AgeSpan in Massachusetts benefits from a diverse service area and staff, which means ramping up racial equity training for service providers, funders and staff.
Applying Anti-Racist Initiatives to Promote Health Equity
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Diversity Among Grandparent Caregivers: What We Need to Learn
Defining challenges, raising questions, and providing answers to which type of research might best assist BIPOC grandparents raising grandchildren.
ASA RISE and the Matrix of Domination
The fellowship program has helped me to understand how power and the MOD clarify aging experiences.
Improving Lives and Care: the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program
How the LTCOP came about and the challenges it faces.
A Mentorship Match Proving the Essential Nature of ASA RISE
ASA RISE is a space that supports leaders of color to continue the fight for racial equity in solidarity.
ASA’s Golden Child, Generations
Prescient in the past, relevant today.
Together We RISE: A Dual Perspective on Mentorship
Firsthand testimonials on the benefits of the ASA RISE mentor/mentee relationship.
One Song, Many Voices
An ASA RISE Fellow’s journey from feeling left out to fitting right in.
What it Takes to Be a Catalyst for Change
Landing in the right cohort, with the right mentor, meant a real transformation for one RISE fellow.
I Am a BIPOC Older Adult Rising with ASA RISE
How benefits from the fellowship program trickle up to its consultant.
What Juneteenth Means to Me and to Black Elders
Using the commemorative day as an inspiration for one’s life work.
What Might Care Mean to Future Health Professionals?
First-person experience can be a powerful teacher when it comes to care and caregiving.
Navigating HIV Challenges in Aging: A Call for Inclusive Policies
Guidelines lay out how to connect elders with HIV to services and educate service providers on HIV.
Still in the Shadows: The Health Crisis of Hispanic/Latinx Communities Aging with HIV/AIDS
Amplify their voices and prioritize their needs.
Distinguished Black Men and Their Long Road of Survivorship
Exploring the journeys of distinguished Black men through the lens of their lived experiences with trauma, PTSD, loss and stigma, using visual narratives.
Empowering Diversity: A Call for Inclusive Leadership in Aging
Why representation at all levels of organizations, including the highest, is so critical to solving complex inequities.
Unmet Mental Health Care Needs: Layered Marginalities in Older Adult Populations
Addressing needs of undocumented immigrants, those with serious mental illness, and those with intellectual disabilities.
Connecting Crime and Abuse Victims to Mental Health Services
Highly effective therapy for victims of crime and elder abuse reduces depression.
The Cost of Aging in Prison
‘Older adults in California prisons, including those with chronic (but not totally disabling) illnesses are mandated to work every day.’
ASA RISE—An Invaluable Segue into My Second Chapter
‘ASA RISE has been the vitamin boost I needed to continue advocating for older adults with even more passion, power and a community of believers backing me.’