by Diverse Elders | Jun 6, 2019
by Cynthia X. Pan, MD, FACP, AGSF. This article originally appeared on the GeriPal blog. My colleagues often ask me: “Why are Chinese patients so resistant to hospice and palliative care?” “Why are they so unrealistic?” “Don’t they understand that death is part of...
by Diverse Elders | Jun 4, 2019
by Dr. Terry Fulmer, President, The John A. Hartford Foundation. This article originally appeared on Next Avenue. As you get older, your medical care can ripple across every aspect of your life. It might be a prescription that makes you too tired for dinner with the...
by Diverse Elders | May 31, 2019
by Cassie M. Chew. This article originally appeared in The Crime Report. In the months since President Trump signed the First Step Act, the product of a landmark bipartisan effort that many have called one of the most important justice reforms in years, about 500...
by Diverse Elders | May 23, 2019
by Rich Eisenberg. This article originally appeared on Next Avenue. (In 2008, National Geographic writer Dan Buettner published his bestselling book, The Blue Zones: 9 Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who’ve Lived the Longest, about the five “longevity...
by Diverse Elders | May 22, 2019
by Quynh Chi Nguyen. This article originally appeared on Community Catalyst’s Health Policy Hub blog. Every year on April 30, many Vietnamese living across the globe commemorate what they term the end of the Vietnamese war (also known as the American war in...
