At UCSF’s Social Connections and Aging Lab, work is afoot to enhance awareness of social isolation and loneliness and cooperate with community groups to foster connection.
Coalition Building for Social Connection
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Wealth Disparities in a Moment of Unprecedented Intergenerational Wealth Transfer
Early insights from roundtable discussions in geographically diverse areas of the United States.
Nothing About Us Without Us
The importance of research, advocacy and centering community voices in the quest for equitable aging in place.
The Power of Mindset in Healthy Aging
“Whether you think you can or think you can’t—you’re right,” said Henry Ford.
Nowhere to Go But Up
On the calculable benefits of great mentorship.
Preparing the Aging Sector for Leaders of Color
The RISE program doesn’t only prepare leaders of color for the aging sector, the reverse can be even more critical to their success.
Understanding Late-Life Anxiety: Symptoms and Treatment Options
Anxiety can cause a host of unpleasant symptoms, so it’s best caught and treated early.
Aching and Baking: Why Older Adults with Chronic Illness Are Turning to Cannabis
Cannabis may be more accessible, but elders should tread lightly due to medication interactions and other higher risks.
A Menopause Primer
Laying out the facts about this complex process as they are now known, and potential treatments.
Menopause: Why the Stigma?
On busting the stigmatized relationship our culture has with menopause, and why it matters.
Caregiving and the Menopause Experience
The odds of experiencing more severe menopause symptoms is directly related to the number of hours spent in the caregiving role.
The ‘Menopausal Turn’ and the New Menopause Market
Destigmatizing ‘the change’ or amplifying anxiety?
Artivist Research Centers Menopause Across Countries and Cultures
Using comic strips and body mapping from workers and migrants on menopause knowledge to enhance awareness.
Good Reads on Menopause
Four books everyone should read and learn from.
Meeting the Change
An old woman speaks to the challenge of menopause.
Designing for Belonging: What We Learned—and Shared—in Japan
We brought home the idea that systems require structure, but humans require meaning.
The Treat and Reduce Obesity Act: An Advocacy Agenda for Equitable Healthy Aging
Connecting the prevention and treatment of obesity with broader goals for aging.
Key Economic Issues Facing Aging Americans: Gender Differences
A rather bleak financial picture faces women as they age, often without partners, and relying solely upon Social Security.
Artificial Intelligence: An Overview
Explaining how we got to where we are with AI today and what it means.
Alone in the Digital Age: When Technology Forgets to Grow Old With Us
Potential reforms exist to prevent digital ageism and AI biases.