The National Asian Pacific Center on Aging (NAPCA) was founded 40 years ago on November 1, 1979 to address the divide between AAPI elderly and the services they were entitled to. In 40 years, NAPCA has directly served tens of thousands of AAPI elders and indirectly...
by Dr. Marcy Adelman. This article originally appeared in the San Francisco Bay Times. In November of 2018, the San Francisco Department of Aging and Adult Services (DAAS) released its study, LGBTQ Participation Equity Analysis, which reported what can only be...
by Jaya Padmanabhan. This article originally appeared in India Currents. “What did you eat today?” my mother, Sarada, begins her phone conversation with my twenty-three-year-old daughter in New York. When my daughter explains that she made rasam and sautéed...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 23, 2019 Contact: Jenna McDavid, National Director 646-653-5015 / jmcdavid@diverseelders.org New York, NY – The Diverse Elders Coalition (DEC) has been approved for a two-year, $1,199,763 grant from The John A. Hartford Foundation to...
by Lois A. Bowers. This article originally appeared on McKnight's Senior Living. It was mid-April when I first told you about the launch of a new nationwide tool by elder advocacy group SAGE and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation to assess how well independent...
As I approach the end of my first full year working with the Diverse Elders Coalition, I am extremely grateful for the opportunities that I’ve had on both a personal and professional level. Working on the coalition's caregiving initiative, "Addressing Unmet Family...
