“I know I’m going to get older. I can handle that, and I even know that I am going to...

The last place one would expect to find ageism well and flourishing is in the helping professions, particularly among those...

New York-The Radical Age Movement held its first public event last evening at the New York Ethical Culture Society.  One...

I have been a grandmother for over 17 years. It is a role that I covet, yet circumstances in our...

We are having a conversation, social worker to social worker, about the older constituents and clients who we each try...

Working in a legislative office, I’ve come to learn that people are always at least 20 steps in advance of...

Like many women my age, I participated in the feminist consciousness raising movement of the sixties. It was a powerful...

What century is this? I have been obsessed lately with the retrograde decision made by the Supreme Court in the...

When people ask what I do, my reply is always, “I’m a political social worker.”  The response is usually, “what...

Surveys show that most people when asked prefer to spend the last years of their lives in their homes rather...

How do you feel when you sit down to unwind in front of the television at the end of the...

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If we are not welcome in the workplace and we are expected to live well into our nineties and beyond,...

In the 60’s, we raised our voices to put an end to racism, sexism, and to end a war.  Now,...