by Diverse Elders | Dec 28, 2016
by Chris Farrell. This article originally appeared on Next Avenue. America’s immigrant community is aging along with the rest of the population, and in many cases, with great financial difficulty. Some 15 percent of adults 60 and over were foreign-born in 2015,...
by Diverse Elders | Dec 22, 2016
by Paul Nyhan. This article originally appeared on Equal Voice News. FRESNO, Calif. — They came to America in the 1970s and 1980s as child refugees, members of the Hmong minority in Laos fleeing that country’s new communist government and persecution for helping the...
by Diverse Elders | Dec 7, 2016
by Pat Lin. This post originally appeared on the SAGE blog. On World AIDS Day, it’s important to commemorate how far we’ve come since the HIV/AIDS pandemic started. HIV isn’t the death sentence it used to be, but many long-term survivors of HIV continue to pay an...
by Diverse Elders | Nov 29, 2016
by Hitomi Yoshida, with with support from Naw Doh, Shira Walinksy and Melissa Fogg, members of the Southeast by Southeast Community Center in Philadelphia. Hitomi is a long-time friend of the Diverse Elders Coalition, and you can read her stories of intergenerational...
by Diverse Elders | Nov 2, 2016
Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE) has published a new infographic outlining its involvement in the #TellACL comment period. In 2016, SAGE delivered more than 2,800 comments to the Federal Administration for Community Living (ACL) regarding a plan that would...
