Experts explain how rejecting the fear of missing out can improve the quality of our lives.
Pressured by FOMO? It’s Time to Say ‘No’
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What the Numbers Say: The Stark Racial Divide in U.S. Inheritances
A primer on how we arrived at such wealth inequalities —and how they might continue.
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.
Caregiving and Retirement: Social Security and the Financial Strain of Eldercare
Caregivers often turn to Social Security payments to make ends meet, leaving them in a vulnerable position later in life.
Left Behind Twice: Fixing Social Security for Formerly Incarcerated Elders
Older adults leaving prison face a Catch-22 of bureaucracy, digital ignorance and limited help when applying for benefits.
Understanding Late Arriving Immigrants’ Social Security Eligibility and Retirement Security
This overlooked group faces steep barriers to finding work and then to accessing social safety net programs.
Supporting LGBTQ Older Adults in Retirement Through Research and Advocacy
Analyzing previous research in this cohort and new study group findings on financial issues in retirement.
The Precarity Trap
Employment instability in midlife and the challenge of working full-time past age 62.
Cash Is King: Effects of Un(der)reported Income on the Social Safety Net
How off the books work impacts workers’ benefits.
Student Debt Is Not Just for Kids
A mixed-methods analysis of the impact of student debt on retirement security and claiming age
Computers Block Access to Social Security
Exploring the role of digital trust as beneficiaries interact online with SSA services.
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.
Age-inclusion Isn’t a Nice-to-Have—It’s the Way Forward
We need to bring everyone into the circle, creating environments where people of all ages and backgrounds have a sense of belonging.