by Diverse Elders | May 19, 2015
by Mark Brennan-Ing, Director for Research and Evaluation at ACRIA and the ACRIA Center for HIV and Aging. The year 2015 marks a watershed moment in the HIV epidemic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that this year, fully half of those...
by Aaron Tax | May 18, 2015
This year’s theme for Older Americans Month is “Get into the Act.” Although unintended, the theme made me think of how often LGBT older adults have had to “act” throughout their lives – whether it was living in the closet growing-up in a time and place when it was not...
by Ben de Guzman | May 15, 2015
May is recognized as Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. From modest beginnings when President Carter signed a Joint Resolution on October 5, 1978 marking the first ten days of May as “Asian-Pacific Heritage Week,” to 1992, when the entire month of May...
by Dr. Yanira Cruz | May 13, 2015
This post originally appeared on the NHCOA blog. The showing of hands was staggering. The forum moderator at our 2014 Los Angeles Open Forum asked participants how many struggled to eat three daily meals. One participant, Angélica*, matter-of-factly told us: “I have...
by Diverse Elders | May 11, 2015
Social Security is important to the financial security of our diverse elder communities. This blog post comes to us from Kirk Larson, the Public Affairs Specialist for Social Security Western Washington. We hope it will be helpful and informative to our readers!...
