by Christina N. Harrington. This article originally appeared on Next Avenue. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick recently said that he and other older Americans would be willing to risk death due to the coronavirus in order to protect the U.S. economy. What followed was a...
SAGE, the world’s largest and oldest organization dedicated to improving the lives of LGBT elders, has recently launched SAGEConnect, a program that matches LGBT elders with volunteer community members and allies in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. For many of our...
by Dr. Marcy Adelman. This article originally appeared in the San Francisco Bay Times. These are extraordinary times. It has only been since March 17 that Mayor Breed ordered San Francisco residents to shelter in place, to stay indoors, to slow the spread of infection...
This article originally appeared on the PHI blog. Illustration by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay A remarkable though unsettling new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has drawn attention to the extensive harm that social isolation and...
by Vivian Nava-Schellinger and Jenna McDavid. This article originally appeared on the National Council on Aging (NCOA) blog. We want to hear how COVID-19 is impacting your community. Please take a moment to answer this short anonymous survey. Last week, more than...
*NOTE FOR ETHNIC MEDIA* The below press release is available translated in Khmer and Vietnamese This month marks the 45th anniversary of the Southeast Asian American community's refugee experience, when the first wave of SEAAs were resettled in the United States...
