As programming is slashed and anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric ramps up, we must fight to preserve this population’s hard-earned rights.
Older LGBTQ+ People Need Your Support and Advocacy
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Breaking Through the Walls of Loneliness
Friendly Visitors program provides path to form a friendship and stave off social isolation.
Care Is What Connects Us
Family caregiving and the practice of belonging.
Pressured by FOMO? It’s Time to Say ‘No’
Experts explain how rejecting the fear of missing out can improve the quality of our lives.
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.
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.
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.