Maryland Department of Aging routinely recycles durable medical equipment for those who need it.
Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle: Or How to Save DME from Ending Up in the Landfill
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Call for Applications for the 2023–24 Health and Aging Policy Fellowship Year
Program fosters leaders who change health and aging policy and improve healthcare for elders.
Opening Minds Through Art
A program builds bridges across age and cognitive barriers using art.
Nature Really Is Medicine, This Caregiver Learned
Access to nature returned my mother’s will to live—and made me a biophilia advocate.
New Interactive Guide Looks to Make Aging in Place a Healthy Reality for More Americans
ASA members can foster the growth of PACE via the new guide.
New Generations United Report Highlights Grandfamilies’ Struggles with Food Insecurity
Existing help for food insecure families tends to assume kids live with parents, not grandparents, and should be fixed to reflect reality. .
Standing Next to Ethan Moreno
From winging it to glory.
A Salute to Grandmothers
On time and fashions passing by,
This Body of Mine
With thanks and gratitude.
Old Woman’s Lament
Or how to keep on walking.
For Dylan Thomas Who Also Did Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Don’t look for me at AARP conventions, sipping Earl Grey tea from a bone china cup.
Three Poems
‘You know we’re all different?’
Dignity Series
Levity, music and air.
Missing My Mother and Moving Through Grief
How musical memories lessen the feelings of loss.
My Grandmother’s Last Lesson
How to exit the stage on one’s own terms.
The Subtext (or A Messy Draft)
‘Slow down or you’re never going to get it.’
A Lesson in Determination
Nothing but admiration for a woman living alone against all odds.
Banking in Absentia
A complicated relationship remembered when severing odd financial ties.
Mama Mia and Keys
Acrylic on Paper Paintings
The Brushstrokes of Dementia
How an artist’s work was transformed by dementia.