GBO NEWS: New Yorker Falters on Ageism; Conscious Caregiving Book; Older Voters Suppressed; Detroit’s Transit-Restricted Arab Seniors; LA’s Aging Undocumented Laborers; Hard Times for Arizona’s Indian Elders; & MORE
GENERATIONS BEAT ONLINE NEWS
E-News of the Journalists Network on Generations — Our 24th Year.
December 11, 2017 — Volume 17, Number 14
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In This Issue: The War on “Happy Holidays.”
1. THE NEW YORKER FALTERS ON AGEISM: “Why Ageism Never Gets Old” Piece Lapses Into Old Tropes and Misses the Story
2. THE BOOKMOBILE: ***The Conscious Caregiver: A Mindful Approach to Caring for Your Loved One Without Losing Yourself, by Linda Abbitt, Adams Media/Simon & Schuster; ***Jolt: Stories of Trauma and Transformation, by Mark Miller, Post Hill Press, set for February 2018 release.
3. GEN BEATLES NEWS: *** Helen Dennis Celebrated Column’s 16th Anniversary in the Los Angeles Daily News and other papers of Southern California Newspaper Group; *** Happy 95th Birthday to New York Writer Bette Dewing; *** Mazel Tov and Happy Hanukkah to Diane Joy Schmidt for Top Award from American Jewish Press Association
4. THE STORYBOARD: *** “Older Voters Stymied by Tighter ID Requirements,” by Paula Span, New York Times; *** “Paiute Tribe Elders Navigate a Faltering Health Care System,” by Debra Utacia Krol, High Country News; *** “Poor Public Transportation Can Be a Roadblock to the Everyday Needs of Arab-American Seniors” by Julia Kassem, Detroit Journalism Cooperative; *** “Aging Undocumented Day Laborers Face Uncertain Future,” by Jacqueline García, in English: Diverse Elders Coalition.
1. NEW YORKER FALTERS ON AGEISM
*** “Why Ageism Never Gets Old,” by Tad Friend, The New Yorker (Nov. 20): The header includes this tag line: “The prejudice is an ancient habit, but new forces—in Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and beyond—have restored its youthful vitality.” This editor admits to having felt a spark of excitement on seeing the venerable New Yorker publish an extensive piece on ageism, a signature GBONews issue.
Friend, age 55, is the New Yorker’s “Letter from California” columnist, as well as the author of three books and many of the magazine’s “Talk of the Town” pieces on subjects ranging from Hollywood profiles (”Skyping John Malkovich”) to the world’s planetary defenses against asteroids and the potential for mass extinction. His Wikipedia page indicates no previous forays into the topic of aging. And unfortunately, Friend’s ageism article, ostensibly about efforts to confront our culture’s self-defeating atmosphere of age denial, unravels like a sweater as he tugs at the loose threads hanging between modern longevity and eternal mortality.
After pulling variously at the social and psychological strands of our culture’s penchant for recoiling from old age, Friend defaults to denial. He declares, “Ageism, the slipperiest ism, is also the stickiest.” In conceding that our reactions to walkers, canes and other visible signs of mortal decline are real and persistent, he asks, “What makes it so tenacious?”
Friend’s answer is a kind of technology ex machina. He writes, “The only way to eliminate the terror that animates ageism is to eliminate death. The good news, sort of, is that the eager beavers in Silicon Valley are working on that, too.”
In abandoning all hope for those who enter science and technology, though, Friend reveals a novice’s failure to grasp the complexity of modern aging. He acknowledges that advanced economies have seen life extension by more than 30 years in the space of one century. And he interweaves his examination of ageism with important areas of inquiry. But Friend stops short of pursuing the actual research by and tested experiences of gerontological practitioners. At its tedious end, his article falls short of reflecting the well-knit insights of even the most well established gerontological researchers and practitioners to what works today and what remains for the future.
Although the New Yorker’s treatment of this issue is disappointing, some of Friend’s passages broach legitimate concerns, although it does so in ways that only reinforce discredited attitudes about aging and age bias. Still, those aspects of his piece suggest potential frames for other writers.
