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Research suggests that people who continue to work are less likely to experience social isolation. “….working longer could not only help cover the cost of long-term care but also reduce the risk that you’ll need […]
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On March 10, 2021, 40+ recognized leaders who are working to advance age-friendly initiatives in public health, health systems, community, academia and employment gathered for the second of three virtual working sessions to discuss shared
Building a Coordinated Age-Friendly Ecosystem, Part 2 Read More »
For the next piece in this series, we analyzed the results of our survey on age-friendly nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and other long-term care options. Like the other pieces, all of the bullet-points are
What Makes a Nursing Home Age-Friendly? Read More »
To wrap up this series, we sum up your answers to the one question asked most widely on this site: what makes a particular town or city age-friendly? We hope this piece helps readers assess and review
What Makes a Town or City Age-Friendly? Read More »
This piece is part of a longer, crowd-sourced series about what “age-friendly” means and looks like in different contexts. This time, we asked respondents: what would make an employer age-friendly, from their perspective? Below is a synthesis of the
What Makes an Employer Age-Friendly? Read More »
Imagine the ideal university experience for students over age 50. What would it be like? When we asked you, here are some of the answers you gave. We organized them by theme, and did not
What Makes a University Age-Friendly? Read More »
We’re on a mission to answer this question—and ultimately, to use the answer to make the world an age-friendlier place. To start, we surveyed 1,719 older adults, asking the question: “In your mind, what would
New Series: What Does Age-Friendly Mean to You? Read More »
On December 16, 2020, 40 recognized leaders who are working to advance age-friendly initiatives in public health, health systems, community, academia and employment gathered in the first of three virtual working sessions sponsored by the
Building a Coordinated Age-Friendly Ecosystem, Part 1 Read More »
An Excerpt: “It also makes sense to encourage diversity in the workplace, added Driver, who is president of the Age Friendly Foundation, which took over the workplace certification. The nonprofit’s mission is to ‘support healthy,
Age-Friendly Institute Recognized in the Denver Post Read More »
By Amanda Henshon and Kathleen Burge Dr. Alexandre Kalache often uses personal stories to give texture to the themes found in his more than four-decade-long work in the field of population aging. He observes that
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