by Tyrell Ma'ae | Jan 27, 2016
Last year, we celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the Older Americans Act (OAA), signed into law in July 1965 by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Over the past 50 years, the OAA has provided a national network of aging services and funding that helps older adults to live...
by Dr. Yanira Cruz | Dec 7, 2015
This post originally appeared on the NHCOA blog. This past Thursday, I had the great pleasure of attending the Family Values @ Work annual convening at the Ford Foundation in New York City. It is always great to hear the voices of those who share the goal of...
by Dr. Wes Lum | Aug 27, 2015
The Senior Community Service and Employment Program (SCSEP) is a federal program that helps low-income jobseekers who are 55 and older, and assigns them to subsidized community service employment opportunities where they update their skills through on-the-job...
by Ben de Guzman | Aug 14, 2015
One of the things I’ve found as I tell people that I work on aging policy, is that even though the issues are complex and the policies are never clear-cut, people connect to them in a very personal way. There’s almost always a reflection about someone’s own aging...
by Diverse Elders | May 11, 2015
Social Security is important to the financial security of our diverse elder communities. This blog post comes to us from Kirk Larson, the Public Affairs Specialist for Social Security Western Washington. We hope it will be helpful and informative to our readers!...
