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...
by Diverse Elders | Jan 10, 2018
by Daniel Blue Tyx. This article originally appeared in the Texas Observer. “La calavera,” the caller intoned, as Beatriz García placed a turquoise glass bead over the skull-and-crossbones icon on one of the two brightly colored cards on the table in front of her. It...
by Diverse Elders | Jan 7, 2018
by Beth Baker. This piece originally appeared on Next Avenue. A large room fills with older adults and teenagers in the New York City headquarters of the nonprofit DOROT. They sit down on opposite sides of two long rows of tables filled with black-and-white chess...
by Diverse Elders | Jan 5, 2018
by Adam Polaski, Freedom for All Americans. This post originally appeared on the SAGE blog. Five years ago, Pat Baldwin walked into the office of the executive director at the Hannan Foundation, an organization dedicated to preserving the dignity of elders in the...
by Diverse Elders | Jan 4, 2018
By Sandy Markwood, CEO of the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging. This post originally appeared on Next Avenue. Our country has reached a critical moment. The aging of the baby boom generation and the fact that people are living longer is driving...
