by Diverse Elders | May 20, 2018
by Jeneé Darden for KQED’s California Report. You can read the original story here or listen to the original broadcast here. Choosing the right mental health therapist means finding connection and trust. For some African American seniors living in the San...
by Diverse Elders | Mar 21, 2018
by John-Manuel Andriote. This post originally appeared on the SAGEMatters blog. A first-ever survey in 2013 of LGBT San Francisco residents aged 60 to 92 found something startling: 15 percent of the 612 respondents had “seriously considered” committing suicide within...
by Meera Venugopal | Mar 19, 2018
Salma Abdul* was born and grew up in Bangladesh. Her children left for the US to study, then settled in the country as permanent residents. When her husband died, she found herself alone. Her children, unable to leave their lives in the US, but worried about her aging...
by Mari Quenemoen | Mar 14, 2018
For many Southeast Asian Americans, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) repeal fight last year felt personal. When the ACA was first passed, uninsured rates in Cambodian, Hmong, Lao, and Vietnamese American communities were high. Compared to the 15% of Americans overall who...
by Vega Subramaniam | Feb 27, 2018
It’s almost the end February. Would you look at that. The end of February, and already I’m not exercising every week (or ever). I haven’t finished my crochet project. To be sure, I did register for the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament...
