by Diverse Elders | Apr 19, 2018
By Kent Patterson. This article originally appeared on NMPolitics.net. Looking spry as ever, Dolores Huerta once again took to the stage Saturday at Albuquerque’s annual Cesar Chavez Day celebration, just three days short of her 88th birthday. The co-founder of the...
by Diverse Elders | Apr 10, 2018
By Jean Van Ryzin. This post originally appeared on the NCOA blog. How we talk about aging matters. It shapes both individual and public perceptions. That’s why several national organizations are working together to reframe the story of what it’s like to grow old in...
by Diverse Elders | Feb 8, 2018
This article originally appeared on the NHCOA blog. Para leer este artículo en español, clic aquí. Agueda González is Dominican, and though she is 83 years old, she says she feels 60 (and that’s how she looks). A single mother, with a suitcase full of hope, she...
by Diverse Elders | Jan 24, 2018
By Courtney Perkes. This article originally appeared on Kaiser Health News. Rebeca Gonzalez grew up eating artichokes from her grandmother’s farm in the central Mexican state of Tlaxcala. But for years after emigrating to the U.S., she did not feed them to her own...
by Diverse Elders | Jan 10, 2018
by Daniel Blue Tyx. This article originally appeared in the Texas Observer. “La calavera,” the caller intoned, as Beatriz García placed a turquoise glass bead over the skull-and-crossbones icon on one of the two brightly colored cards on the table in front of her. It...
