Friendly Visitors program provides path to form a friendship and stave off social isolation.
Breaking Through the Walls of Loneliness
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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.
Pressured by FOMO? It’s Time to Say ‘No’
Experts explain how rejecting the fear of missing out can improve the quality of our lives.
Beyond the Numbers: Supporting Older Adults with Prediabetes Through Improved Diet Quality
Providing a framework on food choices for optimal dietary quality.
Intergenerational Relationships and Social Interaction
How community-based interventions to tackle loneliness can decrease the risk of neurodegeneration among older adults.
Transforming Advocacy into Action
Creating the Expanding Age Advocacy guide held lessons in accurately capturing real-life narratives and why this can foster action.
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.
The Social Security Retirement Earnings Test
What lower-income workers and retirees need to know.
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.
Connecting Social Ties to Long Lives
A new book proves, via extensive interviews and research, how other countries outdo the U.S. in social networking, and how we might follow suit.
The Importance of Expanding Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Roles in New Rural Health Transformation Grant Applications
A Nov. 5 deadline looms for CMS program applications to make rural America healthy again via prevention, access, tech and workforce development.
The Age-Friendly Paradox
When good intentions meet structural limitations.
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.
The End of Aging as We Know It
Increased life expectancy, longevity medicine, potential limits on childbirths, what could it all mean?
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.