About AgingOven

AgingOven is a space for method-driven policy analysis focused on aging, health, and equity. It exists to examine how policy design shapes visibility in practice, and how eligibility rules, defaults, omissions, and implementation choices determine whose lives systems are built to recognize.

The work published here is not commentary and not advocacy by volume. AgingOven is used for analysis that requires more precision and continuity than is typically possible in posts, briefs, or comment letters. It is a place to slow policy conversations down and look closely at how design decisions become outcomes.

AgingOven treats lived experience as evidence of system behavior rather than as anecdote. When referenced, lived experience is used to surface how systems function at the point of use, and how abstract policy language translates into concrete consequences.

This space is intentionally low-cadence. Posts are published when there is something to examine, not to meet a schedule. There is no commitment to volume, regular updates, or topical coverage.

AgingOven is authored and edited by David “Jax” Kelly and is situated within the work of the Aging and HIV Institute. While informed by that institutional context, AgingOven is not a program, publication outlet, or organizational update stream. It is a place for analysis.

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