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Building Resilience and Fostering Adaptation to Climate Change
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has embarked on multiple efforts to prepare Americans.
Stepping Out of Our Lane
Current events sometimes call for more direct action.
Today’s Victories for Direct Care Workers Took Decades of Activism
In 2020 we heard the first significant acknowledgement of direct care workers from a presidential candidate.
5 Easy Ways to Support People with Hearing Loss
Learn to help older adults use hearing aids more effectively and how to change one’s own habits when connecting with elders.
Learning from COVID. Or Not.
Detailing ways to ensure nurse aides hired during the pandemic are sufficiently trained.
ASA RISE: Connecting the Dots Between Caregiving, DEI Work and Aging
I have a deeper appreciation of how many of our healthcare systems are riddled with systematic racism.
Supreme Court Issues Decision Upholding Puerto Ricans’ Exclusion from SSI
‘Mr. Vaello-Madero didn’t understand he no longer qualified for SSI benefits after a change of address.’
Older Adults Will Benefit from a New Proposed CMS Malnutrition Quality Measure
The measure is one way to help reduce drivers of inequitable access to malnutrition care and nutritious food.
Call to Action on Economic Security and Climate
Outtakes from On Aging 2022.
ASA RISE: Powering Change Through a Brave Space
‘It has built a network of truly inspirational professionals of color in the aging field.’
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