As experience experts, older residents identify opportunities and challenges to aging in place and develop solutions for change.
What it Takes to Be and Remain an Age-Friendly World
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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.
Building a Stronger, Bolder, Long-Term Care System with Equity at its Center
‘Angie believes she can live safely at home if only she could receive some help.’
Equity in Aging for LGBT Older Adults: A Review of the Past Ten Years and Progress for the Future
‘The effects of discrimination and poverty among LGBT individuals compound over the lifetime.’
In Memory: ASA Member and LAIN Leader Tom Callahan
Tom had the uncanny ability to put everyone at ease and to make spaces for those who may otherwise have felt marginalized.
We Must Support LGBT Caregivers Now More Than Ever
‘LGBT caregivers may not be formally recognized as caregivers by healthcare providers.’
Equity in Entrepreneurship Among Older Adults
‘When entrepreneurs are successful, businesses become a source of family wealth that can transfer to future generations.’
A New Advancing Equity Initiative from Justice in Aging
‘The impact of racism only intensifies as people of color age and also confront ageism.’
Pandemic Learning: Paving the Way for a New Lifelong Learning Direction
How do older adult learners like and experience new types of course delivery such as online or via phone?
Know Oneself, Name Oneself … Or Something Else
‘At age 44, should I have already properly named and mastered myself?’
Trump Set LGBT Rights Backward for Older Adults—but Biden Can Undo That
Biden’s administration and a pro-equality majority in Congress can advance a range of policies supporting LGBT older adults.
A Two-Eyed Seeing Approach to Addressing Dementia Inequities in Indigenous Populations
Dementia incidence in the American Indian/Alaska Native population is 14.6 percent higher than in the white population.
Digital Equity: A Human Right Whose Time Has Come
The pandemic has made clear that we can no longer ignore the digital divide.
Elder Justice Elusive, But Advocates Are Hard at Work Securing It
‘Access to justice for older adults is under threat.’
LGBT Elders’ Health Affected by Interpersonal, Institutional and Cultural Violence
The lack of data is the data—it exacerbates invisibility.
Resilience Learned After 55 Years of Struggle: A Lesbian Elder Remembers
‘Now one of my primary political concerns is the particular needs of LGBTQ elders.’
Whether Coming Out or In
‘The journey to one’s authentic self and sharing that self with others is a personal decision.’
Care Management in a World of Many Cultures
‘Eye contact, spatial distance, touch, and non-touch are all important considerations when working across cultural and racial groups.’
How Does Care Management Interface with Behavioral Health?
Substance misuse and use treatment admissions among older adults have steadily increased over the past decade.
Why Our Healthcare System Is Failing Older Adults
On witnessing the silent yet blatant discrimination before us.