Local community relationships have proven to be a powerful protector during the pandemic and when disasters strike.
Lessons from COVID-19: Improving Social Health to Build Community Resilience
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Climate Change Hazards + Social Vulnerability = A Recipe for Disaster
Climate justice must involve transgenerational, equitable action.
Promoting Climate Change Activism Among Older People
The barriers and opportunities facing older people who could be involved in climate change activism.
San Francisco’s Answer to Housing Unhoused Elders
Collaboration between the health, aging, human services and homelessness sectors is fostering productive ideas in the city.
New Research Supports the Importance of Nutrition in Wound Healing
Certain specialized nutrition products have been shown to speed the wound-healing process.
Preventing Gun Violence at Home
Smart resources for older adults who own guns and those who work with them.
Science into Practice: Effective Solutions for Social Isolation and Loneliness
Being socially connected provides safety and security, buffers stress responses, aids emotion regulation, improves health behaviors, and improves access to resources.
USAging’s Managed Care Summit: Innovations, Workforce and Behavioral Health
Three-hours of panels were rich with solutions.
Building Resilience and Fostering Adaptation to Climate Change
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has embarked on multiple efforts to prepare Americans.
Reducing Food Insecurity in Hawai’i Leads to the Kūpuna Collective
A coalition of nonprofits and other organizations sprang into action to help elders in Hawai’i.
Perspectives on Food Security in Older Adults in the COVID-19 Era: What We Know, Where We Go
We need to learn from the past, expand connections to community providers, and prioritize nutrition security.
It’s Not OK with My Soul
A skid row doctor on why homeless people with psychiatric illnesses and/or dementia need our help and empathy.
A Shortage of Affordable Homes Is Driving the Surge in Older Adult Homelessness
‘Today, more than 3 million older adults live in households that are severely rental cost burdened.’
Round and Round We Go: Or the Way Services Work for People Who Are Homeless
Mental illness, drug use, abuse and dementia can all make help hard to secure.
Causes of Homelessness Among Elders and How We Might Eliminate ‘Homeism’
Reasons for becoming homeless are many, but discrimination and stigmatization happen to all.
Stepping Out of Our Lane
Current events sometimes call for more direct action.
Over the Edge: Older Adult Homelessness in Contemporary America
‘Researchers project continued and significant growth in older adult homelessness across the next decade.’
5 Easy Ways to Support People with Hearing Loss
Learn to help older adults use hearing aids more effectively and how to change one’s own habits when connecting with elders.
Learning from COVID. Or Not.
Detailing ways to ensure nurse aides hired during the pandemic are sufficiently trained.
ASA RISE: Connecting the Dots Between Caregiving, DEI Work and Aging
I have a deeper appreciation of how many of our healthcare systems are riddled with systematic racism.