What might it take to legitimize elderhood as a stage of life?
Elderhood: A New Vision for Later Life
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Shibui: The Japanese Art of Finding Beauty in Aging
On learning to appreciate aging and find alternate ways of facing death.
The Optimist’s Call to Action
How can we take Connected Communities from a model to a movement?
The Caregiving Divide
A faultline running through work, family, and policy.
Care for America: The Intertwined Futures of Care for American Families and Immigrants
Growing the immigrant care workforce will be a critical part of any solution to our nation’s care crisis, yet we’re currently doing the opposite.
Where Aging Actually Happens
A thoughtful proposition on how, as much of elder care happens at home, its delivery might be substantially improved.
A Bold Vision for Aging Black Lesbians
Care, community, and the future we must build.
A Bold Vision for a Society Connected, Rather Than Divided, by Aging
Radical inclusion is the key.
Portraits of a Bold Vision of Our Aging Selves
Elders evolve through the power of art.
Supporting Older Adult Vitality and Nutrition for Healthy Aging
‘Vitality can act upstream, shaping other capacities rather than directly impacting functional impairment.’
New Medicare Policy Change Supports Nutrition’s Role in Preventive Care
With many factors contributing to nutrition risks, including diseases, medical treatments, functional health, social/mental health, and quality of diet/food access, agreed-upon tools for reliably assessing such risks are helpful.
In 2005, We Were Promised Smart Medicine Cabinets. We Got AI. Which Is Better?
AI is only as good as the system in place to support it and the oversight to mind it.
Beyond Social Connection
Designing community for mental well-being in later life.
The Hope That Fuels Me
Why this ASA RISE alum strives to help the practice of Occupational Therapy reach its full potential.
How to Use an Equity Lens at the Helpline?
One ASA RISE alum’s successful effort to weave equity into her daily, critical work helping people who call in to the Alzheimer’s Association.
Connecting Generations: Lessons from Six Decades of Intergenerational Practice
When intergenerational connection is intentional and sustained, it can transform individual lives and entire communities.
An Intergenerational Life
Early glimpses of what’s possible when generations connect left this leader wanting—and pushing—for more.
The Life-changing Effects of Connection, Creativity and Community
‘Intergenerational connection is not just a program model. It’s a way of living with purpose, presence and generosity.’
The Back-and-Forth Benefits from Intergenerational Chatting
Lessons from Link Generations’ programming that connects teens with older adults.
Relationships Are the Heart of All Seasons Preschool
All Seasons Preschool in Minnesota hosts a thriving intergenerational relationship-building program where students form bonds with older adults.