For employers struggling to find new talent, older adults can provide the experience they need.
The Age of Experience: Are Older Workers the Cornerstone of a New Workforce?
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ASA’s Golden Child, Generations
Prescient in the past, relevant today.
Why Care Is So Fundamental
Shining a light on the disparities in care, caregiving, and women who make it work.
One of Our Nation’s Fastest Growing Jobs Is Missing from the Electoral Debate
Candidates tend to talk around direct care work when they should propose concrete solutions.
How Research Can Influence Payment Policy
The crucial role of health policy research in disseminating the successful Hospital at Home program.
Funding for Practice–research Partnerships: It’s Elementary, My Dear Watson
A primer on the best ways to secure internal resources or grants for research projects.
What Juneteenth Means to Me and to Black Elders
Using the commemorative day as an inspiration for one’s life work.
Why Workforce Leaders Must Prioritize Home Care Training and Careers
‘These workers deserve good jobs, and all U.S. workers need access to quality care. Yet the latter is dependent upon the former.’
Where to Live During Retirement
Help for analyzing the feasibility of preferred living destinations in older age.
Insurance and Safety Issues Linked to Climate Change and Housing
The difficult state of the current insurance market in states experiencing regular climate events, and challenges linked to evacuation.
Where to Live Amid Climate Change
Increasingly, older adults need to take hard look at potential climate change effects when deciding where to live.
Ageism in the Productive Aging Framework
Focusing on ending ageism, especially as it intersects with other ‘isms,’ will improve the odds of everyone aging productively.
Older Entrepreneurs: Unsupported Economic Heroes
Illustrating the disparities in health insurance and retirement plan coverage among American entrepreneurs ages 50 to 64.
Whatever Happened to Retirement?
Book is a passionate portrayal of where the two halves of America fit in retirement.
Grandparents as Caregivers: A Changing Demographic with Unique Support Needs
Grandparents caring for grandchildren without a parent present in the household have emerged as a vulnerable group.
With Age, Blacks Fall Into Poverty as Their Health Worsens
The surest solutions involve government programs and government funding—which may prove difficult with today’s political polarization.
A Place to Call Home
Thoughts on the dire nature of available elder housing from ASA’s Economic Security Council.
We Must Foster Synergy Between Direct Care Workers and Family Caregivers
Our new effort aims to address profound needs by centering this caregiver dyad in policy and practice-related conversations.
To Stream or Not to Stream
Trends in TV, film and theater that indicate what elders might actually appreciate.
‘Who Do They Think We Are?’
When marketers and advertisers ignore or target consumers in ageist ways, their bottom line isn’t the only thing that suffers.