One way to bolster any future public health response is coordination and collaboration between public health and age-friendly movements.
Government response has been insufficient to mitigate the impact of a public health crisis that is compounding decades of exclusion and discrimination.
The crucial link between equitable solutions and better outcomes for older adults and their families.
Although deemed essential, the quality of direct care jobs falls short of their worth.
‘Federal and many state public health responses to COVID-19 did not prioritize HCBS.’
Lessons learned from this public health crisis must bring about massive change in aging services.
Exploring COVID-19 impacts via equity, diversity, and inclusivity lenses and proposing systemic solutions.
These guest editors have the future firmly in mind and can envision a better one.
COVID-19 and the Acute Care of Older Adults
Six lessons learned from 12 countries’ vaccine distribution to elder care staff and residents.
‘Physicians may recommend ONS products for individuals with a number of chronic diseases.’
We must do better for our older loved ones, and for ourselves.
Lessons learned from COVID-19.
How such practices can affirm older adults’ experiences and validate their worldviews.
What causes poor sleep, including cognitive impairment, and how should older adults go about fixing it?
Such a pathway would allow home care workers to move into the formal home care market, live with greater dignity, and enforce their rights.
Anti-Asian violence, which has continued despite the pandemic slowing, impacts older immigrants’ psychological well-being as well as family dynamics and well-being.
Expanding Medicare coverage for all elders, combined with immigration reforms are needed to ensure this population can access healthcare.
To improve older immigrants’ health and well-being it’s critical to work with community organizations.
A caregiver with health issues faces impossible caregiving choices and works toward a brighter future for others.
