by Diverse Elders | May 6, 2019
by Jaya Padmanabhan. This article originally appeared on The Bold Italic. “Do you have drumsticks?” my 85-year-old mother asks the cashier at the checkout counter at Madras Groceries in Sunnyvale, California. The woman points to a pile of long, narrow, cylindrical...
by Diverse Elders | Apr 18, 2019
by Rhonda Miller. This article originally appeared on WKU Public Radio. This is part one of a three part series; you can read part one here and read part two here. Feeding Kentucky, a nonprofit with a mission to alleviate hunger across the Bluegrass State, reports...
by Diverse Elders | Apr 12, 2018
by Susan Jaffe. This article originally appeared on Kaiser Health News. Air conditioners for people with asthma, healthy groceries, rides to medical appointments and home-delivered meals may be among the new benefits offered to Medicare beneficiaries who choose...
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 Dr. Yanira Cruz | May 14, 2017
This post originally appeared on the NHCOA blog. The National Hispanic Council on Aging (NHCOA) continues its work by looking for strategies that amplify the voices of thousands of families facing Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia, so their specific needs can be...
