Older adults leaving prison face a Catch-22 of bureaucracy, digital ignorance and limited help when applying for benefits.
Left Behind Twice: Fixing Social Security for Formerly Incarcerated Elders
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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.
Burn Out Reimagined: Extreme Heat, Work Disability, and Sociodemographic Disparities in America
As temperatures rise and our labor force ages, protecting workers from extreme heat on the job becomes crucial.
Uprooted in Later Life
Disparities in natural disaster displacement among older Americans and their impact on well-being.
The Human Cost of Technical Debt
How failed technology perpetuates suffering in determining disability qualification for older adults.
Feeling Connected, Capable and Included
Enabling tech access and integration via New York’s Master Plan for Aging.
Could Wills Help Reduce the Racial Wealth Gap?
One promising avenue for reducing the wealth gap between Black and white households is to encourage more Black households to draft wills.
The Civil Rights Generation, the Great Wealth Transfer and Our Need to Address the Racial Wealth Divide
This transfer will most likely act as another brick in the wall of American economic segregation.
Age-inclusion Isn’t a Nice-to-Have—It’s the Way Forward
We need to bring everyone into the circle, creating environments where people of all ages and backgrounds have a sense of belonging.
The Power of Belonging in Aging
The On Aging theme of belonging should be the core of aging services and advocacy.
When We Cheer for Fat Bears but Stigmatize Fat People
While we obsess over fat bears for fun, let’s lend some compassion to older people struggling with obesity and take action on the TROA bill.
Lift Your Voice for Those Who May Think They Don’t Have One
An advocate for older immigrants on why she helps those who tend to stay in the shadows.
Securing Intergenerational Wealth by Investing in Anti-Poverty Programs for Older Adults
The ability to build and pass on wealth should not be a privilege reserved for the few, but a right for all older adults.
The New Brain Economy: Promoting Cognitively Healthy Life Expectancies
What does it mean to live more years cognitively healthy, and how might we get there?