‘We Care’ project highlights challenges faced by AAPI families in caregiving

The National Asian Pacific Center on Aging (NAPCA) has produced four videos as part of their “We Care” project, highlighting the challenges ...

How South Korea’s grandmas are returning to school

Last year, an 82-year-old woman made headlines as the oldest student to take South Korea’s notoriously difficult college entrance test. We k...

Meet the Japanese pop ‘boy’ band consisting of men all over the age of 65

Japan has an all-senior-citizen male idol group who once helped promote a prefecture’s tourism industry. Key details: The five-member group,...

Japan demographic crisis: 1 in 10 residents are aged 80 or older

The country’s death rate has consistently surpassed its birth rate for over a decade, making it a pressing concern for local leaders ...

Man brutally attacks elderly shop worker in LA Chinatown robbery

Los Angeles police are investigating a violent robbery in Chinatown that has left an elderly smoke shop worker hospitalized. What happened: ...

Elderly Asian couple held at gunpoint in another Seattle home robbery

Another elderly Asian couple fell victim to a home invasion robbery in south Seattle this week. What happened: A group of five young, male s...

Seniors do the catwalk in lavish Chinese modeling pageant

The curtains have been drawn at Beijing’s 36th annual Middle Age and Senior Modeling Contest, where older contestants strut their style on t...

Asian senior killed in Chicago Chinatown crash, leaves behind paralyzed wife

A 78-year-old Asian man has died after being hit by a van in Chicago’s Chinatown more than a week ago. Guo Ning Li, a Chinese immigrant, was...

Yale professor backpedals after floating ‘mass suicide’ for Japan’s aging population

An assistant professor at Yale is taking a softer stance on Japan’s aging society after stirring controversy by suggesting that the “elderly...

91-year-old woman with dementia punched, knocked into concrete in SF attack

A 91-year-old woman has reportedly fallen victim to a seemingly random attack in San Francisco’s Richmond District. The incident occurred at...

Elderly woman kicked in stomach on SF Muni bus: ‘As an Asian American, I don’t feel safe’

A 79-year-old woman was kicked in the stomach while boarding a San Francisco Muni bus on her way to work on Dec. 3. The victim, identified...

Chinese woman dresses up as an elderly person so her grandfather, 96, will recognize her in the afterlife

A Chinese woman wore makeup and clothes to make herself look older, so her 96-year-old grandfather will recognize her as an elderly woman wh...

Cafe Maddy Cab: Program that pays cab fares for NYC AAPIs vulnerable to hate crimes relaunches

Food influencer Madeline Park relaunched her Cafe Maddy Cab program on Sunday in response to the rising rate of anti-Asian hate crimes in h...

Elderly Malaysian man who orders dinner for 8 but dines alone has netizens offering to eat with him

In a Facebook post uploaded on March 18, Zupi Bakhtiar describes having seen an elderly man ordering dinner for eight, even though he was a...

Asian American woman, 70, punched in the face in unprovoked Boston Chinatown attack

A 70-year-old Asian American woman said she was walking along Harrison Avenue in Boston’s Chinatown when a middle-aged white man punched he...

Singaporean woman, 82, fears for her future after moving overseas to be with daughter who stopped caring for her

An elderly woman claims that her daughter refused to take care of her after she and her husband sold their Singapore home and moved to Austr...

NYC Asian elderly are not leaving their homes over fears of being attacked, study finds

Community-based organizations focused on helping Asian seniors have reported that many of them are not leaving their homes over fears of be...

Two men stabbed multiple times while trying to help 61-year-old Asian woman being robbed in Queens

A 61-year-old Asian woman was stabbed in the back and robbed outside of Louie’s Pizza at Baxter Avenue and Judge Street in Elmhurst, Queens...

Elderly Asian woman who was struck in the head with rock in Queens attack wakes from her 2-month coma

GuiYing Ma, the 61-year-old grandmother who was bashed in the head with a rock in Queens, New York, has woken from her two-month coma,  Ma w...

