by Diverse Elders | Sep 8, 2019
By Dr. Marcy Adelman. This article originally appeared in the San Francisco Bay Times. I am proud and honored to announce that I have been invited by Governor Newsom and former California First Lady Maria Shriver to join the Governor’s Alzheimer’s Prevention and...
by Diverse Elders | Sep 3, 2019
Older adults suffering from social isolation and loneliness are at a higher risk of developing physical and mental health conditions, including high blood pressure, heart disease, and Alzheimer’s disease. According to a 2016 study published in Gerontology, up to 29...
by Diverse Elders | Aug 30, 2019
This article was written for the Diverse Elders Coalition by Resources for Integrated Care. Nearly one in four older adults dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid has Alzheimer’s disease or related dementia, and dually eligible older adults have higher rates of...
by Diverse Elders | Aug 28, 2019
This article is part of a series of profiles of the inspiring SAGE constituents who were part of the Stonewall uprising in 1969, an event that inspired the modern LGBT-rights movement. It was originally published on the SAGE blog. Charles “Valentino” Harris, known to...
by Diverse Elders | Aug 23, 2019
The National Asian Pacific Center on Aging (NAPCA) was founded 40 years ago on November 1, 1979 to address the divide between AAPI elderly and the services they were entitled to. In 40 years, NAPCA has directly served tens of thousands of AAPI elders and indirectly...
