Many older adults have jobs that meet the classic definition of a bad job.
Working Longer Not a Panacea Considering the Number of Low-wage Work Options
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If You Care about Healthy Longevity, You Should Care about Rising Wealth Inequality
Likely it’s the opportunities that wealth affords—healthcare access and reduced stress—that lead to better health, not the wealth itself.
Are We Headed Toward a More Comprehensive Hearing Care System?
Over-the-counter hearing aids and Medicare expansion of hearing care may move the U.S. in this direction.
ASA Supports Build Back Better Act
Congress must pass this Act to support older adults.
The Older American Indian: Yesterday and Today
As indigenous populations move to urban centers, Native cultures are threatened.
Aging in Indigenous Communities: An Overview
‘It is critical to appreciate the diversity across and within these communities.’
Nursing Home Antipsychotic Drug Use to Control Behavior, Help Staff Spiked in Pandemic and for Black Elders
‘At what point will we stop accepting the poor to mediocre care that is the reality in too many nursing homes?’
Altering the Narratives We Are Told to Benefit Caregivers and the Work They Perform
Using story to divest ourselves from the American ideal of rugged individualism.
Making it Work: Care, Blackness, and Generational Values
For the second time in their generation, my aunts helped weave together a care plan that would become my inherited responsibility.
Pursuing Justice and Equity by Transforming How We Care
‘Transforming care and caregiving will lead to a more just world, where everyone can age and thrive.’
Youth Caregivers: Before, During, and After the Pandemic
The call to support care infrastructure as policy and practice presents a historic watershed moment for youth caregivers.
Care in the United States: Our Moment of Crisis
One immigrant family’s story lays out the situation for many.
The Care Infrastructure: Building Across Movements
Sustained advocacy could combat America’s short memory.
Centering BIPOC Voices Is the Only Way to Overhaul Our Care Infrastructure
‘Paid family and medical leave could address many of the cultural and economic realities of today’s families.’
The Foundation of Care: Wages, Rights, Access, Equity, Housing and Safety
As economic hurt hit the middle class, suddenly a new breed of activists were interested in issues that have always affected BIPOC women.
What’s Love Got to Do With It? An Argument Against Institutionalizing People with Severe Physical Disabilities
Why does the bias remain toward placing severely disabled people in nursing homes, when community-based care is preferred, less expensive, and of better quality?
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Memphis Helps Older Homeowners Age in Place
‘All of the issues in the home were making my granddaughter sick.’
Closing the Technology Gap on the UN International Day of Older Persons
‘Almost half of the world’s population is still offline.’
Future Proof: Is Poverty Solvable?
Building Opportunity and Fighting Poverty, Presented by AARP Foundation
Why Older American Indian and Alaska Native Disparities Persist and Possible Paths Out
Health statistics and advice for practitioners with AIAN clients.