by Diverse Elders | Feb 8, 2018
This article originally appeared on the NHCOA blog. Para leer este artículo en español, clic aquí. Agueda González is Dominican, and though she is 83 years old, she says she feels 60 (and that’s how she looks). A single mother, with a suitcase full of hope, she...
by Diverse Elders | Jan 29, 2018
by Jeneé Darden. This article was originally published by KQED Public Radio. My family packed into the black stretch limousine leaving Cal State University in the East Bay. We were heading to a restaurant after attending my mother’s college graduation. We turned on...
by Diverse Elders | Jan 24, 2018
By Courtney Perkes. This article originally appeared on Kaiser Health News. Rebeca Gonzalez grew up eating artichokes from her grandmother’s farm in the central Mexican state of Tlaxcala. But for years after emigrating to the U.S., she did not feed them to her own...
by Diverse Elders | Jan 21, 2018
This year’s Creating Change conference will be held from January 24th through 28th in Washington, D.C. and Diverse Elders Coalition member SAGE will be there to ensure that the stories of LGBT elders are represented and honored. As in previous years, SAGE will...
by Diverse Elders | Jan 17, 2018
by Beth Baker. This post originally appeared on Next Avenue. Rick Ramey, 82, has always loved monarch butterflies. So when his community of Moose Lake, Minn., built a new public pavilion, he floated the idea of establishing butterfly gardens there. “I thought this was...
