Generations Now

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.

Member-advocates brought data, lived experience, leadership and compassion into conversations with Congressional offices.

‘We can’t afford to look away from direct care workforce challenges that are both longstanding and compounded by current political trends.’

How opioids and psychotropics became a symptom of overmedicalization in our care for the young and old.

Why aging networks must reckon with economic inequities.

On Bad Bunny and how many centuries it has taken for Latinos to claim their belonging in the United States.

How older adults should be working with younger people in the fight to protect workers from the AI incursion.

Centering Black women’s economic security, honoring elders, and ensuring dollars and dignity flow forward are all key to such reimagining.

As programming is slashed and anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric ramps up, we must fight to preserve this population’s hard-earned rights.

Friendly Visitors program provides path to form a friendship and stave off social isolation.