by Jenna McDavid | Jan 13, 2017
I had the honor of attending a White House Initiative on Asian and Pacific Islander Americans listening session earlier this week, hosted by India Home’s Desi Senior Center in Queens, NY. New York City is home to the largest Bangladeshi population in the United...
by Jenna McDavid | Dec 29, 2016
In case you missed the December edition of our Common Threads newsletter, here are some highlights from the Diverse Elders Coalition in 2016! Subscribe to our newsletter here, and read on to learn more about what we achieved for diverse older adults this year: It has...
by Diverse Elders | Dec 28, 2016
by Chris Farrell. This article originally appeared on Next Avenue. America’s immigrant community is aging along with the rest of the population, and in many cases, with great financial difficulty. Some 15 percent of adults 60 and over were foreign-born in 2015,...
by Diverse Elders | Dec 22, 2016
by Paul Nyhan. This article originally appeared on Equal Voice News. FRESNO, Calif. — They came to America in the 1970s and 1980s as child refugees, members of the Hmong minority in Laos fleeing that country’s new communist government and persecution for helping the...
by Marsha Aizumi | Dec 4, 2016
This post originally appeared in the Pacific Citizen. I recently received a very kind note from a man named Herb. In his note, he talked about reading one of my articles and expressed his amazement at my bravery. He also said, “This may be easy for me to tell you, but...