by Dave Singleton. This article originally appeared on Caring.com. You don’t know what you don’t know. That’s what I learned touring over 30 assisted living homes and senior communities in recent years. Some visits were for an article I was working on or for...
Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) are the fastest growing minority group in America, and between 2010 and 2030, the AAPI older adult population is projected to increase by 145 percent, according to the US Census. This growth will also impact the number of...
This post originally appeared on the NCOA blog. According to a recent Gallup Poll, there are approximately 2.4 million lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people over 50 years old. We know that many LGBTQ/SGL (same-gender loving) elders never came out of...
This post originally appeared on the SAGE blog. The Trump administration is giving businesses and medical providers a license to discriminate: to deny services to LGBT individuals based on religious or moral beliefs. In response, SAGE is enlisting the power of the...
Next week, the Diverse Elders Coalition will be participating in SEARAC's annual Leadership and Advocacy Training (LAT) program in Washington, D.C. This post from SEARAC's new Director of Communications and Development, Elaine Sanchez Wilson, shares how the LAT...
June is LGBT Pride Month and although there are Two Spirit and LGBT members within Native communities, they are often apprehensive to come out. As the Indigenous Ways of Knowing Program at Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling notes, family is...