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Leveraging Multisector Plans for Aging to Promote Health Equity
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When a Food’s Poignant History Is Hard to Forget
Relishing a grandmother’s almost perfect baos.
Cooking with the Spirit of My Ancestors
Student chef cooks Southern family traditions via modern recipes.
How to Manage Diabetes Simply in a Not-So-Simple Program
The Cray Diabetes Self-Management program at the University of Kansas treats, informs, and connects participants.
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.
Cherry-Picking Food from One’s Past
Why did his grandmother decide some dishes should remain behind after they immigrated?
What I Weighed: Reflections on a Lifetime of Dieting
Later life lessons in wresting some of that time back from thinking about dieting.
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.
Let’s Break this Bread and Eat
On how culinary traditions click with chosen family.
Food as Culture and Cure
One journey from native food to American and back to nearly an ancestral diet.
Demonstrating Resilience as Older Adults
Mental health goals and gains are within reach no matter one’s age.
Finding Balance in an Unbalanced World: Native Elders and Obesity
A disconnection from tradition and difficulty accessing Native foods play into high rates of obesity among older Indigenous peoples.
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.
Creating the Strategic Framework for a National Plan on Aging
Three philanthropic organizations and the Administration for Community Living have come together to engage the community in the development of a national plan on aging.
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.
Forty-six Years of Memories
Legacy Corps member counts the career-long merits of ASA.