GBO NEWS: Refugee Elders in Kentucky; Aging While Black; Advance Review Copies on Elderhood, Working While Older; Aging Stats Coast to Coast; Immigrants’ Happy Meals Taste of Home; & MORE
GENERATIONS BEAT ONLINE NEWS
E-News of the Journalists Network on Generations – Celebrating 26 Years.
March 22, 2019 — Volume 26, Number 4
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In This Issue: Democrats Announce Latest Candidate—New Zealand!
1. THE STORYBOARD (SERIES EDITION):
*** “Elder Refugees in the Bluegrass State” (3-part series) by Rhonda J. Miller, WKU Western Kentucky Public Radio;
*** “Fatal Falls” (3-part series including “Why Wisconsin Has Highest Deadly Falls Rate in U.S.”) by David Wahlberg, Madison Wisconsin State Journal:
*** Aging While Black (2-part series), by Rodney Brooks, USA Today;
*** Food Insecure in Tennessee, by Lisa Gillespie, WFPL Louisville Public Radio;
***Nashville Gentrification (4-part Series), by Peter White, The Tennessee Tribune.
2. GEN BEATLES NEWS: *** Tennessee Tribune learns Nashville’s mayor releases millions for seniors’ affordable housing as Peter White’s exposé runs. A coincidence?
3. THE BOOKMOBILE: Advance Review Copies Now Available for: Chris Farrell’s Purpose and a Paycheck: Finding Meaning and Happiness in the Second Half of Life; *** Dr. Louise Aronson’s Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life.
4. THE CONFERENCE BEAT: *** Aging in America (AiA) Conference in New OrleansApril 15-18; 16thWhat’s Next Boomer Business Summit, within AiA, April 18.
5. AGING COAST TO COAST: *** “Planning for California’s Longevity Wave,” by Marcy Adelman, San Francisco Bay Times; *** “The Graying of Manhattan,” by Douglas Feiden, Our Town; *** “For Aging Immigrants, Food from Their Homelands Is Key to Happiness,” by Jaya Padmanabhan, The Bold Italic; *** “Older Americans Are Awash in Antibiotics,” by Paula Span, New York Times
1. THE STORYBOARD (SERIES EDITION)
Major series on refugee elders in Kentucky, preventing falls in Wisconsin, seniors’ hunger in Tennessee have appeared recently by reporters in this year’s Journalists in Aging Fellows Program, the project of GBONews.org’s parent organization, the Journalists Network on Generations, in partnership with the Gerontological Society of America. This year’s 36 reporters from both mainstream and ethnic media in the United States is supported by grants from the Silver Century Foundation, AARP, the Commonwealth Fund, the Retirement Research Foundation and the John A. Hartford Foundation. Here are links to the latest in-depth fellowship series.
*** REFUGEE ELDERS IN KENTUCKY — Part 1 “Elder Refugees in the Bluegrass State Face Challenge of Language Barriers,” by Rhonda J. Miller, WKU Western Kentucky Public Radio (3:50 min. audio with photo slide show, Jan. 8, 2019): “One of the biggest barriers refugees face when they arrive in America is learning English. A program in Louisville, Ky., helps refugees who are 60 and older cross the language barrier . . . Interpreter Patrick Bagazaspeaks with 90-year-old Therese Nyamubyeyiduring a trip with the Louisville Refugee Elder Program to the Speed Art Museum . . . . The museum trip is one of the many ways the Louisville Refugee Elder Program encourages better English language skills.”
Part 2 — “Louisville Program for Elder Refugees Is A Buffer Against Isolation” (Jan. 24, 2019): “When elder refugees arrive in America they leave behind violence or religious persecution, as well as family, culture and their native language.” A Louisville program helps refugees ages 60 and older “transition to American life and avoid isolation.”
