The U.S. and Germany have approached their long-term care landscapes differently—what can be learned from each country?
Two Countries, Two Paths to Long-Term Care
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Health and Home
The role of Medicaid and managed care in home- and community-based services and long-term supportive services.
AddnAide: Lessons from the National Home-Care Workforce Shortage
How an Ohio Area Agency on Aging created an app that expands access to self-directed care.
Beyond Home Care—What Now?
‘Ensuring the comfort and dignity of older adults requires us to consider an “all-of-the-above” strategy.’
America’s Home-care Crisis
Will vulnerable elders be forced into nursing homes?
Why Is Where You Live So Important?
Rounding up the various risk profiles of housing and neighborhoods, and effects on elders.
Consequences of Increasing Housing Cost Burdens in Older Households
Challenges paying for housing can worsen health, make repairs impossible, and lead to unwanted or unnecessary moves.
The Generation That Paved the Way, Finally at Home
Affordability, unity and companionship are built into this LGBTQ+ welcoming senior housing development in Boston.
Integrating Rural Age-Friendly Care Initiatives into States’ RHTP Implementation
The RHTP must be paired with durable reforms to ensure rural Americans have reliable access to care for years to come.
Belonging as a Policy Imperative: Reflections on ASA’s Virtual Hill Day
Member-advocates brought data, lived experience, leadership and compassion into conversations with Congressional offices.
As a Matter of Fact(s), Direct Care Workers Need Our Attention—More Than Ever
‘We can’t afford to look away from direct care workforce challenges that are both longstanding and compounded by current political trends.’
The Wealth Transfer We Can’t Ignore
Why aging networks must reckon with economic inequities.
The New Face of Family Caregiving
A detailed laying out of who cares for whom, prefaced by the author’s lived experience as a caregiver.
One Millennial’s Multigenerational Caregiving Experience
Growing up fast under the shadow of HIV.
Reimagining Wealth Transfer: Legacy, Exclusion and Possibility
Centering Black women’s economic security, honoring elders, and ensuring dollars and dignity flow forward are all key to such reimagining.
Breaking Through the Walls of Loneliness
Friendly Visitors program provides path to form a friendship and stave off social isolation.
Ways to Ensure Retirement Doesn’t Bite
It’s all about envisioning one’s dreams and figuring out how best to act on them.
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.
On Timing, Termination, and Suppression of Research and Science
A precious monument to Social Security and a plea for policy attention.
The Complex Impact of ‘On’ and ‘Off the Books’ Work
Estimating what we miss about direct care workers’ employment, earnings, and retirement savings.