Two Rockin’ Books
Evidently prompting Friend’s column was the publication of two books on the topic in the past year or so—the just-released Ending Ageism: How Not to Shoot Old People by Margaret Morganroth Gullette, and 2016’s This Chair Rocks by Ashton Applewhite—both of which have been commended here. (This editor was also pleased to provide a blurb for Gullette’s book. At this historical moment when issues of sexism and racism have descended from tweets to daily headlines, some critical national attention to the pervasive undercurrents of ageism seemed much in order.)
GBONews regulars, who have followed issues of aging over time, know that ageism is pervasive but subtle, a point she emphasized in my recent interview with Gullette for New America Media. Yet, the very real effects of age prejudice are clear to anyone who’s become aware of its many manifestations. They range from widespread job discrimination to the physician who speaks over his elderly patient’s head about her condition to her middle-aged daughter, as if the doctor’s patient isn’t even there.
Friend’s dual review begins fairly enough by allowing, “Both grapple thoughtfully with how we got here. Yet each writer tends to see ageism lurking everywhere.” Rather than explore the two volumes’ perceived weaknesses through a well-founded grasp of the issues, though, he recedes into outmoded assumptions about the vicissitudes of old age. No one can deny our mortal uncoiling, and yet one hopes for a studied comprehension of how embedded societal structures and attitudes impede us in later life.
At one point, Friend criticizes Applewhite for attacking “those who carelessly attribute ‘decline to age rather than illness.’” He adds, erroneously, “But the distinction lacks a real difference; age is the leading precondition for most of the decline-hastening diseases, such as cancer, heart disease, and Alzheimer’s. Ageism can be hard to disentangle from the stark facts of aging.” It’s as if he postulated that gender is a leading precondition of sex discrimination.
In fact, such preeminent gerontologists as Leonard Hayflick and Steven Austad have long argued that it’s flatly wrong of science to study aging as a mere collection of discrete disease process. They and other top biomedical experts have contended that there’s been too little research on aging per se to discover the greater sum of mortality beyond the assemblage of our creaking parts.
While Hayflick, Austad and other scientists argue fervently over whether humanity can reach 120 on average or 150, what most agree on is that the levels of infirmity and disability in old age have been declining among those who reach advanced age. A generation ago Stanford University’s James Fries described the process he called the “compression of morbidity.”
Essentially, Fries postulated that more and more of us are on our way to squeezing the period of decline equated with old age toward the end of life. The evidence since then suggest that increasing numbers of us will yield more bonus years of decent health and vitality until we experience rapid deterioration and death within a relatively short stretch at the end. Although there’s been much debate among experts on this, the data has pretty much born this direction out.
In other words, Mr. Friend, yes there is a real distinction between aging and all our ills. His stated presumption is, unlike most of what gets into the authoritative New Yorker, poorly informed.
Good News Age Bias
Not only is there good news for much of humanity, the growing realities of mass longevity also raise serious concerns for our aging selves about the negligence and outright mistreatment people typically face in midlife and later years. Addressing widespread ageism is also crucial for a society that needs people of every age and level of ability to thrive, in order to realize not only our individual potential, but also our collective productivity in the global economy.
Job discrimination, the denial of health and long-term care, poorly adapted social infrastructure from architecture to transportation systems, income and health care insecurity for so many in or headed toward old age are anathema to any hope for American prosperity in the 21st century. Functionality and capability at every level and age are the metrics, not facile misjudgments rooted in outdated groupthink and status-quo mentality.
What’s more, given the genuine miracle of population-wide longevity, the question is: What will we do with that added capacity? Friend too easily regresses to outmoded thinking about ageism in ways that, much as was once the case with sexism and racism, places a drag on social, cultural and economic advancement for the nation.
For instance, at one point he cites a study showing that “having students simulate the experience of being old by donning weighted suits and vision-inhibiting goggles, or exposing them to ‘intergenerational contact’—actual old people—doesn’t lead to kumbaya moments.” That limited result with youth would be unsurprising to many social gerontologists. Such school project have been done often since industrial designer Patricia Moore published her 1985 book, Disguised: A True Story.
