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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.
Connecting Social Ties to Long Lives
A new book proves, via extensive interviews and research, how other countries outdo the U.S. in social networking, and how we might follow suit.
The Human Cost of Technical Debt
How failed technology perpetuates suffering in determining disability qualification for older adults.
Feeling Connected, Capable and Included
Enabling tech access and integration via New York’s Master Plan for Aging.
Could Wills Help Reduce the Racial Wealth Gap?
One promising avenue for reducing the wealth gap between Black and white households is to encourage more Black households to draft wills.
The Importance of Expanding Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Roles in New Rural Health Transformation Grant Applications
A Nov. 5 deadline looms for CMS program applications to make rural America healthy again via prevention, access, tech and workforce development.
The Age-Friendly Paradox
When good intentions meet structural limitations.
The Civil Rights Generation, the Great Wealth Transfer and Our Need to Address the Racial Wealth Divide
This transfer will most likely act as another brick in the wall of American economic segregation.
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