Ethnicity, Race & Aging Getting older in Multi-Cultural America. Coming Soon!

About Life (Part 2) Host  Robert Lipsyte talks about the realities of baby boomers and leads a conversation to help overcome their denial and face facts: "...the time to do something about age-related issues is right now."

In About Life (Part 2) you will find roundtable discussions, on-location field pieces, one-on-one interviews, and video essays that provides real insights and advice about about topics such as: careers, Boomer marriages, care giving, finances, dating in mid-life, plastic surgery, fighting ageism-and more. In this videos you will see guests that include Martha Stewart, Mike Huckabee, Billie Jean King, Phil Donahue, David Hyde Pierce, Joy Behar, and our very own Dr. Giang Nguyen, Principal Investigator, "Our Stories, Our Health", and New Routes Leader.

"For older immigrants who may be linguistically isolated and also have a lot ofcultural differences, what we have seen is that they end up becoming childcare for their grandchildren, and they often don't drive. The older you are when emigrate here, the less likely you are to drive. So they become prisoners of their own home and they don't become really involved in their communities because they're stuck at home taking care of grandkids, who may or may not speak the language that they speak. So here they are taking care of people that they can't really communicate with and they're also sort of shut off from the broader community. And in some of my work with Southeast Asian immigrants in Philadelphia, we found that these elders are really eager to get involved in their communities and when they're given the opportunities to go out and participate in after-school programs or participate in community cleanup days and things like this, they really enjoy it. But if no one reaches out to them and provides that opportunity, it's a great missed opportunity."

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If you want to learn more about what other immigrant groups are doing to improve their health and the contribution to their communities visit New Routes to Community Health.

New Routes is a new approach for improving the health of immigrants through immigrant-created media. Eight diverse immigrant-led collaborations across the United States have received three-year grants from New Routes to create locally-focused media and outreach campaigns that speak directly to immigrants’ health concerns.

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Tags: Aging, Ethnicity, older adults, Race
Topics: Civic Life, Immigrants