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Aging and Place: The Importance of Place in Aging.

This issue highlights research on the multilayered geographic and policy contexts that impact aging across the United States. Articles range in focus from federal, state, and local policies to local programs and the broad environmental contexts in which people age in place. This collection of articles emphasizes the disparate impacts of policies and local contexts on aging, paying particular attention to healthy aging in vulnerable populations (e.g. minority, low-income, rural, and immigrant populations). These articles are coauthored by teams of scientists who span a range of fields represented in the Behavioral and Social Sciences Section of The Gerontological Society of America (e.g., sociology, economics, epidemiology, gerontology). Burgard, Montez, Ailshire, and (2021) provide a framework for thinking about policies and programs to support healthy aging that recognizes the multilayered nature of local, state, and federal contexts in which aging occurs. They focus on the growing inequality in health and life expectancies within the United States, noting that life expectancy improvements have been very differential by state. Montez and Farina (2021) describe the polarization in state policy contexts in recent decades as a source of this diverging life expectancy. Meanwhile, Hamilton and Hagos (2021) indicate that differential health in the United States is affected by the larger social world and that time spent in the United States has more negative impacts on the health of black and Hispanic immigrants than on that of white and Asian immigrants, suggesting links to racism and discrimination. Reyes, Thunell, and Zissimopoulos (2021) examine how the experience of caregiving is integrated into federal and state policies. They highlight the complexity of caregiving due to diversity in caregiver time, relationships, tasks, competing demands, and so forth. However, they point to recent acts adopted by numerous states that begin to recognize the importance of integrating family caregivers as part of the care team as a positive change. State policies are recognized as varying, but federal policies and programs are typically written to be place neutral; however,