by Diverse Elders | Mar 6, 2019
by Viji Sundaram. This article originally appeared in India West. When Sanjog Kaur could no longer bear the pain around her upper molar that had been bothering her for months, she took a needle-nose pliers from her husband’s toolbox one recent day, sterilized it in...
by Diverse Elders | Feb 28, 2019
by Dr. Marcy Adelman. This article originally appeared in the San Francisco Bay Times. California Governor Gavin Newsom in his State of the State address on February 12 spoke to the issue of the aging of the state’s population. “We need to get ready.… For the...
by Diverse Elders | Feb 27, 2019
by Rodney Brooks. This article originally appeared in USA TODAY. An array of health and financial problems converge on African Americans as they age, posing a potentially devastating impact on them. Blacks are more likely than whites to suffer medical conditions that...
by Diverse Elders | Feb 25, 2019
by Alyssa Tulabut, Training Manager, Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC). Stories have been described as “the single most powerful weapon in a leader’s arsenal.” Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt wrote, “The human mind is a story processor, not a logic...
by Diverse Elders | Feb 14, 2019
by Rodney Brooks. This article originally appeared in USA TODAY. A decade ago, Rushern Baker III started seeing signs that something was wrong with his wife when she was still in her late 40s. Christa Beverly was forgetting things and losing things. Then, she was...
