The RHTP must be paired with durable reforms to ensure rural Americans have reliable access to care for years to come.
Integrating Rural Age-Friendly Care Initiatives into States’ RHTP Implementation
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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.
Contending With Home Care Needs After a Work Disability
Who tends to become disabled, what benefits are available for caregiving, and how might benefits impact household income long-term?
Caregiving and Retirement: Social Security and the Financial Strain of Eldercare
Caregivers often turn to Social Security payments to make ends meet, leaving them in a vulnerable position later in life.
Unseen Costs: How Providing Eldercare Impacts Work and Economic Security
Women are more likely to receive care, and many other findings from a study of HRS, ATUS, and CPS data.
Left Behind Twice: Fixing Social Security for Formerly Incarcerated Elders
Older adults leaving prison face a Catch-22 of bureaucracy, digital ignorance and limited help when applying for benefits.
Understanding Late Arriving Immigrants’ Social Security Eligibility and Retirement Security
This overlooked group faces steep barriers to finding work and then to accessing social safety net programs.
The Social Security Retirement Earnings Test
What lower-income workers and retirees need to know.
Supporting LGBTQ Older Adults in Retirement Through Research and Advocacy
Analyzing previous research in this cohort and new study group findings on financial issues in retirement.
The Precarity Trap
Employment instability in midlife and the challenge of working full-time past age 62.