Prescription Drug Addiction on the Rise Among Elderly in the Bronx
The Kingsbridge-Riverdale neighborhood in the Bronx has some of the city's highest rates of prescription pain medication use -- and misuse -- found a study by the city's Department of Health and Mental...
View Article‘Prayer Gang’ Preys on Chinese Seniors
The "Prayer Gang," a group of Chinese women who have bilked Chinese elderly people in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan out of at least $1 million, has the police department and several community...
View ArticleElderly Chinese Worry About Social Security Office Relocation
A Social Security Administration office that has served Chinatown and Chinese-speaking residents from surrounding areas for nearly four decades was scheduled to move this week -- for the second time...
View ArticleGraying in Color: Aging Actively Among Your Own
To serve New York City’s growing – and increasingly diverse – elderly population, senior center organizers are abandoning the “one size fits all” approach to senior care, and instead gearing programs...
View ArticleGraying in Color: Aging in Place
What happens when a whole block or housing development gets older together? "Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities," known as NORCs, sometimes compel the city to bring the services to the seniors.
View ArticleGraying in Color: Seniors Helping Seniors
In New York City, there’s no rest for the retired. As senior centers struggle to serve a growing and increasingly diverse elderly population, they often find themselves turning to the seniors...
View ArticleSpecial Project: Graying in Color
Getting old in New York City, it turns out, can actually be pretty fun. Voices of NY's four-part multimedia project reports on how some of the city’s senior centers are finding new ways to create...
View ArticleHome Care Attendants Put Patients Over Selves During Hurricane
Two home attendants lost power and water but the elderly patients became their priority, the World Journal reported. In the dark, they struggle to give them hot food and to carry water up many flights...
View ArticleL.I. Group to Help Salvadoran Elderly
A group has been founded in Brentwood to assist in the construction of a nursing home in El Salvador, which will house homeless seniors and let them "enjoy their remaining life in dignity," reports La...
View ArticleChinese Worried that Abuses at Senior Centers will Tarnish Their Image
The government crackdown on Chinese adult day care centers for milking the system when it comes to benefits has left Chinese people concerned that these acts will tarnish the perception of the...
View ArticleMTA’s Access-A-Ride Not so Accessible
The MTA's failure to provide interpreters and translated materials to non-English speaking disabled and elderly passengers is leaving many out in the cold or scrambling for alternatives to use the...
View ArticleDancing ‘Like a Spinning Top’ at 105
El Diario-La Prensa is celebrating it's 100th anniversary but at the annual Centenarian Celebration in the Bronx, the publication found someone older, Fidel Feliciano. The paper had a Q-and-A with the...
View ArticleNY Seniors Choose Between Pets and Loneliness
For many senior citizens, their pet is their only companion to an often lonely life. However, as El Diario-La Prensa reports, keeping a pet in New York apartments comes with numerous obstacles.
View ArticleAIDS Preys on Older, Lonely Straight Men
The disproportionately high levels of those diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in Harlem are attributed to older men in housing developments who look to cure loneliness with unprotected sex, reports NYC In Focus.
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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...
View ArticleSpecial Project: Graying in Color
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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