Monthly Archives: June 2017

GBO NEWS: World Aging Conference; GOP Senate Bill—Savings vs. Deaths; National Press Club Award to KHN’s Anna Gorman; WSJ on Doctors “Too Old to Practice?”; & More

Posted: June 28, 2017 at 1:00 am

GENERATIONS BEAT ONLINE NEWS

E-News of the Journalists Network on GenerationsOur 24th Year.

June ­28, 2017 — Volume 17, Number 7

Editor’s Note: GBO News, e-news of the Journalists Network on Generation publishes alerts for journalists, producers and authors covering generational issues. Send your news of important stories or books (by you and others), fellowships, awards or pertinent kvetches to GBO News Editor Paul Kleyman. You can subscribe to GBONews.org at no charge simply by sending a request to Paul with your name, address, phone number and editorial affiliation or note that you freelance. You’ll receive the table of contents as e-mail, just click through to the full issue at www.gbonews.org.

In This Issue: Oh-oh, CBO says, 22 million. Hey, look over there—Syria! Iran!

1. AGING & THE WORLD: *** Reporters at World Congress of Gerontology & Geriatrics, San Francisco, July 23-27.

2. HEALTH CARE REFORM SCHOOL:  *** “Senate Leadership’s Health Bill a Big Tax Cut for Top One Percent,” Tax Policy Center; *** 29,000 Lives Lost a Year– Lack of Insurance Deadly?  Annals of Internal Medicine; *** And Now a Word from Our History: “GOP Health Bill—How We Got Into This Mess,” by Paul Kleyman, New America Media.

3. GEN BEATLES NEWS: *** KHN’s Anna Gorman Wins National Press Club Award; *** Diane Joy Schmidt’s Double Honors in All New Mexico Press Women Awards; *** KQED Reporter Alice Daniel, Gets Fulbright to Teach Journalism in Accra, Ghana.

4. GOOD SOURCES: ***American Indian Diabetes Prevention Center’s Digital Stories website [http://aidpc.ouhsc.edu/DigitalStories.asp] has seven short family videos–A kidney for his daughter!; ***Alliance for Health Policy is new name of Alliance for Health Reform;

5. THE STORYBOARD: *** “When Are Doctors Too Old to Practice?” by Lucette Lagnado, Wall Street Journal; *** “Aging Parents, Immigrants and the Caregiving Cliff,” by Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes; *** “Death Goes Public” series by JoAnn Mar on “End Of Life Radio” series from San Francisco’s KALW public radio broadcasts fifth story, “Let’s Talk about Death over a Nice Meal.”

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