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GBO NEWS: DACA & Social Security; Hole-y ‘Bucket List’ Films with an Alzheimer’s Nazi Hunter, a Terminal Dog Lover & More

Posted: September 7, 2017 at 1:00 am

GENERATIONS BEAT ONLINE NEWS

 

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

September 7, 2017 — Volume 17, Number 10

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: Decent Americans for Compassionate Action (DACA).

1 .GEN BEATLES NEWS: *** “Jack Rosenthal, Times Journalist and Civic Leader, Is Dead at 82,” A GBONews Remembrance; *** “Brooks,” new blog site of Rodney A. Brooks of Washington Post, Next Avenue, Black Enterprise and others.

2. GOOD RESOURCES: *** National Science Academies Study: Nursing Home Risk Higher Than Thought; *** “Health Savings Accounts Won’t Help Most Older Adults,” Issue Brief from Justice in Aging; *** “Trump’s War On Dreamers And Other Immigrants Is A War On Social Security,” by Nancy Altman, Huffington Post.

3. THE STORYBOARD: *** “When You Can Expect Social Security Reform,” [http://tinyurl.com/yc2gtu3j] by Chris Farrell, Next Avenue; *** “How I Keep the Topic of Aging Fresh,” by Paula Span, New York Times “Insider” column on covering the generations beat; *** “Brain Health for a Song–Aging and the Arts,” by Dawn Davis, Caribbean Today; *** “Rapid Aging of U.S., Latin America Mean ‘Race Against Time’ and Poverty, by Kent Paterson, NMPolitics; *** “Study: Race Bias Doubles Suicide Consideration by Chinese Elders in U.S.,” by Zhihong Li, Sing Tao Daily; *** “Super-Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Made Possible by Brain Scans,” by Lisa Esposito, US News & World Report; *** “A New Age of Aging: How Tech Can Ease the Trials of Getting Old,” by Frank Browning, California Magazine.

4. THE SILVER SILVER SCREEN: *** Legacy Film Festival of Aging in San Francisco (Sept. 15-17); *** Bucket Lists With Holes in Them: *** “The Hero” (Sam Elliot); *** “Youth in Oregon” (Frank Langella); *** “Mr. Pig” (Danny Glover); *** “Remember” (Christopher Plummer). *** The Bucket List” (Moran Freeman, Jack Nicholson). *** And one Spanish winner “Truman (the Dog) that holds water. (Forget the Alzheimer’s Nazi Hunter—Really — Lili Tomlin to the Rescue!)

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