by Jenna McDavid | May 28, 2019
This article originally appeared in Aging Today, the bimonthly newspaper of the American Society on Aging. When asked by staff of the Diverse Elders Coalition about the aging services available in her area, Elva, an American Indian elder from New Mexico, relayed how...
by Diverse Elders | Apr 29, 2019
by D. Kevin McNeir. This article originally appeared in the Washington Informer. Much has been reported about a paradigm shift within American society which looms on the horizon and cannot be ignored: In less than 20 years, according to U.S. Census data, older adults...
by Meera Venugopal | Aug 20, 2018
This article originally appeared on the India Home blog. Nurul Khan and his wife Farida Begum are an older Bengali couple from Queens who lived for 30 years in damp basement apartments in Jamaica, Queens. “It was so damp I got arthritis,” Farida Begum said to visitors...
by Diverse Elders | Feb 13, 2018
By Alice Daniel. This article originally appeared on txhaub.com. When Yong Yang Xiong arrived in Fresno, California fourteen years ago at the age of 53, he really wanted to find a job. But he couldn’t speak English–and employers told him he was too old. On top...
by Diverse Elders | Jan 7, 2018
by Beth Baker. This piece originally appeared on Next Avenue. A large room fills with older adults and teenagers in the New York City headquarters of the nonprofit DOROT. They sit down on opposite sides of two long rows of tables filled with black-and-white chess...
