Prescient in the past, relevant today.
ASA’s Golden Child, Generations
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How Splendid to Explore ‘Gender and Age: A Focus on Women’
Tying the personal to the professional is a wise exercise in the evolution of women’s place in the world.
Generations, a Voice for Those Affected by the Care Management Evolution
The role of ASA and Generations in the Aging Network.
History Repeats Itself on the Page
Maybe we’ll learn from this most recent health disaster.
Innovating Like It’s 1976
We need to be smarter and bolder to formulate a politically and financially viable plan that succeeds in definitively helping older adults.
Medicare Has Sustainability Issues: Who Could Have Guessed?
One issue held several articles urging Medicare reform way back in 1996.
Remembering the Value of Legacy
Generations provided not only knowledge and scholarship, but a community.
Why Care Is So Fundamental
Shining a light on the disparities in care, caregiving, and women who make it work.
InsideThe Anniversary Issue: Revisiting Generations in ASA’s 70th YearGenerations Journal
Generations Journal, vol. 48, no. 3 (Fall 2024)
ASA’s Golden Child, Generations
One of the highlights of my career has been the opportunity to serve for 2 decades on the Editorial Advisory Board of Generations, the quarterly journal of the American Society on Aging—both as its chair and as a guest editor for three issues. Each issue of...
How Splendid to Explore ‘Gender and Age: A Focus on Women’
It's not unusual to wince when looking back at how we saw the world earlier in life—areas of innocence that became decidedly more complex and nuanced over time, invisible biases that once skewed our perceptions, situations that loomed with great significance yet...
Generations, a Voice for Those Affected by the Care Management Evolution
There are many great benefits to being an ASA member, which makes it hard to choose just one to focus on. I became a member of ASA to gain insight into all that I did not know about aging. For 10 years, I had been in what became the Aging Network, had the privilege of...
History Repeats Itself on the Page
This idea of rounding up former chairs of the Generations Editorial Advisory Board for a dedicated journal to mark ASA's 70th anniversary is delightful, and something to celebrate, indeed! For 7 1/2 years between 2006 and 2015 I served as chair of the Editorial...
Innovating Like It’s 1976
So much progress! Onward and upward we go in the field of aging, especially in policy and advocacy! Look at our sophisticated cross tabulations, be impressed by our rich data and sharp analyses, check out the way we use technology for advocacy campaigns! We've made so...
Medicare Has Sustainability Issues: Who Could Have Guessed?
The Medicare program has been a major boon to the United States' national well-being since its enactment in 1965, resulting in enormously improved access to high-quality, affordable health care for many millions of older and disabled Americans. But these benefits of...
Remembering the Value of Legacy
During the years in which I served on the Generations Editorial Advisory Board (1990-2012) and chaired it (1997-2001), single-themed issues of the journal were not so much assembled (as at a conventional journal) as curated. At in-person meetings of the board, members...
Why Care Is So Fundamental
Editing the publications of the American Society on Aging has always felt more like a privilege than a job. During the past 13 years working here, I have learned much more than I originally thought possible. I hadn't come into the job blind, mind you; likely the story...
Suggested citation for articles in this issue: [Last Name(s), First Name(s)]. “Article Title.” Generations Journal, vol. [#], no. [#] [season and year (ex. Fall 2024)]. [URL]
About Generations Journal
Generations Journal is the quarterly journal of the American Society on Aging. Each issue is devoted to bringing together the most useful and current knowledge about a specific topic in the field of aging, with emphasis on practice, research, and policy.