We need to learn from the past, expand connections to community providers, and prioritize nutrition security.
Perspectives on Food Security in Older Adults in the COVID-19 Era: What We Know, Where We Go
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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.
Supreme Court Issues Decision Upholding Puerto Ricans’ Exclusion from SSI
‘Mr. Vaello-Madero didn’t understand he no longer qualified for SSI benefits after a change of address.’
Older Adults Will Benefit from a New Proposed CMS Malnutrition Quality Measure
The measure is one way to help reduce drivers of inequitable access to malnutrition care and nutritious food.
A Place to Call Home
One county in the Bay Area is reducing the number of unhoused people to ‘functional zero.’
Double Jeopardy: COVID-19 and Me
One Black woman’s two-week hospital journey through COVID-19 and our healthcare system.
Older Adults Share Their Pandemic Experiences
‘I have kids living in the area, but I couldn’t see them or touch them for five or six months.’
Mental Health Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Suggestions for improving psychological care for older adults whose social isolation and loneliness skyrocketed.
The COVID-19 Pandemic in Midlife and Older Persons in Mississippi
Multiple lessons learned in the state’s pandemic response can be used going forward.
The Political Determinants of Health and Health Equity in the Aging Population
How does political action or inaction affect health outcomes and what can be done about it?
The Media’s Response to COVID-19: Personal Reflections from the Frontlines
‘Fair and balanced’ reporting can be anything but when non-experts are given platforms.
Geriatric Emergency Departments and Their Targeted Response to COVID
GEDs responded with age-appropriate care in a model that can continue and hopefully replicate.