aging

To support older adults to safely age in community, we need to consider what they need out of banking—and what they need to be protected from.

Our aging population is more economically and ethnically diverse than any before, and will require a greater and more varied inventory of housing stock.

The demise of the federal program that funded senior housing construction bodes ill for the increasing numbers of low-income seniors who struggle to afford a decent place to live.

For high needs seniors with chronic illnesses, health is not merely—or even mostly—a matter for medical professionals.

As multigenerational households increase, some community groups are rethinking how to design homes and developments to bring generations together.

Ai-Jen Poo has been organizing with domestic workers for over 15 years, helping in New York to win some of the first statewide labor protections for occupations often exempt from labor laws, and expanding this campaign to a nationwide vision for a strong caregiving workforce and infrastructure for elder care. In 2014 she became a MacArthur Fellow, but this was hardly her first award.

A bill that would establish a program to ensure support services for neighborhoods with high concentrations of seniors cleared a key hurdle in the New Jersey Legislature this week, in […]

A major challenge that has come with sprawl over the last half-century has been that growing up, maturing, and growing older has required, more often than not, moving to a […]