‘We feel helpless’: Elderly Asian attack victims meet to call out SF DA for alleged mishandlings

Anh Lê, 69, and Rong Xin Liao, 85, met for the first time on Monday in a mutual show of support as fellow victims of violence. The defenda...

SF Chinatown attack victim’s legal team says suspect was on foot, DA never communicated potential plea

A week after Anh Lê filed a federal lawsuit against the San Francisco District Attorney, his lawyers are accusing the office of releasing “...

A year after NYC brutal hate assault, daughter searches for Good Samaritan who saved her elderly mother’s life

Almost one year after a brutal assault in broad daylight, an elderly Filipina American and her daughter speak out about how it feels to be a...

Daughter of NYC elderly woman beaten in broad daylight weighs in on new anti-Asian racism film

“The Race Epidemic” documentary aims to memorialize the surge in anti-Asian hate crimes throughout the pandemic. Vilma Kari, an elderly ha...

Elderly Asian man dies 8 months after being stomped in the head while collecting cans in NYC

Yao Pan Ma, 61, was collecting cans to make ends meet when Jarrod Powell allegedly attacked him last April. Ma wound up in a coma, and his...

‘I can’t give you a motive’: Prosecutors clueless why Chicago Chinatown killer shot 71-year-old man

Prosecutors are still reportedly clueless about the motives behind the seemingly callous murder of a 71-year-old Chinese man near an element...

71-year-old man shot and killed outside elementary school in Chicago’s Chinatown

An elderly 71-year-old man was killed from gunfire in Chicago’s Chinatown on Tuesday. The incident: The shooting occurred in broad daylight ...

Elderly Asian man who was kicked while in his walker at the beginning of COVID faces attacker in court

Nearly two years after an attack that required multiple stitches to his head, an 84-year-old Asian man reportedly met his alleged attacker f...

Suspect sought in unprovoked stabbing of 71-year-old Filipino man waiting for El Cajon trolley

Police in El Cajon, Calif. are searching for a man who allegedly slashed and stabbed an elderly Filipino man in a brutal attack while he wai...

SF attorney seeks public’s help identifying man who attacked his elderly parents in Bay Area

Charles Jung, an attorney from the California Asian Pacific American Bar Association, is asking the public for help with identifying the man...

Japanese American internment camp survivor dies at 100, lawsuit ongoing against nursing home

Grace Watanabe, who was among the thousands of Japanese Americans forcibly detained in U.S. internment camps during World War II, has passed...

Suspect arrested after assaulting elderly Asian woman, stabbing a good samaritan in SF

San Francisco police arrested a suspect after he allegedly assaulted a 66-year-old Asian woman and stabbed another woman who attempted to ch...

LA County reports 76% increase in anti-Asian hate crimes in the past year

Los Angeles County has reported a 76% growth in anti-Asian hate crimes in the past year. The stats: On Wednesday, the Los Angeles County Com...

Lisa Ling talks aftermath of receiving death threats, what its like being a journalist covering anti-Asian hate

Award-winning investigative journalist and CNN host Lisa Ling tackles a history of anti-Asian rhetoric in the U.S. while adding a personal l...

‘Get the f*ck out of Tacoma!’: Elderly Cambodian nun injured in attack at Wash. Buddhist temple

A 67-year-old Buddhist nun was left with an injured head and ribs after she was attacked in Tacoma, Wash., late last month. What happened: N...

NYPD looking for man who punched, dragged elderly can collector in attempted robbery

The New York City Police Department (NYPD) is searching for a man who chased, beat and dragged an Asian elderly woman in an attempted robber...

‘They had him by his face’: Elderly Asian man mauled by two pit bulls in Texas

A 67-year-old Asian man in Harris County, Texas, suffered critical injuries after falling victim to two loose pit bulls that viciously attac...