Part 3 — “Elder Refugees In Kentucky At Risk for Hunger” (March. 7, 2019): “Feeding Kentucky, a nonprofit with a mission to alleviate hunger across the Bluegrass State, reports that food insecurity is a reality for one in 10 residents ages 60 and older.Elder refugees in Kentucky face an ever higher risk of hunger due to language barriers and lack of transportation.” The story continues, “There’s no specific data on how many elder refugees are food insecure. But director of the University of Kentucky’s Center for Poverty Research, James Ziliak, said we can look at related data. He’s co-author of the annual report, The State of Senior Hunger in America. ‘We do know that, in general, immigrants overall face higher risk of food insecurity than persons born in the United States,’ said Ziliak.'”
*** “FATAL FALLS” Series by David Wahlberg, Madison’s Wisconsin State Journal (March 3-5, 2019): Click for links to full series parts: Part 1 — “Wisconsin Has Highest Rate of Deadly Falls Among Older Adults”(March 3, 2019): “Deaths from falls in Wisconsin outnumber deaths from breast and prostate cancer combined. Falls resulted in about 129,000 emergency room visits and nearly 16,000 hospitalizations in 2017, according to the state Department of Health Services. Medical charges for falls, paid mostly by the taxpayer-supported Medicare and Medicaid programs, exceeded $1 billion.”
Part 2 — “Falls in Facilities for Elderly Part of Wisconsin’s High Rate of Deadly Spills” (March 4, 2019): “Operators say there is a fine line between protecting residents’ safety and their autonomy — especially in assisted living, which is designed for people who aren’t as feeble as those in nursing homes and has fewer regulations.”
Part 3— “Targeted Programs Can Reduce Deadly Falls by Elderly, Address Wisconsin’s High Rate” (March 5, 2019): “Classes, home assessments and medication reviews are key ways seniors can reduce their chances of falling in their homes, where more than half of the state’s deadly falls among the elderly occur.”
*** AGING WHILE BLACK: Part 1 — “Aging African Americans Hit With Double Whammy: Health, Financial Troubles” by Rodney Brooks, USA Today (Feb. 6, 2019): “An array of health and financial problems converge on African-Americans as they age, posing a potentially devastating impact on them. Blacks are more likely than whites to suffer medical conditions that lead to more severe health problems and higher health care and insurance costs as they grow older. Their health problems are exacerbated by financial troubles that include lower savings, homeownership rates and Social Security income than whites. . . . Says Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, CEO of Global Policy Solutions, a Washington, D.C., social-change strategy firm, . . . ‘By the time we reach an age when chronic diseases catch up with us, we are … dropping out of the workforce and relying on disability or taking early Social Security retirement.’”
Part 2 — *** “African Americans Face Greater Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease Than Whites,” by Rodney A. Brooks, USA Today (Jan. 28, 2019): “A decade ago, Rushern Baker III started seeing signs that something was wrong with his wife when she was still in her late 40s. Christa Beverly was forgetting things and losing things. Then, she was hopelessly lost only blocks from her parents’ home.”
Brooks continues, “An estimated 5.7 million people live with Alzheimer’s in the United States, including 1 in 10 over 65, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. . . . ‘Everyone should be concerned, but African Americans are twice as likely to have Alzheimer’s, less likely to receive a diagnosis and more likely to be diagnosed in later stages,’ says Joanne Pike, vice president of programs for the Alzheimer’s Association in Chicago.”
*** FOOD INSECURITY — “For Some Older Adults in Louisville, Daily Nutrition Is a Struggle, by Lisa Gillespie, WFPL Louisville Public Radio (Jan. 29, 2019):
Part 1 –“Shaun Claycarries two large grocery bags to a bus stop in Shelby Park — it’s been about three hours since he left his house in Shawnee to get to this food pantry. He’ll wait for this bus for about 25 minutes — it’s late — and spend another hour-and-a-half on two buses to get home. His feet hurt, his back hurts. Clay, 61, is on a fixed income, which is why he’s shopping at the food bank rather than the grocery store about a mile from his house. He also has a list of chronic health conditions including congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. And these are conditions that probably won’t be helped by the bags of largely processed food he’s picking up.”
