Social Security’s one shortcoming is that its vital benefits are too low.
For Supporters of Social Security, This Year’s Election is Crucial
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A Call to Action: Elder Justice and the Movement to Defund the Police
‘Black older adults are likely not to seek help from abuse because of the risk of racial discrimination.’
Oral Health Is Key in Pneumonia Prevention
‘During the first year of the two-year study, pneumonia incidence was reduced by 31 percent among nursing home residents.’
Structural Racism—A Key Driver in Health Disparities
Stress is probably a key player in the association of racism with cognition.
Partnering during the pandemic: Evolving on the fly in Wisconsin
How do we reinvent ourselves? How do we leverage what we had and make it so super cool that it’s irresistible?
Older Voters Will Vote, But Not as a Bloc
‘They are not a monolith or a lock for either party. How older adults vote depends upon who they are and where they live.’
What Will Candidates Say About Medicare This Election?
Biden’s proposal would give the HHS Secretary authority to negotiate drug prices.
The Older White Male Ticket and How We Got Here
‘The mood of the country seems to be not so much a desire for change as a desire for normalcy.’
Are Presidential Candidates Even Thinking About Aging?
‘Gallup found that 54 percent of respondents ages 65 and older support recent racial justice protests.’
The Line Between Choice and Fate
‘For some, I was the only person they spoke to all day.’
Climate Change or COVID-19: What’s Your Story?
‘These older adults have rewritten the stories they tell themselves about climate change.’
Undeterred: Three Voting Advocates on Why They Persist
‘Voting is such a fundamental right.’
Aging While Living in a Digital World
‘Older adults are already leading more digitally connected lives.’
Post-COVID-19 community integration: the case for equity by design
The window that COVID-19 has pried open presents an opportunity to address and transcend the functional consequences of segregation, and to develop and implement a community integration strategy based on the enduring value of healthy, diverse and enabling communities.
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Inside This IssueThe Presidential Election
Generations Today, vol. 41, no. 5 (Sept-Oct 2020)
For Supporters of Social Security, This Year’s Election is Crucial
In November 2020, voters have an extremely consequential choice about Social Security. Who is elected will likely determine whether Social Security is expanded or cut and perhaps even radically transformed. Starting in the 1970s, a billionaire-funded campaign has...
A Call to Action: Elder Justice and the Movement to Defund the Police
Editor's note: This summer, as the urgent issue of racial injustice took center stage, ASA and Justice in Aging decided to embark upon a series of articles in Generations Today highlighting for the aging advocacy community how aging, identity and...
Oral Health Is Key in Pneumonia Prevention
The concept of nursing homes has always been off-putting to some, and the global pandemic certainly hasn't altered that opinion in a positive direction. However, nursing homes differ widely and many are striving not only to keep their residents safe, but also to...
Structural Racism—A Key Driver in Health Disparities
The COVID-19 mortality rate for Black Americans is triple that for white Americans. This appalling difference in mortality has helped to awaken Americans to the large racial health disparities that exist in the United States. These disparities are longstanding and...
Partnering during the pandemic: Evolving on the fly in Wisconsin
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 the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (n4a). The mission of The Aging and...
Older Voters Will Vote, But Not as a Bloc
If we've learned anything in 2020, it's that absolutely nothing should be taken for granted. The coronavirus pandemic has upended our daily lives. We're not going to baseball games or movies. We're visiting friends and family online instead of in person. And, looking...
What Will Candidates Say About Medicare This Election?
Medicare—the nation's health insurance program for more than 60 million people ages 65 and older and younger adults with permanent disabilities—is often an election issue, particularly among older voters. Historically, Medicare and Social Security have been election...
The Older White Male Ticket and How We Got Here
When he took the oath of office in January 2017, Donald J. Trump became the oldest person, at age 70, to ever assume the presidency of the United States, breaking the record set by Ronald Reagan in 1980, and far outside the average age of 55. This fall, voters will...
Are Presidential Candidates Even Thinking About Aging?
We soon will conduct the first U.S. presidential election in which both major-party candidates for President are older than age 70. Whoever is sworn in on January 20, 2021 will be our oldest President. With that in mind, are the candidates thinking about aging issues?...
The Line Between Choice and Fate
My father was always clear about how he wanted to die. Years before there was any California law concerning it, he told us that he would end his life rather than depend upon anyone taking care of him. He was not going to be in a wheelchair, be fed or diapered. ...
Climate Change or COVID-19: What’s Your Story?
“I'm not anxious. I'm frozen.” Bob surprised me. He's a bright, experienced theater director. He thinks through sequences of action and dialogue, skillfully eliciting meaning and emotion from his words and from the actors. I was trying to get him to reflect on the...
Undeterred: Three Voting Advocates on Why They Persist
As the presidential election heats up and both sides grouse about who they need to get to the polls and how they might make that happen, Generations Today spoke with three older women who are burning up phone lines making personal pleas of new or never before voters...
Aging While Living in a Digital World
Editor's Note: This Generations Today column, “Aging While...” is sponsored by AARP Foundation. It focuses on creating and advancing innovative solutions that help older Americans build economic opportunity and social connectedness. When Betty McKennon, 83,...
Post-COVID-19 community integration: the case for equity by design
Editor's Note: This column is sponsored by AARP Thought Leadership and International. AARP Thought Leadership and International drives the creation of a marketplace for new ideas by advancing emerging issues, challenges the status quo and inspires new solutions that...