by Diverse Elders | May 15, 2018
By Grace Birnstengel. This article originally appeared on Next Avenue. Very little history, imagery or understanding of transgender older adults exists in the public sphere. The stories that circulate are often sensationalized, come from a lens of voyeurism or focus...
by Diverse Elders | May 8, 2018
by Kevyn Burger. This article originally appeared on Next Avenue. Mary Owl still remembers her first cigarette, puffed when she was 13 years old. “I was never so high in my life,” recalled Owl, now 58. “I inhaled, got dizzy and then sick to my stomach.” A tribal...
by Diverse Elders | May 3, 2018
by Beth Baker. This article originally appeared on Next Avenue. Micaela Rios, 64, who immigrated to rural western Kansas from Mexico 20 years ago, has a difficult job in a meatpacking plant. After years of packing beef in cold, wet conditions, she developed arthritis...
by Diverse Elders | Jan 17, 2018
by Beth Baker. This post originally appeared on Next Avenue. Rick Ramey, 82, has always loved monarch butterflies. So when his community of Moose Lake, Minn., built a new public pavilion, he floated the idea of establishing butterfly gardens there. “I thought this was...
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...
