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Vision Rehabilitation Transforms Lives
Big Data Project demonstrates wide gap in health metrics between people living with vision loss and those without, prior to vision rehabilitation.
Often Overlooked: Malnutrition with Overweight and Obesity
Nutrition screening tools typically rely on low body mass index, missing malnutrition in people with overweight and obesity
Why Pair 2 Care Is a Crucial Program for Black Caregivers of People with Dementia
Listen as Dr. Karen Moss describes her program Pair 2 Care, how it works and why participants are resonating with it.
Upcoming Hill Day to Advocate for Indigenous Elders Facing Obesity
Our Hill visit will stress the need to incorporate culturally sensitive options into federal health insurance programs.
Leveraging Multisector Plans for Aging to Promote Health Equity
How to get involved!
Cooking with the Spirit of My Ancestors
Student chef cooks Southern family traditions via modern recipes.
Where to Live During Retirement
Help for analyzing the feasibility of preferred living destinations in older age.
Stark Climate Realities Affect Native Food Gathering
How climate directly impacts the author’s habits and what far-reaching impacts may be.
Resurgence of Indigenous Food Traditions Helps Heal Bodies and Spirits
Stories of Indigenous peoples across the country welcoming and benefiting from Native food programs demonstrate their effectiveness.
Tomato Season
A simple sandwich helps one hang onto memories.
Food as Culture and Cure
One journey from native food to American and back to nearly an ancestral diet.
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.
Increasing Access to Medical Nutrition Therapy
Such access can improve health and help achieve goals of the Food as Medicine Movement.
Where to Live Amid Climate Change
Increasingly, older adults need to take hard look at potential climate change effects when deciding where to live.
Tackling the Complex Issue of Obesity Among Indigenous Elders
The Food is Medicine Movement and other ways Indigenous elders are reconnecting with traditional ways of eating to help prevent obesity.
Tackling Healthcare Bias Against Older Adults with Obesity
The Obesity Bill of Rights should be a call to action for policymakers and employer retirement plans to think differently about the medical needs of people ages 60 and older with obesity.
Aging with a History of Trauma: How Service Providers Can Help
Recent retraumatization of Holocaust survivors provides a need for person-centered, trauma-informed care.
Intergenerational Theory as a Tool to Diversify Practice and Policy
Why grounding intergenerational programming in theory increases their chances of success.
Achieving an Equitable Society Through Intergenerational Programming and Research
Programs connecting generations show incredible promise and should be expanded upon nationwide.