Part 2 – “For Low-Income Older Adults, Some Food Access Solutions Go Further Than Others,” (Jan. 30, 2019): “Living in an apartment building for low-income seniors in NuLu, amid all the development in the neighborhood and coupled with the recent closure of several grocery stores, Geneva Clarksonsaid she feels like she and other older adults struggling with food insecurity have been forgotten. ‘Countless times my doctor has said, “OK, it will be good if we can get the weight down a little bit,” and I say, “I’m not trying to sound mean, but in my income bracket and in my neighborhood it’s next to impossible to do,”’ Clarkson said.Her neighborhood is pushing forward with new restaurants and amenities, but she doesn’t see the same progress for people like her.
*** NASHVILLE GENTRIFICATION — 4-Part Series by Peter White for The Tennessee Tribune. See the full series at http://tinyurl.com/y3cqfb68. Individual stories include:
Part 1 — “What’s Killing Nashville’s Black Neighborhoods?” (Jan. 31, 2019): “Single family homes used to line the 700 block of 26thAvenue N. But several lots are now empty, the modest houses gone, and the families who lived in them have moved away. Tonya Wade-Moodystill lives in one of the remaining homes. And she is plenty angry. ‘Where are the affordable homes? All of these people are being kicked out, put out of their homes. You’re bringing in these high-priced condos and apartments. The average person can’t afford that,’ she said to the City Council [in December]. Not a single person on the 41-member City Council voted to preserve the old neighborhood so people could keep living where they raised their children, can grow old, and may leave their house to the next generation.”
Part 2 – “Elderly Homeowners are the New Expendables as New Development Invades N. Nashville,” (Feb. 14): “Older black homeowners are expendable in the new wave of development that is hitting North Nashville like a tsunami. It is wiping out dozens of single-family homes in the black district around Fisk University, Nashville General Hospital, Meharry Medical College and Tennessee State University. They are all black institutions with storied histories that go back more than a century. The community that gave rise to them is being fractured and dispersed.”
Part 3 – “Nashville Next: Where’s the Beef?” (Feb. 21): “Nashville Next is a 25-year master plan to turn Music City into the proverbial ‘city upon a hill,’ a shining example of tolerance and equal opportunity. Its major assumption is that Nashville’s unprecedented growth will bring prosperity and progress to everyone. After the City Council passed an inclusionary zoning housing bill in September 2016, the Republican-majority state legislature killed it. Another affordable housing initiative, the Housing Incentives Pilot Program had its $2 million budget cut to $550,000. Legislation was enacted, but not a single unit of affordable housing got built in Nashville in a year and a half after those bills were passed.”
Part 4 –“Building Safety-Net Housing in Shark-Infested Waters,”(Feb. 28, 2019): “Nashville doesn’t have basic best-practice tools in the toolbox to help preserve affordability where people want to live, where their roots are, and where they want to remain. Until the decisionmakers feel that it’s in their interest to get behind better efforts to do good planning with the proper resources, we will continue to struggle and our communities will suffer. But Nashville’s Habitat for Humanity is building an entire subdivision in the White’s Creek area. And the nonprofit Be a Helping Hand Foundation builds rental housing for seniors and disabled residents under a federal Housing and Urban Development (HUD) program. Another nonprofit making some headway there isUrban Housing Solutions.”
2. GEN BEATLES NEWS
*** Tennessee Tribune investigative reporter Peter White got word that his four-part series on increasingly unaffordable housing in Nashville, including for seniors, evidently helped trigger surprisingly quick results from City Hall. Detailing how housing options have languished, especially for low-income, often long-time residents in the wake of gentrification, the series ran through February in White’s newspaper, the African American weekly, The Tennessee Tribune. (See the summary above.)
White described how inclusionary goals of the city’s ambitious 25-year master plan, titled “Next Nashville,” have languished since its 2015 adoption because of budget cuts and other factors. Long-time older black homeowners have been bought out or compelled to move as investors have gobbled up real estate to develop high-market condos and rentals in “Music City’s” variation on the housing crisis seen throughout the United States.
