by Dr. Wes Lum | Sep 26, 2017
The City of Seattle Human Services Department awarded $20,000 to the National Asian Pacific Center on Aging (NAPCA) to evaluate the readiness of Seattle’s Korean and Vietnamese caregivers for Tailored Caregiver Assessment and Referral (TCARE®), an evidence-based care...
by Diverse Elders | Jan 11, 2017
by Sally Abrahms for AARP Livable Communities. This post originally appeared on the AARP website. Many organizations and service providers that work with older adults don’t have much experience with older people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. As...
by Dr. Maria Glover Wallace | May 19, 2016
On the Table is an annual forum designed to increase conversations around civic engagement among residents and organizations. This gathering fosters new relationships and creates a unified experience across the city and region. As thousands gathered in Chicago, I...
by Dr. Yanira Cruz | Jan 10, 2016
Older adults in the U.S. face many challenges to healthy aging, including getting adequate nutrition and exercise. Today, over 13% of the total population in the United States is 65 years and older. Older adults in the U.S. have the greatest limitations of any group...
by Ben de Guzman | Sep 2, 2015
“If you were from, where I’m from, then you would know.”- Montell Jordan Immigrant culture in the United States, by virtue of taking one’s homeland culture to a new location in the context of a new culture, entails some degree of cultural sharing. For Filipinos in the...
