Over the past decade, I’ve witnessed a profound evolution in how lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) aging is understood and prioritized within our communities and systems of care.

Community health workers (CHWs), also known as promotoras, community health navigators, and lay health workers, have been utilized in the US since the 1950s; however, their emergence onto the health-care scene, especially in under-resourced...

Picture this: owning a well-appointed single-family home in a prosperous suburb. Perhaps there’s a picket fence around the yard and a couple of kids or a dog playing on the lawn. This is our image of the American Dream, frozen in time since...

Major demographic changes in the United States are leading to an increasingly multicultural and multigenerational society. By 2030, the percentages of adults aged 65 and older and children under age 18 will be roughly the same, with ethnic...

While each American has a responsibility to manage their own health, evidence-based modifications to the living environment can produce sustainable healthy habits and better outcomes, lower health-care costs, and increased economic returns...

Over the last two-plus years, the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging has explored the financial and care-delivery gaps in the long-term care market, specifically the barriers to affordable care for middle-income households and...

"New Approaches to Long-Term Care Access for Middle-Income Americans" summarizes the key findings of a Financial Innovations Lab® organized by the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging and Innovative Finance teams in Fall 2020...

The moral test of any society is how it treats its most vulnerable members, including those who are old and living in the shadows. NOT SINCE THE 1918 Spanish flu have we faced such drastic nationwide measures to prevent the spread of a...

As we write this article, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced large swaths of the globe to remain at home and practice physical distancing to limit the spread of this new and dangerous virus. For most people, this is a highly unusual and...