On March 15, the region’s Gannet-owned daily, The Tennessean, reported, “In an unprecedented move in recent Nashville history, Mayor David Briley plans to spend millions of dollars in city funds over the next decade to redevelop Nashville’s aging public housing. Briley is expected to announce the redevelopment financing, and an allocation to the city’s affordable housing grant fund later this month, according to multiple sources who were briefed on the proposal.” The mayor announced the funding as he heads into his reelection campaign.
White e-mailed GBONews, “The point: Never underestimate what a little paper can do .” He went on to credit this year’s Journalists in Aging Fellows Program for enabling him to pursue the investigation, writing, “I wouldn’t have attempted such an ambitious story without your support.”
*** As San Francisco and the literary world celebrate Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s 100th Birthday on March 24,KALW radio reports that when an admirer asked what present he’d like, her replied, “Get me back my first girlfriend.”
3. THE BOOKMOBILE
***Review Copies of Chris Farrell’s New Tome, Purpose and a Paycheck: Finding Meaning and Happiness in the Second Half of Life (Amacom/Harper Collins Leadership) are available. Okay, so the title is packed with every marketable buzzword you can spackle a wrinkle with, but the author, previously, of Unretirement, is one of the sharpest and least pie-in-the-retirement-sky writers on the case. His strong and thoroughly researched prose frames the issues with enthusiasm.
Purpose and a Paycheck, while including the requisite surfeit of later-life entrepreneurial examples, stands firmly with employee interests. Of course, the book covers the familiar litany of benefits for employers in becoming more open to developing phased retirement options, flexible benefits (increasingly also attractive to younger workers), and other innovations. But Farrell is clear from the outset that corporate America’s adherence to shareholder interests–that is, short-term thinking, which perceives in HR policies a cost advantage in pushing out their most experienced workers–undercuts the longer-term business benefits imbedded in what he calls “stakeholder” interests.
While Farrell fully acknowledges that the “dark undercurrents of economic and financial insecurity have reinforced angry political tensions,” he frames his reporting on the ageism undermining American full productivity in terms that are both well-documented and aspirational: “A new era of broad-based prosperity is within our grasp. Older adults are in the vanguard of inclusiveness by breaking down barriers to staying employed. The fight for purpose and a paycheck is a battle for respect and recognition.”
Farrell adds that, far from dragging our economy down, the rapid rise of the older population, according to recent research by Oxford Economics and the consulting firm Accentuate, “The growing number of experienced workers could increase U.S. gross domestic product by an additional $442 by 2020 compared to a baseline of no change in labor force participation rates.”
Farrell asked that writer’s looking for a review copy should drop him an e-mail request at: cfarrellecon@gmail.com.
* Still going until we’re still: Particularly apt as a coda for Farrell’s volume is his initial quotation from an essay by John Kenneth Galbraith, titled “Notes on Aging,” written age 90. Said the great, late economist, “The Still Syndrome is the design by which the young or the less old daily assail the old. ‘Are you still well?’ ‘Are you still working?’ ‘I see that you are still taking exercise.’ ‘Still having a drink?’ As a compulsive liberatusI am subject to my own assault, “I see you are still writing.’ ‘Your writing still seems pretty good to me.’ The most dramatic general expression came from a friend I hadn’t seen for some years: ‘I can hardly believe you’re still alive!’”
Our pal, author Herbert Gold, who turned 95 on March 9, would likely appreciate Galbraith’s notation. Gold titled his last memoir, Still Alive, A Temporary Condition.
*** Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life, by Louise Aronson, MD (Bloomsbury, June 2019): To weigh in when it’s published in June at 1.7 pound with 464 pages—and with advance reading copies now available to reporters–you might think Aronson’s much anticipated volume could double as a speed bump for scooter traffic knocking seniors off their walkers. But also know that the Harvard Med School-trained geriatrician holds and MFA in fiction writing, has won literary awards, and can spin some pretty engaging non-fiction prose.
Why “elderhood? Aronson explains, “I have devoted as much of this book to history, literature, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and stories as to science.” Although, science has its promise and “power advocates,” she continues, “I wanted to add another perspective, to show that when we take a single approach to a complex challenge, we sacrifice not only accuracy and truth but opportunities to make life more of what we hope for need and less of what we fear and dread.” She adds, “Elderhood is life’s third and final act—and what it looks like is up to us.”
