults: Adapting the Permanent Supportive Housing Model
Housing alone is not enough to address geriatric conditions in homeless older adults and improve their ability to age in place.
Life Lessons for Adults and Children
How to shrink the awareness gap about care plans between children and older adults.
Why We Must Support Our Hispanic/Latinx Caregivers
‘The caregiver experience for Hispanic/Latinx caregivers may differ depending upon their origin of birth.’
The Importance of Social Security as an Equalizer
Retirement wealth inequality is extreme—Black and Hispanic households have less than half the retirement wealth of White households.
An Opportune Moment for Socially Just Economic Strategies to Prevent Precarity
‘It is poverty, disadvantage, and inequality that reveal how unequal aging is structured and experienced.’
Working Family Caregivers: Diverse, Growing and Poised for Powerful Economic Contribution
In 2020, roughly 48 million people in the United States provided unpaid care to an adult.
On ASA Rise and Leadership Lessons Learned from the Program that Preceded It
The key message, which I carry with me to this day, is that at times I must leave my comfort zone to be an effective leader.
Ethical Dilemmas in Counseling Older Adults on Cannabis Use: Less Science, More Quandaries
‘Studies have shown the greatest increases in rates of cannabis use among older adults.’
Partnering with Community Organizations to Address Older Adult Loneliness
Introducing an effective, scalable, and sustainable approach to ameliorating loneliness