Consumers, local providers, state agencies, and federal policymakers all want data about older adults being served.
Difficulties Demonstrating the Impact of OAA Programming and Glimmers of Hope
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Doing Business: A Pathway to Coordination
Why AAAs are busy contracting with community-based organizations, and how it’s paying off.
The Older Americans Act: Looking Back and Thinking Forward
The Act combines national policy aspiration and ambition in spreading services across America, plus optimism that our country can enable older adults age successfully in place.
Success: An Original Area Agency on Aging at 50 Years
SEVAMP embraced innovation as its guiding principle.
Reflections on Title VII 30 Years Later
A detailed, personal look at what’s in Title VII, what’s not, and what its funding covers.
Title VI of the Older Americans Act: Past, Present, and Future
‘In 2021, 282 Title VI grantees received more than $80 million in grant funding.’
Understanding the OAA’s Purpose and Role in the Modern Life of Older Adults
New resources help state aging directors learn the history of the OAA and how it works.
Vision: Meet Reality
Elusive historical topic, combined with COVID-19 challenges meant a difficult shepherding of this edition.
Balancing Mission and Momentum
Area Agencies on Aging address social determinants of health via healthcare contracting.
The Older Americans Act from the Inside: An Interview with Deputy Assistant Secretary for Aging Edwin Walker
The OAA has never gotten the credit that it deserves.
On the Older Americans Act and Why We Need to Pay Attention to History
Nothing survives in public service without advocacy, maintaining a foundation, and learning what to do better.
Reading2Connect Allows Older Adults with Dementia to Re-engage with a Lifelong Habit
Memory impairment doesn’t dampen our innate sense of curiosity and exploration.
10 Reasons to Advance Equity for Direct Care Workers
PHI launched a new institute to address structural inequities and profound disparities facing direct care workers.
Ignite Career Center Finds Jobs Matching Elders’ Skill Sets
Older adults often don’t realize their life/career stories hold value.
Solving the Long-Term Care Facility Crisis
Resources desperately needed to prevent severe staffing shortages and poor working conditions in LTC facilities.
Why Older Workers Need Unions—Now More Than Ever
‘Unions are the single most effective way to protect older workers’ seniority and job security.’
An Inescapable Network of Mutuality: Our Commitment to ASA Rise
Launching the next generation of BIPOC leaders in Aging.
Treasuring Work at Age 75
Developing trainings for family dementia caregivers keeps her brain stimulated and shares her extensive knowledge.
Redefining Retirement
Bill Glover finds passion, purpose with in-home caregiving.
Embodying Healthy Aging with a Multigenerational Workforce at the NY Academy of Medicine
Carolyn Stem on what she’s learned in an intergenerational workplace.