The book documented Moore’s years of disguising herself as an old woman while wearing prosthetic devices to impede her vision and mobility, in order to evaluate the age-unfriendliness of many cities. Speaking of ageism, she hospitalized after being mugged when she was spotted by thieves as an easy mark. Moore’s experiential research has placed her among the pioneers of universal design. As for classroom exercises, although empathy might not result immediately among youth fitted with gadgets, Friend might have looked farther to learn about the opposite kind of experiment.
Studies by scholars, including the late Robert N. Butler, MD, who coined the term “ageism,” showed that medical students exposed regularly to a healthy elders living in the community allayed their impression of older people as being generally infirm, cranky and unpleasant—as sick people can often be. Consequentially, the med students’ interest in entering the geriatric specialty spiked from very low before the project to quite high afterward. Over a semester at New York’s Mount Sinai School of Medicine, which Butler founded and directed for many years, the students each had weekly meetings with a senior at a location away from the medical facility. The students almost uniformly bonded with their senior partners and expressed appreciation for their warmth, life stories and wisdom. The pall over the very idea of entering geriatrics that is so commonly reported among medical students lifted, and in the end quite a few changed to favoring the idea of becoming geriatric doctors.
More personally, Friend writes of being touched by the aching experiences of wonderful writers, notably poet Donald Hall and Wrinkle in Time author Ursula K. Le Guin. While they pose important questions about the anguish anyone may experience in very old age, but they do not provide the range of expertise a reporter needs to help readers delve beneath the surface of individual experience.
Much as I love the writings of Le Guin, Friend falters in merely quoting her as fretting that someone of 90 risks a bathtub fall (and presumably a broken hip) if “I believe I’m 45.” This lapse into an “act your age” cliché simply shows that even a great literary sage, such as Le Guin, may lack the knowledge necessary to generalize from personal experience. Apart from presumed unrealistic behavior by some individuals, La Guin—and Friend—don’t consider the need for safer bathtub design for an aging population—part of universal design movement of the past quarter century. The knowledge and successful design exists but have been met with the resistance of commercial housing developers and manufacturers to adopting safer (and attractive) new structures that would be appealing across the ages. Ageist? Maybe just cheap, but the effect is the same, dangerous for seniors and costly for everyone else.
Let Trump Be Accountable (Not Just Old)
Elsewhere, Friend glibly contends that ageism persists today because of public image promoted by characters like grumpy Grampa Simpson and Donald J. Trump, who “is a young person’s idea of an old person . . . The senile, reactionary elder who’s the target of Silicon Valley’s youth bias is a straw man. But that straw man will be hard to dispatch so long as he is running the country.” (Elsewhere, I’ve argued that the media not merely parrot this media-centric view. Instead of blaming Trump’s 71 years for his behavior, let Trump be accountable for being Trump.) Friend, though, would rather accept the power of the stereotype.
On an individual score, Friend finds ageism is pervasive among older people themselves, as represented by the practice of many senior living homes of barring those with canes or walkers from their dining rooms when healthier residents are taking their meals. Although this is a widespread problem, it’s far from an intractable one.
Usually, the practice of setting two meal times for well and frail elders is fallback strategy for management and staff untrained to handle some clients’ fearful reactions to others’ decline. Social gerontologists are well aware not only of how to train facilities and senior centers in maintaining healthier integrated environments—including confronting bullying by difficult seniors of their less-able peers—but they have developed best practices in training staff to resolve their clients’ fears and conflicts.
In failing to get that such problems are matters of better professional training, public understanding, policy reform and improved societal conversations, such as through the media, Friend simply gives up. He asks, “If ageism is hardwired, how can we reprogram ourselves?” Friend cites one gerontologist’s three-ingredient formula (more integration of seniors in communities, bolstering self-esteem to “diminish the terror of aging” and fostering an acceptance of our inevitable deaths). Then he accept this source’s conclusion that “all these directions for improvement are pie in the sky.” Friend then steps in a cow pie underfoot, declaring that ageism is probably inevitable “in this potentially lonely and horrifying universe.”
