Studies are necessary to help develop health interventions and improve clinical practice for this population.
Building Community with African Immigrant Older Adults to Improve Function
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Challenges in Stroke Care and Potential Preventive Practices
Preventing stroke and caring for those who’ve had strokes should involve public health, clinical care and the community.
It All Starts With Clinical Trials: The NIA’s Dr. Patricia Jones on How to Make Them Inclusive
Clinical trials should include diverse study participants because such studies are intended to benefit the public and improve the quality of everyone’s life.
We Can End Homelessness Among Older Adults
Policy solutions can be put in place now to ensure all older adults have a safe place to age with dignity.
The Fierce Urgency of Now
Leslie Alden leads a climate and sustainability effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2033.
Afro- and Age-Futurism: Imagining a Better Future for All Elders
Walking ancestors, or living older adults, can help us visualize a more inclusive future.
On Menopause, Ageism, Sexism and Reimagining This Life Phase
‘I was interested in writing in a more raw and real way about what happens to the female body as it’s aging.’
A Q&A With Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford on Treating the Disease Obesity
I realized we have the tools in medicine to have a major impact on weight status.
Housing Plus: Hebrew SeniorLife’s Embedded Prevention Pilot Reaps Rewards
The nonprofit provides services to about 3,000 older adults in the Boston area.
If You Care about Healthy Longevity, You Should Care about Rising Wealth Inequality
Likely it’s the opportunities that wealth affords—healthcare access and reduced stress—that lead to better health, not the wealth itself.
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Inside This IssueThe Latest in Medical Discoveries in Aging
Generations Today, vol. 42, no. 6 (Nov-Dec 2021)
Building Community with African Immigrant Older Adults to Improve Function
Despite their growing numbers, research on the functional health of African immigrants in the U.S. is limited. Two reasons for this include: the aggregation of all Blacks as a group, and the underrepresentation of this population in research. Increasingly, there have...
Challenges in Stroke Care and Potential Preventive Practices
According to the American Heart Association, stroke is the No. 5 cause of death in the United States. About 1 in every 18 deaths in the United States is due to stroke. But owing to medical advances in the past two decades, stroke outcomes have dramatically improved...
It All Starts With Clinical Trials: The NIA’s Dr. Patricia Jones on How to Make Them Inclusive
Patricia Jones, DrPH, MPH, MS, MBA, directs the Office of Special Populations at the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Generations Today spoke with her in mid-October for this issue on medical discoveries about how...
We Can End Homelessness Among Older Adults
The reality on our streets right now is that an unprecedented number of older adults are becoming homeless later in life, or aging on the street, causing untold suffering for our older neighbors and our communities. And even more low-income older adults are...
The Fierce Urgency of Now
Growing up near Golden Gate Park in San Francisco's Richmond District, Leslie Alden was riding city buses by herself when she was in second grade. She witnessed Vietnam War protests, civil rights marches, second wave feminism and the free speech movement by the time...
Afro- and Age-Futurism: Imagining a Better Future for All Elders
Aging in place came into prominence in the 1970s, with research investigating why older adults preferred to age where they lived versus being moved to facilities outside their communities. The emphasis was on place, and the interaction of the older adult with their...
On Menopause, Ageism, Sexism and Reimagining This Life Phase
Darcey Steinke is the author of six books, five of them novels and the most recent, from 2019, called “Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life,” a memoir that blends her personal trip through menopause with extensive research. Focusing on how...
A Q&A With Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford on Treating the Disease Obesity
Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, MBA, is Director of Equity for the Endocrine Division at Massachusetts General Hospital and has completed a three-year fellowship in obesity medicine. There are only approximately 55 obesity fellowship-trained physicians in the...
Housing Plus: Hebrew SeniorLife’s Embedded Prevention Pilot Reaps Rewards
Editor's note: The John A. Hartford Foundation, the Administration for Community Living (ACL) and The SCAN Foundation fund the Aging and Disability Business Institute, led by USAging. The mission of the Aging and Disability Business Institute is to build and...
If You Care about Healthy Longevity, You Should Care about Rising Wealth Inequality
Editor's Note: This column is sponsored by the AARP Thought Leadership and International team. Thought Leadership and International seeks to position AARP as a global thought leader by identifying emerging trends around the world, cultivating and elevating new ideas...