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Gray Matters Blog
Why I Love Getting Older
Death with Dignity Challenges Our Fears, Not Our Values
2025: A Year of Resistance, Renewal, and Intergenerational Power
Discover the Impact: GPNYC’s 2025 Annual Impact Report is Here!
When Student Loan Policies Undermine the Healthcare Workforce Who Gets Hurt Most? Women and Minorities.
What We Learned - Legacy Letters: What Will You Leave Behind?
Housing’s Double Whammy for People with Disabilities
Understanding Dementia: A Balanced Perspective
The Challenges of Family Caregiving: a Life-Juggling Act
What We Learned: The Future of Long-Term Care at the VA for Veterans of All Ages (Does Anyone Care?)
How the Government Shutdown Affects Older Persons
What We Learned: Youngers + Olders Dismantling Ageism (YODA)
Cognitive Reserve: Why Wordplay Keeps the Brain in the Game
The Power of Intergenerational Action: Remarks from Jack Kupferman at the UN Youth Forum, 10.10.25
Gray Panthers at the UN: Leading the Global Fight for Age Justice
The Difference Between Aging and Disease (And Why It Matters)
Human Rights: A Subject Neglected in School
What We Learned: Partners in Caregiving—Families, CNAs, and the Power of Working Together
New look. Same fight. Stronger growl. 🐾
The Promise of the Older Americans Act—Now Under Threat
Age Simulation Suit: Teaching Empathy or Ageism?
The Gross, Greedy Bill
Recent Supreme Court Decisions: Where to Even Begin?
New Yorkers: A Reminder to Vote!
Florida Gray Panthers – Al Afterman Scholarship Award
Slashing Medicaid is an Immediate Threat to America
Stop Medicaid Cuts - Stop the Dirty Diaper Bill
Sounding the Huge, Scary Alarm on Medicaid, Medicare, and SNAP
It’s Time for Elder Parole: Justice, Dignity, and Fiscal Sense for Aging Incarcerated New Yorkers
Gray Panthers NYC Signs on to Letter Advocating for Older Americans Act
Gray Panthers NYC Memorandum of Support for the Healthy Homes Right to Know Act
Unintentional Ageism
A Victory in Elder Justice
For a Renaissance of the Gray Panthers Network, Part II
For a Renaissance of the Gray Panthers Network, Part I
Why Americans Would Lose with a Bill Called the SAVE Act
New York Must Take Action on Bill A00479 to Prevent Colorectal Cancer Deaths
The Trump Administration’s Assault on Language is an Attack on Democracy
Reflecting on the EINSTEIN Option Summit: A Landmark Event in Long-Term Care Innovation
Old Age is NOT Depressing
The Disability Squeeze Matters and is a Barrier to Achieving Genuine Autonomy
Gray Panthers NYC on the Start of the Second Trump Administration
Dispelling Generalities about Dementia in Aging
The Cruelty and Illegality of ICE Enforcement in Long-Term Care Facilities
Why Isn’t the New York City Council Fighting to Preserve Traditional Medicare?
How Immigration Crackdowns Could Hurt Long-Term Care
An Open Letter to the U.S. Mission Geneva on the Resolution on the Human Rights of Older Persons at the 58th Session of the Human Rights Council (HCR)
Gray Panthers FAQs: Is There a Chapter in ________?
Some Thoughts on the Killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO
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