by Diverse Elders | Jan 4, 2018
By Sandy Markwood, CEO of the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging. This post originally appeared on Next Avenue. Our country has reached a critical moment. The aging of the baby boom generation and the fact that people are living longer is driving...
by Diverse Elders | Nov 8, 2017
by Richard Eisenberg. This post originally appeared on Next Avenue. As Next Avenue has noted, there are huge wealth and income disparities between blacks and whites in America (average wealth of white families was more than $500,000 higher than African Americans in...
by Diverse Elders | Oct 16, 2017
by Kevyn Burger. This article originally appeared on Next Avenue. Born on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, Kathy Janis was taught to revere the elders in her Oglala Sioux Tribe. “I was raised to consider every one of them to be a relative. Respect is...
by Diverse Elders | Mar 14, 2017
by Bryce Kirchoff, Director of Audience Development for Next Avenue. Next Avenue is public media’s first and only national journalism service for America’s booming older population. Bryce will be presenting on a panel alongside Jenna McDavid of the Diverse Elders...
by Diverse Elders | Dec 28, 2016
by Chris Farrell. This article originally appeared on Next Avenue. America’s immigrant community is aging along with the rest of the population, and in many cases, with great financial difficulty. Some 15 percent of adults 60 and over were foreign-born in 2015,...
