‘Systemic inequities have led to higher poverty rates for people of color, LGBTQ+ older adults and women.’
Toward Economic Security for Older Adults: The Time Is Now
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Workforce Aging: The Key to an Innovative Future
Older learners want transferable career skills four areas, including tech, communication, networking and well-being.
Trusted Contacts: Help Older Adults Can Take to the Bank
Enabling another line of protection for older adults’ finances.
Summer Call for Proposals for On Aging 2023 Active Right Now
Take a break from vacation and get that On Aging proposal polished!
A Model Mentoring Match
The ASA RISE mentorship component exceeds expectations.
ASA RISE Mentorship and What it Means to Me
Having a mentor that knows my challenges and matches my interests is imperative in the field of aging.
San Francisco’s Answer to Housing Unhoused Elders
Collaboration between the health, aging, human services and homelessness sectors is fostering productive ideas in the city.
USAging’s Managed Care Summit: Innovations, Workforce and Behavioral Health
Three-hours of panels were rich with solutions.
It’s Not OK with My Soul
A skid row doctor on why homeless people with psychiatric illnesses and/or dementia need our help and empathy.
Climate Change, Disasters, Aging and Homelessness
‘Environmental inequities are social inequities, resulting in health and economic disparities.’
A Shortage of Affordable Homes Is Driving the Surge in Older Adult Homelessness
‘Today, more than 3 million older adults live in households that are severely rental cost burdened.’
Round and Round We Go: Or the Way Services Work for People Who Are Homeless
Mental illness, drug use, abuse and dementia can all make help hard to secure.
Causes of Homelessness Among Elders and How We Might Eliminate ‘Homeism’
Reasons for becoming homeless are many, but discrimination and stigmatization happen to all.
Over the Edge: Older Adult Homelessness in Contemporary America
‘Researchers project continued and significant growth in older adult homelessness across the next decade.’
Today’s Victories for Direct Care Workers Took Decades of Activism
In 2020 we heard the first significant acknowledgement of direct care workers from a presidential candidate.
Learning from COVID. Or Not.
Detailing ways to ensure nurse aides hired during the pandemic are sufficiently trained.
Supreme Court Issues Decision Upholding Puerto Ricans’ Exclusion from SSI
‘Mr. Vaello-Madero didn’t understand he no longer qualified for SSI benefits after a change of address.’
Call to Action on Economic Security and Climate
Outtakes from On Aging 2022.
A Place to Call Home
One county in the Bay Area is reducing the number of unhoused people to ‘functional zero.’
The Economic Impact of the Pandemic on Older Adults
Government response has been insufficient to mitigate the impact of a public health crisis that is compounding decades of exclusion and discrimination.