By Tibisay Zea. This story originally ran in El Planeta. To read the original article in Spanish, click here. On every warm and sunny afternoon, Pedro Arellano, 68, sings Mexican boleros and rancheras accompanying himself with the guitar at an emblematic park in...
by liz thomson. For the past five years, liz has been doing eldercare with mom and has learned a lot about the healthcare industrial complex, aging experience, and how marginalized the elder communities are. For more about liz and Betty, click here. Since moving in...
By Debra Utacia Krol, High Country News Dennis and Betty Smartt live in a neatly painted white-and-blue home on the Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Reservation, on the Nevada-Oregon border. They’ve spent their entire lives here, in this small tribal community of...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 16, 2017 CONTACT: Jenna McDavid National Managing Coordinator Diverse Elders Coalition jmcdavid@diverseelders.org || 646-653-5015 Christina DaCosta Director of Communications SAGE cdacosta@sageusa.org || 917-553-3328 The Diverse Elders...
by Sarah Varney, Kaiser Health News. That bag of frozen cauliflower sitting inside your freezer likely sprang to life in a vast field north of Salinas, Calif. A crew of men and women here use a machine to drop seedlings into the black soil. Another group follows...
SAGE, the nation’s largest and oldest organization dedicated to improving the lives of LGBT elders, has officially renamed its Midtown senior center -- the first LGBT senior center in the country -- The Edie Windsor SAGE Center, in honor of its beloved hero. Friends...