Who are paid caregivers, and how are they impacting our lives?
The Realities of Paid Caregiving in the United States
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The New Face of Family Caregiving
A detailed laying out of who cares for whom, prefaced by the author’s lived experience as a caregiver.
Aging-in-Place, Caregiving and the Future of the Longevity Economy
As Medicare funding declines, tech innovators should bring prices more in line with consumer needs.
A Boomer’s Cognitive Dissonance About Caregiving
Pondering the inevitability of needing care, and setting limits.
The Identity Crisis Behind ‘Caregiver Overwhelm’: A Gen-X Perspective
Finding a way to lighten the emotional load of caregiving, while still doing the work.
Empowering Family Caregivers with Hope, Support and Purpose
On how one caregiver’s experience taught her how to live.
Rebuilding the Village
When caregiving is one’s cultural inheritance.
One Millennial’s Multigenerational Caregiving Experience
Growing up fast under the shadow of HIV.
The AI Resistance Needs Experience, Not Just Rebellion
How older adults should be working with younger people in the fight to protect workers from the AI incursion.
Reimagining Wealth Transfer: Legacy, Exclusion and Possibility
Centering Black women’s economic security, honoring elders, and ensuring dollars and dignity flow forward are all key to such reimagining.
Older LGBTQ+ People Need Your Support and Advocacy
As programming is slashed and anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric ramps up, we must fight to preserve this population’s hard-earned rights.
Breaking Through the Walls of Loneliness
Friendly Visitors program provides path to form a friendship and stave off social isolation.
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.
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.
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.
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.