Housing alone is not enough to address geriatric conditions in homeless older adults and improve their ability to age in place.
Mitigating Homelessness Among Older Adults: Adapting the Permanent Supportive Housing Model
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An Opportune Moment for Socially Just Economic Strategies to Prevent Precarity
‘It is poverty, disadvantage, and inequality that reveal how unequal aging is structured and experienced.’
On ASA Rise and Leadership Lessons Learned from the Program that Preceded It
The key message, which I carry with me to this day, is that at times I must leave my comfort zone to be an effective leader.
Partnering with Community Organizations to Address Older Adult Loneliness
Introducing an effective, scalable, and sustainable approach to ameliorating loneliness
Care Management in Residential Settings: Added Benefit or Unnecessary Duplication?
Does it make sense to require independent care management for individuals who live in residential settings such as assisted living and nursing facilities?
Help for Primary Care Practitioners in Addressing Older Adult Alcohol and Opioid Use
‘From 2015 to 2016, 19 percent of older adults filled at least one opioid prescription.’
Battling Loneliness: The American Geriatrics Society’s CoCare: Hospital Elder Life Program
Volunteers are a key component to the program, and it demonstrates a 95 percent satisfaction rate.
A Solutions-Oriented Partnership Helps Metro Detroit Elders Stay Safe at Home
Metro In-Home Solutions, a collaborative of four charitable organizations, accelerates home modifications for Detroit’s older adults.
‘Magic Table’ Can Create Joy, Overcome Apathy in People With Dementia
The Tovertafel shows benefits for elders with dementia and their caregivers.
Climate, Disasters, and Extreme Weather Events: Vulnerability, Resources, and Interventions for Lower-Income Older Adults
Catastrophic disasters can be extremely disruptive and take months—if not years—to recover from.
Affordable Senior Housing Maintenance and Renovations, COVID-19, and the Precarity of Residents’ Health Safety
Three case studies of protecting residents from COVID-19 during low-income senior building renovations.
Plugging Transportation Gaps: Microtransit Can Fill in Where Public Transit and Ride-Hailing Fail
On-demand public transit allows travelers to request a shared shuttle that picks them up in a few minutes.
What Can Be Done to Fix Direct Care Jobs? Here are 47 Ideas
Two priorities are to reform long-term care financing and increase compensation for direct care workers.
Can Technology Solve Mobility and Transportation Challenges for Older Adults?
Mobility challenges are common for older adults and with public transport that is inaccessible or non-existent, mobility and transportation are closely intertwined.
Will Congress Finally Transform the Direct Care Job?
As job satisfaction and care quality improve, consumers spend more, public assistance rates drop and costly health outcomes go down.
The WISH Act: A Proposal for Federal LTSS Insurance for Catastrophic Costs
‘It’s time to stop pretending that we mostly won’t live into old age, or that most of us won’t need LTSS.’
Mobility is Key for Older Adults, But How to Pay for It?
‘There is a significant and disruptive transformation in transportation technology happening right now.’
Network Collaboratives Give Aging Services Providers a Hand Up
‘Everyone has a common goal of building up their networks, but how they go about achieving it differs.’
How Self-Driving Cars Can Empower a Growing Population of Older Adults
A self-driving service can promote wellness, offering access to healthcare or local businesses and connection to family.
Toward a National Strategy to Strengthen Family Caregiver Supports
‘The input of family caregivers will be a key component of Strategy development.’