While Friend’s essay stumbles around the stereotypes of Hollywood and Silicon Valley for answers, Applewhite, Gullette and others find for firmer footing along our culture’s age-denying path. Serious scholars and writers about our rapidly aging society may falter on individual points, but they aim to expose such flaws in the American fabric as our unnecessary loss of productivity from age exclusion, our growing crisis in income and health care insecurity in old age, and the gaping problem of isolation and loneliness among too many in late life.
I recently attended talk for San Francisco’s Institute on Aging by Patrick Arbore, PhD, founder of the model Center for Elderly Suicide Prevention and Grief-Related Service. He spoke of the looming increase in “elder orphans,” people segregated from their communities by a confluence of life circumstances and societal structures, such as unaffordable housing and inadequate social supports. Today’s environment is yet to meet the tests of compassion and empathy. Arbore stated, “If the ageist attitudes persist that old people are going down a rat hole, we’ll never have that conversation about how to address the isolation they feel.”
Meanwhile, the New Yorker’s Tad Friend might spend time with dedicated experts like Arbore to learn, first, that there are genuine solutions, and second, that smarter journalism could help spread them more widely.
*** ALSO, “How an Anti-Ageist Movement Unites,” published by PBS Next Avenue, is Margaret Morganroth Gullette’s “Declaration of Grievances” addressing “social inclusion, well-being and justice” for an aging America.
2. THE BOOKMOBILE
*** The Conscious Caregiver: A Mindful Approach to Caring for Your Loved One Without Losing Yourself, by Linda Abbitt, Adams Media/Simon & Schuster (Sept. 2017).
Reviewed by Susan Ford
Linda Abbitt, a former caregiver with over 25 years of experience, has created a beautiful hands-on book for both family caregivers and those who earn a living as a caregiver. Because caregivers can easily lose sight of themselves in caring for another, Abbitt guides readers in making conscious choices through practicing mindfulness and allowing them to develop self-awareness in the present without judgment. In addressing the common problem of caregiver burnout, Abbitt helps readers discover effect ways to allot time, energy and compassion for themselves, as well as how to use mindfulness and self-care techniques in working with their care recipient.
Abbitt, founder of Tender Loving Eldercare and a contributor to SeniorPlanet.org, does not shy away from exploring emotional complications that most definitely come up for caregivers. For instance, her in-depth chapter titled “The Art of Conscious Communication” sensitively covers communicating with the care recipient, as well as with the family and team of care providers. She shows how caregivers can be creative in avoiding anger, hurt feelings and so on.
Also, Abbitt nicely deals with the issue of giving up driving by offering caregivers steps on how to build transportation alternatives in care recipients’ lives, before they must relinquish the car keys.
In the book, Abbitt, who received Caregiving.com’s 2009 Caregiver of the Year Award, discusses the importance of caregivers serving as advocates for themselves and their loved ones, managing transitions to a hospital or skilled nursing facility when needed,
caregiving with kids at home, as well as conscious caregiving near the end of life and the grieving process after caregiving ends.
The author lays out each chapter with caregiving stories, case studies, exercises and a useful chapter summary. Although this reviewer usually shies away from the kind of exercises included in self-help books, I found myself embracing all that was offered.
The Conscious Caregiver is a beautiful and well-rounded book written from experience and the heart. She provides readers a voice they can hear and also lean on. It is a much-needed tool to help those both experienced and new to caregiving stay present through the many steps of caregiving. In guiding caregivers to developing self-care practices, Abbitt’s book offers a path toward making the journey of caregiving more easeful.
To request a review copy and information, contact Bethany Carland-Adam: email Bethany.carland-adams@simonandschuster.com; phone 508.205.1607. Linda Abbitt is based in Irvine, Calif. Her online contacts are: tenderlovingeldercare.com; www.facebook.com/TenderLovingEldercare; Twitter@LindaAbbit
Reviewer Susan Ford is a San Francisco-based yoga therapist, poet and short-story writer.
