What It Will Take for the U.S. to Profit From the Longevity Dividend
(This article is the fourth in a weekly Next Avenue series, The Future of Aging: Realizing the Potential of Longevity published by the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging. It was originally...
View ArticleArtist Gives Downtrodden Neighborhoods New Life
Theaster Gates is a successful artist on the international gallery scene. He’s also become a renowned urban developer on the South Side of Chicago. The connection between creating ceramics and creating...
View ArticleAffordable LGBT-Friendly Elder Housing Answers Growing Need
In 2013, Lamar Jackson, who is gay, was living in a senior apartment building in Chicago when he began hearing hostile remarks from other tenants about gay marriage. “There was a lot of homophobia,” he...
View ArticleShould You Adopt an 80-Year-Old?
Everyone of a certain age remembers Sally Struthers’ Save the Children TV commercials, encouraging viewers to improve the life of an impoverished child in a developing nation by sponsoring him or her...
View ArticleThe Nation’s Largest LGBTQ-Inclusive Affordable Housing for Older Adults
When applications opened for New York City’s first affordable housing property for LGBTQ older adults recently, 1,000 people eagerly sent theirs in on that first day. This underscores a genuine need....
View ArticleThe Distressing Growth of Wealth Inequality of Boomers
In her piercing new book Unbound: How Inequality Constricts Our Economy and What We Can Do About It, economist Heather Boushey writes: “The trend toward greater economic inequality continues its...
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