Sistah's Aging with Grace & Elegance - SAGE
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SAGE is a movement to create culturally affirming community support and facilities for Black women and women of color concerning the issues of Aging well.
There is inequality for Black people in all American institutions: education, health care, banking as well as income inequality and brutality and injustice in the criminal justice system. The cumulative impacts over a lifetime can result chronic health problems including heart disease, hypertension, cancer, and diabetes. Scientific studies have begun to reveal a host of physical health benefits surrounding happiness including a stronger immune system, stronger resilience in the face of stress, a stronger heart and less risk of cardiovascular disease, alongside quicker recovery times when overcoming illness or surgery. She is Co-Founder of Sistahs Aging with Grace & Elegance (SAGE) and has 30 years of experience in public agency communication including cause marketing, media relations, community outreach and engagement.
We extend our heartfelt thanks and deep gratitude to all our Presenters, Performers, SageSistahs, Volunteers and to our strategic partner, the California Black Women’s Health Project. Our Sistahood is even more important because we are staying home more, uncertain what is next, and being especially careful about staying healthy and safe for ourselves and for our loved ones. With so much going on, we still need to nourish our sensual selves with soft fabrics on our skin, luscious aroma to escape into, and soothing music to sway our hips. We want you to remember these four important documents: Power of Attorney, Health Care Power of Attorney, Advanced Health Care Directive and HIPPA waiver of authorization.
The article, The Forgotten Middle, by Steve Moran summarizes the NIC study that shows Many Middle-Income Seniors Will Have Insufficient Resources For Housing And Health Care,” The NIC study focused on housing availability and options for middle-income seniors as well as health care and care services for seniors 75 years and over in 2029. The growth in the number of women will outpace that of men, with women constituting 58.3 percent of middle-income seniors in 2029 compared to 56.0 percent in 2014. Future middle-income seniors will also be more racially diverse than today’s seniors, with increases in the shares of Hispanics (from 2.4 percent to 6.3 percent) and blacks (from 5.0 percent to 6.7 percent). Black women have the highest rate of poverty for those 65 years of age and above (21 percent), followed by Hispanic women,” according to a 2016 report ,”Aging Women and poverty in California” produced by the California Commission on Aging and the California Commission on the Status of Women.
Oh what a whirlwind year Sistahs Aging with Grace & Elegance (Sage Sistahs) had in 2018 as we convened our “Celebrating the Aging Journey Sistahs Aging with Grace & Elegance is calling on SageSistahs throughout California to share their challenges, triumphs, insights, complexities, and words of wisdom to be included in the 2020 SageSistahs Storytelling Project. The 2020 SageSistahs Storytelling Project will consist of essays, video vignettes, poetry, photos, and other expressions to be included in a Sistahs Aging with Grace & Elegance Calendar and other promotional materials to encourage more sistahs to join us in Celebrating the Aging Journey. Sistahs Aging with Grace & Elegance is partnering with an organization called Village Movement California to explore creating a community-based, designed, and driven African-American centered Village Model in the Los Angeles area that helps our elders to age in place and live independently for as long as possible.