Older adults are most at risk of Long COVID and have a role to play in driving research forward on this complex condition.
Long COVID: A Brief Overview
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Remembering the Impact of Malnutrition and Food Insecurity on Healthy Aging
Malnutrition Awareness Week is a good time to think about the fact that 50% of older adults are at risk of becoming or already malnourished.
Low Quality Jobs Equal Low Quality Care in Nursing Homes
An essentially temporary workforce can’t care for elders as they should.
Connecting Older Adults in Illinois During the Pandemic
Data from the Care Connections Program shows benefits for training elders to use devices for socializing and healthcare.
The Cycle of Care: How Generational Caregiving Disproportionately Impacts Black Women
One caregiver’s tale illustrates a national crisis.
Cultural Humility Call to Action
We’re preaching—now it’s time for the choir to sing!
How Shifting a Lens Can Clarify the View
A caregiver’s sense of her mother’s dementia behaviors is influenced by media portrayals.
Grandmothers for Reproductive Rights in 44 States, and Growing
The work of GRR! Is debunking anti-abortion centers, telling abortion stories and activating.
Connecting the Dots for Quality Malnutrition Care
Adding the Global Malnutrition Composite Score to inpatient hospital quality reporting will benefit health equity and outcomes, older adults and community nutrition programs.
How Well Did States Support Direct Care Workers During the Pandemic? It Depends
New report shows varied but disappointing response by states in compensating workers who had been deemed ‘essential.’
Factoring the Costs of Climate Change Resilience Into Retirement Planning
It may be wise to consider retiring outside the climate cone of uncertainty.
Timely, Critical Climate Resource from the HHS
For the next three months, ‘many regions may expect a warmer 90-day average temperature.’
The Heat Is Killing Us
We are all the frog in the parable.
Equity in Healthy Aging: A Data-Driven Movement Led by Trusted Ambassadors
‘Communities RISE builds on the civic muscle of more than 2,400 community-based organizations.’
Summer Call for Proposals for On Aging 2023 Active Right Now
Take a break from vacation and get that On Aging proposal polished!
White House Nutrition Conference Provides Opportunity to Support Healthy Aging
Weigh in now with ideas on how nutrition can support healthy aging, directly to the White House by July 15.
Climate and Cultural Vulnerabilities of Indigenous Elders
Nourishing futures of the golden age.
Living Faithfully on the Hinge of History
Congregations can become a refuge for people processing grief over climate change and spur advocacy and action to halt it.
The Give and Get of Climate Change Work
How can older adults benefit from being involved and effecting real change?
The Role of Elders in Saving Planet Earth
Perspectives from a life-plan community.