***Jolt: Stories of Trauma and Transformation, by Mark Miller, Post Hill Press (February 20, 2018): In his forthcoming book, Miller, a columnist on retirement for Reuters and a contributor to The New York Times and others, examines the resilience of those who have bounced back from jarring experiences, often in midlife, to go “higher and deeper” than others, as they reclaim and remake their lives with a greater sense of purpose.
Miller’s 2010 book, The Hard Times Guide to Retirement Security (Bloomberg), explored how relatively stable people in their 50s and 60s could better manage their finances and plans in the wake of the Great Recession. But he also became aware of those whose lives are jolted, not only by macro economic events, but by the ongoing traumas, he writes, of “sudden job loss, divorce, the deaths of loved ones, and all manner of unexpected health issues, disasters, and near-misses . . . Trauma can destroy lives, yet some people not only survive trauma, they bounce back to thrive and grow.” Some of them set out on “missions to help others or to make things right in the world, while others embark on new careers. Some people simply find that their relationships grow deeper, or seek a stronger spiritual dimension in their lives.”
Digital review copies of will be available soon, and the printed book will be available mid- or late January. To request media review copies, contact Devon Brown, Post Hill Press, email devon@posthillpress.com; phone 615-261-4646 ext. 104.
3. GEN BEATLES NEWS
*** Helen Dennis Recently Celebrated Her Column’s 16th Anniversary. Her weekly “Successful Aging” pieces—almost 800 stories so far–appear in the Los Angeles Daily News and other papers of the Southern California Newspaper Group. Dennis is a gerontologist and coauthor of the Los Angeles Times bestseller, Project Renewment: The First Retirement Model for Career Women” (Scribner’s paperback, 2013).
She wrote in the first of two columns reviewing the past year that after completing “almost 800 columns, I ask myself, ‘Is there more to write about?’ The answer, ‘Yes.’ One reason is that aging is a cross-cutting topic that affects everything from public policy and pensions to testosterone.” 2017, she relied to reader questions on such subjects as scams, loneliness, retirement, age discrimination, volunteering, fitness, legacy, falls and celebrations. She was also recognized in 2016 by PBS Next Avenue as one of the 50 Influencers in Aging.
Her anniversary column summarized the key issues she examined after hearing from readers over the past year: “Successful Aging: Celebrating 16 years and nearly 800 columns with you,” Part 1 and Part 2. Her website is www.HelenMDennis.com, or visit her FB site: www.facebook.com/SuccessfulAgingCommunity.
***Happy 95th Birthday (Dec. 6) to New York-based columnist on aging, Bette Dewing.
*** Mazel Tov and Happy Hanukkah to Diane Joy Schmidt, who took First Place at the American Jewish Press Association 36th Annual Rockower Awards in the Excellence in Personal Essay category. Schmidt, who writes regularly on aging from her base in Albuqueque, won for her column in New Mexico Jewish Link, “What Chanting a Prayer Might Just Do For You.”
4. THE STORYBOARD
*** “Important GOP Tax Provision Shows That ‘Reform’ Is About Gutting the Poor,” by Nick Buffie, Huffington Post (Dec. 5): Formerly of the progressive Center for Economic and Policy Research, Buffie, a DC-based economic policy analyst explains, “The current GOP tax proposal would change the way that inflation is measured under the U.S. tax code. Instead of using an “unchained” price index to calculate inflation, the GOP would switch to a “chained” index. . . . This may sound like an innocent, unimportant provision, but it has serious implications for tax policy. Most notably, the chained price index favored by Republicans tends to increase much more slowly than the unchained index used under current law. Changing the measurement of inflation would decrease the rate at which the tax brackets rose every year and would thereby increase everyone’s personal income taxes.
*** “Older Voters Stymied by Tighter ID Requirements,” by Paula Span, New York Times (Nov. 28): In the 2016 election, “Census Bureau data show, about 64 percent of all adults had registered to vote and 56 percent reported voting. But among those aged 65 to 74 years old, more than three-quarters had registered and 70 percent voted . . . Even among people aged 85 and older, more than 60 percent cast ballots. Still, we don’t make it easy for them. Physical barriers at polling places, a longtime obstacle for the elderly and disabled citizens of any age, can prevent older voters’ participation.”
