by Robert Espinoza | Feb 20, 2018
As a long-term care advocate, the most common question I get from friends is about access. A friend needs home care for his father with dementia, but he doesn’t know where to start or whether he can afford it. Another friend who has begun applying for Medicaid for her...
by Diverse Elders | Dec 20, 2017
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 Diverse Elders | Dec 14, 2017
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...
by Diverse Elders | Dec 12, 2017
By Julia Kassem, Detroit Journalism Cooperative Conversations around Detroit-area public transit in recent months have focused on new routes on Woodward, Gratiot and Michigan Avenue – as well as the Detroit Connector, a new service operating from Ann Arbor to Detroit...
by Mari Quenemoen | Aug 10, 2017
Aggressive deportation policies, like those that have been enacted since Trump’s inauguration, tear families apart — including elders and the family caregivers they depend upon. Since 1980, the share of households headed by an immigrant has doubled (from...