Janet Y. Spears Kevin Prindiville Janet Y. Spears: Kevin, you’ve announced a major new initiative to center all of your work in [racial] equity. Can “Advancing Equity in Aging: A Conversation Between Metta Fund & Justice in Aging”
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It’s Obvious: We Need to Invest in Our Care Infrastructure
It’s obvious if you work in the aging field. It’s obvious if you work in disability field. It’s obvious if you are any age and “It’s Obvious: We Need to Invest in Our Care Infrastructure”
Why We Launched Our Advancing Equity Initiative
We ripped it up. After spending most of 2019 developing a new strategic plan, we were all set to present a final draft to our “Why We Launched Our Advancing Equity Initiative”
Equitable Vaccine Distribution for Older Adults Requires a Tailored Approach and Key Principles
As the COVID-19 vaccine rollout bumps along and vaccinations for older adults have begun on a large scale, it is clear that, although supply is “Equitable Vaccine Distribution for Older Adults Requires a Tailored Approach and Key Principles”
The Intersections of Inequity and Aging
“This blog post appeared originally on the American Society on Aging’s Generations Today online platform and is the second in a year-long collaboration between Justice in “The Intersections of Inequity and Aging”
Centering Vaccination Planning on Equity: Intersecting Considerations of Age, Race, and More
Like many older adults, Dorothy, the 72-year-old Chinese American in Seattle’s Chinatown, has had a tough year. She has been coping by mostly quarantining alone, “Centering Vaccination Planning on Equity: Intersecting Considerations of Age, Race, and More”
Californians with Low Incomes Struggle to Navigate Both Medi-Cal and Medicare
One might think dual enrollment in Medicare and Medi-Cal should provide relief from health coverage worries, but many of the 1.4 million Californians with low “Californians with Low Incomes Struggle to Navigate Both Medi-Cal and Medicare”
A Call to Action: Elder Justice and the Movement to Defund the Police
“This blog post appeared originally on the American Society on Aging’s Generations Today online platform and is the first in a year-long collaboration between Justice in Aging “A Call to Action: Elder Justice and the Movement to Defund the Police”
Health Disparities Facing Older Adults of Color amid COVID-19
Guest Blog for NheLP: Health Disparities Facing Older Adults of Color amid COVID-19 (August, 24, 2020) The COVID-19 pandemic poses challenges for nearly all communities across the “Health Disparities Facing Older Adults of Color amid COVID-19”
Life at the Intersection: Older Adults Need a Response to COVID-19 Grounded in Equity
Dorothy is in good spirits, but tired and growing increasingly impatient. In January – well before life for most Americans had been dramatically disrupted by “Life at the Intersection: Older Adults Need a Response to COVID-19 Grounded in Equity”