Span continues, “Federal law requires accessibility, but ‘there’s very little enforcement and resources devoted to ensuring that older Americans and others with disabilities can vote,’ said Wendy Weiser of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University.”
More recently, a wave of onerous state voting requirements has added to the problem, with an outsized effect on older voters, argues a new report Span cites issued by U.S. Senate Democrats Robert Casey (Pennsylvania), and Amy Klobuchar (Minnesota) noting that officials in states adopting voting restrictions cite fears of widespread fraud, a concern that has been debunked by researchers and election officials. “Nevertheless, older people who’d voted religiously all their adult lives are suddenly encountering barriers that effectively disenfranchise them,” Span writes.
Her column presents a good overview of multiple impediments to senior voting. For additional sources, see this editor’s report for New America Media, “New Voting Laws Block Little Fraud–But Many Elders, Women, Minorities” (May 25, 2016).
Recently rolling off the presses and online have been stories sponsored by Journalists in Aging Fellows program of the Gerontological Society of America and New America Media along with the Journalists Network on Generations. Thanks to the Silver Century Foundation, AARP, Commonwealth Fund, Retirement Research Foundation and the John A. Hartford Foundation for supporting this year’s fellowships.
*** “Paiute Tribe Elders Navigate a Faltering Health Care System,” by Debra Utacia Krol, High Country News (Nov. 23): “As federal funding dwindles, remote Nevada tribes struggle for access.” “Three percent, or more than 1,400 of Nevada’s 47,000 Native people, are 65 and over, according to the U.S. Census. Most of the state’s reservations are isolated, hours away from major hospitals and long-term care facilities, and many tribes also have limited economic opportunities.”
Krol quotes Randella Bluehouse, executive director of the National Indian Council on Aging, “We’re having to cut our elder programs.” She added, that federal funding for senior services and other necessities is likely to shrink: “We see grants being cut; [Washington is] shifting resources right out from under our feet.”
The article profiles Dennis Smartt, who suffered a heart attack in 2004, “and, four years later, underwent a quadruple bypass. . . . His heart condition forced him to give up firefighting, and he now relies on Social Security. ‘I’d like to pay off some things, but the government raised my Medicare Part B premium,’ Dennis said. ‘It’s like we just can’t get ahead.’”
*** Krol also was on a podcast panel about “Caring for Love Ones With Alzheimer’s Disease,” on Native America Calling, (Nov. 20): On the hourlong weekly call-in radio program with host Tara Greenwood, Krol explained, “In the next 25 years our Native American and Alaska Native elder population may jump to 500,000. We may be seeing nearly 171,000 cases of dementia in that time. So this has really become a big issues in Indian Country.” Native America Calling is a “National Electronic Calling Circle” broadcast on stations in 18 U.S. States and 2 Canadian Provinces, plus 5 internet stations serving Native American communities.
*** “Poor Public Transportation Can Be a Roadblock to the Everyday Needs of Arab-American Seniors” by Julia Kassem, Detroit Journalism Cooperative (Nov. 27): Nationwide, the Pew Foundation reports that while only 18 percent of urban dwellers born in the United States regularly use public transportation, almost 38 percent of foreign-born city residents rely on public transit. In Metro Detroit, a city without the mass-transit system of a Chicago or a New York – yet with a high concentration of Arab-American immigrants – these statistics become more complicated. Vesna Cizmic, program manager at Samaritas, an organization serving refugees, identifies poor public transportation as the No. 1 obstacle on her clients’ path to self-sufficiency.”
*** “Aging Undocumented Day Laborers Face Uncertain Future,” by Jacqueline García, in English: Diverse Elders Coalition (Nov. 13). Undocumented jornaleros, or day laborers like those in Los Angeles are aging with little support, such as from Social Security, while continuing to do demanding and even dangerous physical work, such as gardening, construction, loading or plumbing, sometimes for employers who refuse to pay them and turn them in to immigration authorities if they complain.
Original story in Spanish “Jornaleros Que Se Acercan a la Tercera Edad Tienen un Futuro Incierto,” La Opinión, Nov. 7, 2017.
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