AgeSpan in Massachusetts benefits from a diverse service area and staff, which means ramping up racial equity training for service providers, funders and staff.
Applying Anti-Racist Initiatives to Promote Health Equity
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How Your Phone Could Save Your Eyesight
Exploring new digital health tools for older adults to monitor and manage eye disease at home.
How Shifting DOT Funding Priorities Hurts Grandma, Grandpa and Their Families
Concentrating federal transportation spending in high birth-rate areas may isolate elders in their neighborhoods.
Strategies to Reduce Healthcare Cost Burden via Medicare Savings Programs
Explaining MSPs and how to expand access to them.
On Homelessness, Housing and How We Got Here
Past opportunities, inflation are behind the wave of older adult homelessness, but viable solutions exist.
Students’ First-Hand Experience in Collaborative Geriatric Care
USC students meld healthcare knowledge with personally gathered on-the-ground details for better outcomes.
‘Your Grandma Is Here for You’
How Black grandmothers raising their grandchildren care for children’s social and emotional needs.
Keeping Families Together Via Better Guardianship Rules
Guardianship laws fall short of meeting the needs of BIPOC grandparents and the children in their care.
Getting By Is Not Enough
Poverty—A neglected driving force in skip-generation African-American caregiver households.
Family Dynamics When Grandchildren Are Not Siblings: An Opening Discussion
What we do and don’t know about the impact of family composition on family or child outcomes, particularly in grandparent-headed families.
A Case Study of Compound Caregiving by an African American Grandmother
Addressing the preferred ways extended family and healthcare providers might provide stress relief for compound caregivers.
A Glimpse into the Lives of African American Grandmothers Caring on the Margins
A lack of familial or community resources makes the grandmothering job all-consuming and nearly impossible.
The Power of Strength: A Tribute to My Grandmother and All Grandparents
Grandparents are key to raising grandchildren in the U.S., despite economic, emotional, and physical sacrifices.
Advocating for Grandparents Who Step in to Parent
Bolstering the village it takes to raise grandchildren whose parents are out of the picture.
Another New York Story
A new book chronicles how a nondescript bakery in Manhattan provides company for the struggles of late life.
Working Well Past Retirement
Older workers cite high cost of housing, necessities, for staying longer in the workforce.
The Fire Next Time
Natural disasters lay bare society’s deepest inequalities, and for older adults, challenges are life-changing and potentially life-threatening.
MPAs in Action: Incorporating Behavioral Health in Oklahoma
How Oklahoma’s MPA ensures that older adult mental health is a state priority.
Catching a Moving Target
Older adults try to adapt to fast-changing AI, other technology.
Reimagining How Black Elders Could Age in America
The Aging While Black movement is built upon three core pillars: Recalibrating the Village, Embracing Innovation, and Leaning into Sankofa.