A professor at the University of California, San Francisco, Aronson has published articles in media ranging from the New England Journal of Medicineto the New York Timesand Washington Post.
Journalists can request an advance review copy from sarah.new@bloomsbury.com / (212) 419-5371.
4. THE CONFERENCE BEAT
*** The Aging in America Conference is set for April 15-18 at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans. The annual meeting of the American Society on Aging, it’s one of two large multidisciplinary professional conclaves in the field. (The other is November’s Gerontological Society of America, to be in Austin, Texas this year). Both include hundreds of speakers on a wide range of topics in aging.
Reporters interested in covering the conference need to fill out a detailed SurveyMonkey questionnaire online. It says, for example, “Those requesting a media pass may be asked to confirm their status with information as listed on the outlet’s masthead or by presentation of a published article or electronic piece. Freelancers may also be asked to provide at least two published or electronically released pieces issued in the previous year.” There’s a long list of questions and stipulations. They don’t, however, ask reporters for a DNA swab.
If you happen to be in the New Orleans vicinity, though, there will be a lot of major leaders on hand, as well as special niche mini-conferences within the big program, such as the National Forum on Politics and Aging, the Third Annual Summit on Livable Communities, and the What’s Next Boomer Business Summit. Check with the organizers of these special programs, though, because they may have separate access for media.
*** That said, regarding the 16th What’s Next Boomer Business Summit, April 18, GBONews.org readers may know that this editor is a big fan of this daylong program and has been a speaker. The program always provides valuable insights on trends and developments in the commerce and related technologies in the field. Some key topics and panels will focus on senior housing, home care, financial security, caregiving and end-of-life issues, and the role of technologies, such as Voice Assist, VR, AI, wearables, the influence of social media.
Some Gen Beatles on this year’s program will be Sally Abrahms(Not Your Mother’s Retirement), Chris Farrell (Purpose & a Paycheck), Rich Eisenberg(managing editor, PBS News Avenue, Kerry Hannon(a dozen books and articles practically everywhere), Jay Newton-Small (Memory Well and Time Magazine), among others.
Host Mary Furlong, with co-producer Lori Bitter, are both welcoming of reporters and engage numerous journalists and authors as speakers and session moderators. Reporters can request a complimentary press registration from Ben Adkins.
5. AGING COAST TO COAST
*** “Planning for California’s Longevity Wave,” by Marcy Adelman, San Francisco Bay Times(March 18, 2019): Adelman, one of prime sources on LGBTQ aging in the country, writes an exceptionally informative monthly column for SFBay Times, and this one is especially pertinent to today’s difficult housing environment for seniors of any orientation in urban America.
She writes, “California is at an inflection point to ensure the health and well-being of the state’s rapidly expanding senior population. California is home to one of the largest, fastest growing and most diverse senior populations in the country. By 2030, the state’s older adult population is projected to double. By 2050, 1 in 4 Californians will be age 60 and older. This longevity wave of California older adults will need policies and programs responsive to its needs and aspirations . . . . Governor Gavin Newsomhas called for a master plan for aging to prepare for the rapid population growth of California’s older adults. Here are some of the issues that need to be addressed.
“California’s older adult population will not only be larger, but it will also be older, have fewer financial and family resources, be more diverse and more invested in staying socially and civically engaged than previous generations. The Public Policy Institute of California estimates that the fastest population growth will take place in people age 75 and older and with a higher percentage of never married and/or divorced elders who are single, live alone and are childless. LGB older adults are significantly more likely to live alone than heterosexuals.
“Older adults with limited family support systems will likely rely more on professional in-home care and community-based services to assist them to stay in their homes for as long and as well as possible. We can also expect an increase in the number of people who will need a higher level of care, such as nursing facilities, assisted living and dementia care. Currently, there is a state-wide shortage of nursing and dementia care facilities, and in-home care is too expensive for many Californians. More nursing facilities need to be developed and in-home services will need to be more broadly available and affordable.”
