Growing Older

This report highlights the gendered, racial, and economic inequities in care work, a field dominated by immigrant women and women of color.

A plethora of resources to help us understand, and overcome, social isolation. Includes an assessment tool and an interactive map.

An overview of the health impacts of social isolation on older adults.

Loneliness and social isolation affect a significant number of older people in the United States.

Structural racism and sexism impact access to healthcare, food, housing, education, and employment, which can result in economic insecurity.

This article offers a discussion of aging in place for 12 low-income, older homeowners with disabilities in Baltimore, Maryland.

This article discusses how housing inequities and discrimination disproportionately harm older women, disabled, poor, and BIPOC people.

This site includes a resource library for housing for LGBTQ+ older adults and access to various reports on LGBTQ+ aging.

This article outlines the steps everyone can take to improve their ability to retire with financial security.

The lifelong pay gap leaves women more vulnerable during retirement. Here are policy recommendations from the AAUW that may help.

Fact sheet from the National Partnership for Women & Families that highlights the intersectional causes of the Black wealth gap.

The American Association of University Women’s fact sheet outlines retirement security issues for women and the policy approaches needed to address them.