The Pandemic Year: What I've Learned

On this grim anniversary of the pandemic, we've invited our Influencers in Aging to reflect on how they're shifting their thinking and to share lessons we can all take from COVID-19 moving forward.

An American Indian Reflection on COVID-19

A Next Avenue Influencer in Aging's views on loss, resiliency and relearning the ways of tribal elders

Love Your Neighbor as Yourself: But How?

A rabbi's view of the wisdom that came, or should have come, from COVID-19

Are There Silver Linings From the COVID-19 Anniversary?

Why this Influencer in Aging, an AARP thought leader, believes there are three

How, and Why, I Got Over My COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy

This Influencer in Aging doctor made a personal calculus, weighing the risk-benefit equation

Reflections on the Plague Year From an Anti-Ageism Activist

The pandemic didn't make ageism worse, it exposed what's been there all along

What COVID-19 Taught Us About Race, Health and Wealth

A Next Avenue Influencer in Aging's reflections on brain health equity

COVID-19 Showed That Technology Can Be the Great Equalizer

But in the pandemic, some older adults were on the wrong side of the digital divide

My COVID-19 Experiment With Multigenerational Living

Could I survive a dose of my own rhetoric when my in-laws moved in behind our house?

The Wisdom I Gained From Older Patients in COVID-19

This Influencer in Aging, a geriatrician, made a list of facts, impressions and contradictions