Adelman, a clinical psychologist, continues with other important details, such as, “Latinos and Asians are the fastest growing elder communities in California.” A past Purpose Prize winner, she co-founded the nonprofit Openhouse and serves on the California Commission on Aging.
*** “The Graying of Manhattan,” by Douglas Feiden, Our Town (“The Local Paper for the Upper East Side” of Manhattan” (March 5, 2019): Start spreadin’ the news, New York, New York: Feiden writes, “The census of Upper West Side seniors has skyrocketed over the past decade: There are now 41,194 adults north of age 65, a stunning climb of 44 percent. In the same period, between 2007 and 2017, the older population in Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen shot up 38 percent and the number of Upper East Siders in that age bracket rose 31 percent. Contrast those tallies with the citywide and statewide figures, where the growth in the over-65 set, while still robust, was a much smaller 24 and 26 percent respectively.”
He cites a new report, “New York’s Older Adult Population is Booming Statewide,” from the Center for an Urban Future: “There are more residents aged 65 and above in Manhattan than there are people under the age of 19 — that is the largest spread of any county in the state, by far. On the other side of the spectrum, the number of residents below age 65 is stagnating or shrinking. Over the past decade, the city’s non-senior population managed only a two percent increase, while the tally in Manhattan actually declined by 2 percent, the CUF report found.” (Thanks to Our Towncolumnist Bette Dewing for tipping off GBONews to Feiden’s demographic update. Her March 13 column, headlined, “Gray Is Great, Bald Is Beautiful” comments on age segregation in the Big Apple.
*** “For Aging Immigrants, Food from Their Homelands Is Key to Happiness,” by Jaya Padmanabhan, The Bold Italic (San Francisco Bay Area, March 18, 2019): Subhead: “Stories from California’s immigrant seniors clinging to the flavors of their past.” In a story that’s bound to make you hungry, Padmanabhan, a columnist also for the San Francisco Examiner, explains, “Food bought, cooked, served and eaten is collectively the barometer of my mother’s moods, which are intricately entangled with her health. When she’s bustling around the kitchen, cooking sambar, kootuor olan with squash and winter melon, and boiling snake gourd or sautéing long beans to serve as a side dish, she’s cheerful and animated”
She continues, “My mother, who immigrated to America in her late 70s from India, views the world through the lens of food. The act of eating or drinking is not only one of survival; it’s an emotional configuration. She is happiest when she has access to the foods she once ate back home, as though harnessing the taste of her memories. She has never tried pasta, pizza, burritos, sandwiches or salads . . . . She keeps a very close, if obsessive, vigil on her Indian vegetarian palate. And she is not the only one.”
The story profiles immigrant seniors from China, the Philippines, Russia and elsewhere and programs in California and Florida catering to their tastes. Padmanabhangoes on, Globalization and immigration patterns are changing the makeup of the elderly in America. As America ages, so does the immigrant population. By 2030, older adults will outnumber children. In 2010, more than one in eight adults 65 years and older were foreign born, according to the Population Reference Bureau.
Further, she writes, “The Migration Policy Institute reports that in 2010, California had the most number of foreign-born seniors (1.3 million) in the country. It is predicted that people of color, primarily Latinos and Asians, will make up 55 percent of California’s senior population by 2035, compared to 41 percent today. This changing population requires a rethinking and recalibrating of how we deliver elder care. While there is much research on seniors and social isolation, not much attention is paid to seniors and the issue of cultural isolation, and, in particular, its linkage to food.”
*** “Older Americans Are Awash in Antibiotics,” by Paula Span, New York Times (March 19, 2019): Span’s “New Old Age” column in the Tuesday “Science Times” section continues to be one of the best written and reported news sources on the generations beat.The drugs are not just overprescribed. The drop head explains, “They often pose special risks to older patients, including tendon problems, nerve damage and mental health issues.”
Span adds, “ Patients over age 65 have the highest rate of outpatient prescribing of any age group. A new C.D.C. study, published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, points out that doctors write enough antibiotic prescriptions annually — nearly 52 million in 2014 — for every older person to get at least one.”
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