This report, Women and the Workforce: Challenges and Opportunities Facing Women as They Age, looks at how factors such as unemployment and underemployment, pay inequality, caregiving, age and gender discrimination, and education, training, and technology are impacting women age 40 and older.  Produced by The Older Women’s League (OWL),  The Voice of Midlife and Older Women […]

This article describes the challenges of selecting eldercare arrangements for African American elders that lived in pre-integration America.  The author, Paula Span of the New York Times online, was contacted by an adult child wanting to tell her father’s story.  The adult child was looking for residential or home care for her father when she concluded, […]

This article by Kathy Quan provides a concise summary of the findings regarding differences in elder care among different populations from an AARP study entitled, “In the Middle: A Report of Multicultural Boomers Coping with Family and Aging Issues.” The report provides some interesting information about the extended non-nuclear family as well as the traditional family […]

Making sure that LGBT elders have healthy, secure, and rewarding lives requires reaching out to the mainstream aging community.  At the event, “Understanding and Meeting the Needs of LGBT Elders,” sponsored by Center for American Progress Action Fund in 2010, Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin discussed the need to address lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender inequality and […]

A cross sectional survey of 600 middle-aged black and white adults with both children and aging parents found that although both races felt obliged to help their parents, black adults tended to provide greater support to their elders.  The study published in 2010 in The Gerontologist concludes that the reported sense of obligation to parents […]

This New York Times article from 1998 profiles one man caring for his elderly mother and explores the culturally specific commitment to family-provided elder care, as well as discussing probably historical roots.

The brief, African American Aging and Health Care Relevant to Care and Caring Near and at the End of Life, (2002) from Rallying Points reviews literature on trends in elder care and end-of-life treatment in African American families.  Rallying Points is an initiative of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Last Acts campaign to improve care […]

Caregiving obligations are deeply felt in many Hispanic families; even those with few resources traditionally have not hesitated to assume responsibility for aging parents. This Newyorktimes.com article by Karen Stabiner published in 2011 describes the caregiving obligations ingrained in Hispanic communities.  Referred to as familialismo, this describes the cultural conviction of immediate family (specifically women) […]

Conducted by the National Alliance for Caregiving in Collaboration with AARP this special report, Caregiving in the U.S.,  published in 2009 provides an overview of what care giving looks like for Hispanic, African American and Asian caregivers of people over age 50.  The report describes differences among these ethnic groups, how care giving impacts their […]

A video from Evercare and the National Alliance for Caregiving  includes Hispanic population statistics from the first in-depth study of Hispanic Caregiving in the United States. In this video from 2009, in addition to the data, hear the family caregivers tell their story (bilingual with subtitles).