Growing up fast under the shadow of HIV.
One Millennial’s Multigenerational Caregiving Experience
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The AI Resistance Needs Experience, Not Just Rebellion
How older adults should be working with younger people in the fight to protect workers from the AI incursion.
Older LGBTQ+ People Need Your Support and Advocacy
As programming is slashed and anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric ramps up, we must fight to preserve this population’s hard-earned rights.
A New Blueprint for Action to Advance Comprehensive Nutrition and Obesity Care
‘A more comprehensive policy approach is needed to leverage effective engagement and coordination across stakeholder groups.’
Care Is What Connects Us
Family caregiving and the practice of belonging.
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.
Belonging Across the Veil
What Halloween and Día de los Muertos teach us about aging and connection.
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.
Cash Is King: Effects of Un(der)reported Income on the Social Safety Net
How off the books work impacts workers’ benefits.
Student Debt Is Not Just for Kids
A mixed-methods analysis of the impact of student debt on retirement security and claiming age
Computers Block Access to Social Security
Exploring the role of digital trust as beneficiaries interact online with SSA services.