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Worried by Concussions, Parents and Doctors Push for Safety in Children’s Sports
Clovis Unified School District offers competitive football for students beginning in fifth grade, as shown here in a screenshot of a 2014 video. Photo: YouTube By Derek Walter When children come to Dr....
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Marked Racial Disparities in Money Spent to Help Disabled
By Chris Richard Four years after California legislators vowed to eliminate racially and ethnically-linked disparities in spending on services to the developmentally disabled, funding gaps persist,...
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L.A. Metro Moving Bar on Health
By Jessica Portner On the Sunday after Thanksgiving, a mass of people were bunched up together on an L.A. Metro Rail red line train that rumbled underground towards Downtown L.A. from Hollywood. Kids...
View ArticleAdding Dental Services to Health Clinics Could Expand Access, Report Says
By Hannah Guzik Only a quarter of young children enrolled in California’s low-income health program receive preventative dental care — a statistic that state officials and advocates are urgently...
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What’s in Your Shopping Cart?
Luis Gregorio Ruiz and Dr. Maureen Villasenor discuss his purchases in an Anaheim grocery store. Photo: Jazley Faith Sendjaja Turning Around Orange County’s Persistent Disparities By Amy DePaul Having...
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Why Alameda County Fails to “Get” Old
By Matt Perry Aging services in California are often hamstrung by dysfunction and uninspired leadership. To understand the problem, look no further than Alameda County’s top aging official. Just as...
View ArticleACA repeal could be big blow to working poor
By Daniel Weintraub California probably gained more than any other state from the Affordable Care Act, the federal health reform better known as Obamacare. Now, with the program facing almost certain...
View ArticleEverything I Knew About Aging Was Wrong, Or, Why I’ll Spend a Week Homeless...
By Matt Perry Everything I knew about aging was wrong. That was the first lesson I learned when I plunged headfirst into the world of aging as a reporter five years ago. What did I get so wrong? We...
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“I Like to Listen”: The Need for Eldership in Challenging Times
Nader Shabahangi By Nader Shabahangi A group of mostly elders in their 80’s and 90’s liked coming to the Elders Academy presentations every Wednesday afternoon in the cozy Forget-Me-Not-Café, a part of...
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Mission Possible: Change the Story of Aging
Paul Irving By Matt Perry In the heart of Los Angeles, the storytelling capital of the world, Paul Irving is busy changing the narrative of aging. Irving had already spent several years as head of The...
View ArticleAccessible Yoga
The Accessible Yoga movement is introducing yoga to older adults and others not normally included in this largely young, white, middle-class movement: people with disabilities, ethnic minorities,...
View ArticleStrong Social Ties Lead to Better Breast Cancer Outcomes, Study Finds
By Hannah Guzik Patients with strong social ties tend to experience better health, and that appears to true for breast cancer patients as well, a new study has found. Women with invasive breast cancer...
View ArticleCalifornia’s Poor and People of Color Benefited Most From Health Care Reform,...
By Hannah Guzik California’s embrace of the Affordable Care Act has allowed millions of residents to enroll in health coverage, with low-income residents and people of color seeing the largest drops in...
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A Campaign to Make L.A. Apartments Smoke-free
By Jessica Portner Esther Schiller, who suffers from extreme asthma, is a clean-air advocate of a particular kind—she crusades for smoke-free housing. Years ago, when cigarette smoke wafted into her...
View ArticleRepealing the ACA Could Put Health Coverage of Nearly 5 Million Californians...
By Hannah Guzik If the federal Affordable Care Act is repealed, as some Republican lawmakers and President-elect Donald Trump have proposed, nearly 5 million Californians could lose health coverage,...
View ArticlePrEP Awareness Programs Aim to Reduce Disparities in New HIV Infections
By Linda Childers Although one of the most powerful biomedical drugs in the fight against HIV/AIDS has been available for the past four years, California health officials say the disease continues to...
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Lost and Found in the City of Angels
By Matt Perry Falling stars are the stuff of Hollywood legend. Early film industry folklore had it that the Pacific coast was littered with the bodies of actors who failed to make the transition from...
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Food Allergies Impose an Additional Burden on California Families Struggling...
Jen Smith, a teacher in Clovis, spends hours each week on extra food prep for her son, Marty Smith, and hundreds of dollars annually on specialty foods that her son isn’t allergic to. Photo courtesy of...
View ArticleOnly a Third of California Doctors Are People of Color, But 60 Percent of...
By Hannah Guzik Fewer than half of doctors and nurses are people of color in California, a state where 60 percent of the population identifies as Latino, Asian American or African American, according...
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Creating Age-Friendly California
Bob Prath. By Bob Prath At the front lines of California’s rapidly aging demographic, California mayors and local leaders are taking a fresh course of action to make their communities age-friendly, and...
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