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Leadership in Aging

Monthly Archive (Leadership in Aging)

Community-Based Prototypes Play an Integral Role in Effecting Lasting Healthcare Change

posted 08.23.2016

Our current healthcare system for older adults and individuals with disabilities was built to provide acute medical care, but does not routinely include wellness approaches to prevent or manage chronic disease. Read More

Social and Health Disparities in Aging: Gender Inequities in Long-Term Care

posted 08.08.2016

Our society must learn to value caregiving—or existing health and financial inequities among paid and unpaid caregivers will remain. Read More

A Search for Answers to Continuing Health and Mortality Disparities in the United States

posted 08.08.2016

Why did the United States suffer a reversal in gains in life expectancy and why do we linger at the bottom for high-income countries? Read More

Population Health and Older Adults: A Public Health Issue that is Coming of Age

posted 07.07.2016

Aging cuts across all 21st century public health concerns including bioterrorism, natural disasters, climate change and infectious diseases—but has the public health field come of age? Read More

The Social Security Program You Don’t Know

posted 07.06.2016

Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is an important source of income for millions of people, yet it is not widely known about or understood. Read More

A Matter of Mindset: CBOs Must Master “Outside-In” Thinking to Partner Up and Deliver Quality, Cost-Efficient Care

posted 07.06.2016

Home- and community-based service providers (CBO) are well-positioned to partner with the medical care sector. Success in forming and implementing these partnerships requires CBOs to adopt an outside-in business mindset. Read More

Protecting and Ensuring the Well-Being of LGBT Older Adults: A Policy Roadmap

posted 06.29.2016

Concrete suggestions for remedying government and research oversight of LGBT elders. Read More

An Intersectional Approach to Services and Care for LGBT Elders

posted 06.29.2016

Addressing the invisibility of LGBT aging concerns requires a multi-faceted approach that takes into account the heterogeneity of LGBT elders’ experience. Read More

In Pursuit of a Useful Framework to Champion Elder Justice

posted 06.15.2016

Lessons in coordination, collaboration, and advocacy from California’s Elder Justice Coalition. Read More

The Direct Care Workforce—Raising the Floor of Job Quality

posted 06.08.2016

Our new labor market requires stakeholders begin to compete for direct care workers through higher pay, benefits, predictable hours, training, and support. Read More