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Graying in Color: Aging in Place
As Baby Boomers age, senior advocates and the city administration are bracing themselves for an influx of retirees that is expected to increase New York City’s aging population by a third between now...
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Graying in Color: Seniors Helping Seniors
As Baby Boomers age, senior advocates and the city administration are bracing themselves for an influx of retirees that is expected to increase New York City’s aging population by a third between now...
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In Rego Park, a 65-year-old Bukharian Jewish man discovers a passion for table tennis, learning the tricks of the game from the best – elderly Chinese ladies who have played since childhood. In a...
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Home Care Attendants Put Patients Over Selves During Hurricane
Hurricane Sandy left Ms. Chen and Ms. Luo, two home attendants in Chinatown, without power or running water, but they put their own concerns secondary as they tended to their elderly patients whose own...
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L.I. Group to Help Salvadoran Elderly
Members of the Support Committee for the Jesús Nazareno Nursing Home in El Salvador. (Photo from La Tribuna Hispana) The Support Committee for the Jesús Nazareno Nursing Home in El Salvador was formed...
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Chinese Worried that Abuses at Senior Centers will Tarnish Their Image
NYS has started investigating senior centers for cases of abuse of government benefits. (Video image from Voices of NY / Graying in Color series) In response to community outcry and reporting in the...
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MTA’s Access-A-Ride Not so Accessible
The MTA’s Access-A-Ride program provides transportation services for the disabled but for some patrons, its translation capacities leave much to be desired. (MTA photo, via Flickr Creative Commons...
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Dancing ‘Like a Spinning Top’ at 105
Fidel Feliciano dances with his caregiver Vernetta Darby of Throgs Neck Extended Care Facility. (Photo by José Acosta via El Diario-La Prensa) Of the 312 million U.S. residents, it is estimated that...
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NY Seniors Choose Between Pets and Loneliness
A woman walks her pooch Coqui by a city park. (Photo by Mariela Lombard via El Diario-La Prensa) For many senior citizens, their pet is their only company and becomes an important member of their...
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AIDS Preys on Older, Lonely Straight Men
Lemuel Jones in front of Martin Luther King Jr. Towers in Harlem. He took in a friend who eventually died of AIDS. (Photo by Kurumi Fukushima via NYC In Focus) For some low-income elderly residents in...
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