Mark Goldhawk has been giving back to various organizations his whole life. Last year, he started donating his time to the Alzheimer’s Association®. Mark, whose father is currently living with [...]
To the Editor: Re “Who Will Care for the Kinless Seniors?,” by Paula Span (The New Old Age, Dec. 6): Aging “kinless” may be new to older Americans who are straight. But there’s nothing novel [...]
A generation that grew up in an earlier era worries about discrimination amid a search for senior housing Joseph Rieckhoff relished the palm trees and mountain views from his ranch-style home in [...]
Who would bring you chicken soup if you were sick? For most people of a certain age, that’s easy — a spouse or an adult child would step up. For many LGBTQ people, however, it’s not a simple [...]
This is National Suicide Prevention Week, which technically means that during this week we are to raise awareness for suicide prevention. Next week is, among other things, National Child [...]
About 75% of LGBTQ+ adults 45 and older are concerned about having enough support from family and friends. Severe illness and aging can worsen the sense of isolation A gold band decorates Hermina [...]
Daniel Diaz lives alone now, by himself in his Signal Hill apartment, a space steeped in memories. He and his husband, Robert Morris, had been providing care for Diaz’s mother, Gloria, since [...]
Loneliness takes toll on seniors “The pandemic has induced stress in all of us, and sadly, substances are something people have turned to.” Kathleen Cameron Center for Healthy Aging When she [...]
More than 3 million LGBTQ adults over age 50 live in the U.S. – and more than half of them feel lonely. LGBTQ older adults are three or four times less likely than older Americans in general to [...]
Marsha Wetzel, an out lesbian, shared her life with her partner of 30 years, Judith Kahn, at the couple’s home in Illinois until Kahn died in 2013 of colon cancer. As is the case with some [...]
When Don Bell, a 71-year-old gay man, was searching for a senior living facility, he knew one thing for sure: He didn’t want to go “back into the closet” to find a safe place to [...]
Hope Ryan knew she couldn’t cheat death. But at 14, she was pretty sure she’d found a way to evade puberty. “The whole thing, socializing with girls, being a dude or not a dude, made me very [...]
Many elder LGBTQ+ Americans, already disproportionately isolated before the pandemic, faced greater loneliness in quarantine as they lost access to resources and community, two older LGBTQ+ [...]
Four ways technology can help organizations working to fight loneliness, while transforming eldercare and the lives of older and younger adults. Early in 2020, the first shelter-in-place measures [...]
LGBTQ+ people face myriad health disparities that put them at higher risk for complications from the virus. So why don’t we know how COVID has affected them? Miles Griffis is invisible in the [...]
Social isolation is nothing new for older members of the LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) community, but COVID has made it all the more acute. It has also triggered painful memories [...]
Emily Harriman of Belfast is a social work student at the University of Maine. Social distancing has proven vital in slowing the spread of COVID-19. Social isolation has been dubbed the “second [...]
For the 12 years she was in the Navy, La Wanda Mobley said she was pretty much the ideal service member. “I had a stellar career, I had medals, my performance evaluations were always the highest [...]
Bill Meehan moved into Stonewall House, an affordable, L.G.B.T.Q.-friendly senior housing development in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, early this year, when it was not exactly an ideal time to get to [...]
When her workplace shut down its operations in March due to the pandemic, Christina DaCosta knew she had to do something to help the many LGBTQ+ older people who would be exceedingly isolated as [...]
