GBO NEWS: NYT’s Bogus Old vs. Young Attack; Free Aging-Conference Book Online with Reporting Sources; WHO to Release Arts & Health Study, Nov. 11; AHCJ’s Bruzzese Steps Down; Peters-Smith New Sarasota Herald-Tribune Opinions Editor; Seegert Appointed Fellowship Coordinator; Long-Term Care Crisis; Uninsured Kids Hit 4 Million; & MORE
GENERATIONS BEAT ONLINE NEWS
E-News of the Journalists Network on Generations – Celebrating 26 Years.
November 5, 2019 — Volume 26, Number 13
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In This Issue: Today the First Day of the Rest of Your Term.
1. UNIMPEACHABLE SOURCES: *** GSA Meeting Book Online with New Research Leads and Experts; *** WHO’s First Arts & Health Report, Nov. 11; *** San Francisco’s New End Ageism Campaign.
2. GEN BEATLES NEWS: *** Barbara Peters-Smith New Opinions Editor at Sarasota Herald-Tribune; *** Assn. of Health Care Journalists Exec Len Bruzzese Stepping Down; *** Liz Seegert Takes on Reporting Fellowships.
3. AGEISM WATCH: *** REALLY, NY TIMES? “Out With the Old, In With the Young”; *** 1,967 NYT Readers Answer Astra Taylor’s Ageist Story
4. THE STORYBOARD:
*** “The Coming Long-Term Care Crisis,” by Meagan Day, Jacobin;
*** “Employers Still Behind in Tackling Ageism,” by Meghan McCarty Carino, Marketplace;
*** “For These Seniors, Entrepreneurial Ambition is Far From Retiring,” by Paul Solman, PBS News Hour;
*** “Number of Uninsured Children in U.S. Increasing, Study Finds,” Philanthropy News Digest.
1. UNIMPEACHABLE SOURCES
*** GSA Conference Book — Whether or Not You’re Going In Person: Reporters can still apply for a complimentary press registration at www.geron.org/press. On hand will be almost 4,000 professionals from about 30 countries, and presentations of nearly 500 scientific sessions with new research and analyses on pretty much every subject area of aging.
BUT, the 200-page conference program PDF is now posted for online. (It is somewhat searchable. If the standard search bar does not appear at the top when you open it, you may to enter Command F, or Control F, to reveal the search-word space the top of the opening page.) Every conference session or “Poster” paper title represents new research and analysis by experts in aging a reporter may be able to use for your stories. GSA’s Todd Kluss usually can help you with the contact information with listed speakers to interview about their presented studies: tkluss@geron.org; phone 202-587-2839.
Conflicts of Interest: Just as peer-reviewed scientific journals list industry grant support for research discussed in an article, academic associations, such as GSA, list participants who may, for example, receive grants from or work for an industry entity or, perhaps, own a for-profit business, such as for consulting in the field. In the GSA program book, you’ll see the “Index of First Authors – Disclosures/Conflicts of Interest.” The “first author” is simply the lead person for the listed session number. Turn or scroll to that session for more information.
GSA also provides a new mobile app with a more robust search engine for the program. Especially designed for mobile users, it can be downloaded both for our mobile device or iPad, but not to a laptop. Here’s the link to access the app: Click here to download the app. (The link that says “Click here to take notes” is the link to a less robust web version.) Whether you use the app or the web version, you will be asked to create an account (separate from your GSA login), and it will generate a password and email it to you.
A companion piece is GSA’s “Minority Supplement,” a 20-page booklet showing all of the conference presentations addressing issues for racial/ethnic groups, women, people with disabilities, LGBTQ seniors, etc.
This version of the program includes the “abstracts” for each session at the GSA meeting, which are short descriptions of the research that will be presented. The mobile app also has a rich search function. In the browsing options, you can even browse by topic (which GSA calls “session codes”), such as “minority & diverse populations.”
Or you can just search for the terms of your choice. When typing in a word in the search bar, the app starts producing results by category, like speakers and presentations. So if one were to type in “Chicago,” the app would allow you to click on a link taking you to presentations that mention Chicago, or a link taking you to a list of speakers with Chicago in their affiliation or city. This app even has a feature that allows presenters to upload their slide presentations, and if their slides are available, an app user can make notes about them and discern enough of the content to decide whether to follow up.
Of special interest to journalists who will attend the GSA conference in person will be a press lunch briefing, Thurs., Nov. AARP’s Public Policy Institute will announce findings from the latest research in the “Valuing the Invaluable” report series with updated estimates on the number of family caregivers and the economic value of family and friends caring for an adult in America. Authors of the report will discuss key trends in family caregiving and policy developments, and solutions.
Also, attending reporters are invited to the Journalists Reception and Meet-Up, Fri., Nov. 15. Reporters will gather in the Press Room on Level 1 of the Austin Convention Center at 5 p.m. Starting with vino or softer sips and initial light nibbles, we’ll circle up the chairs and go around to find out who else is there and what people are covering. After everyone snacks for a while on story ideas and trends, GSA will wheel in the carts with more substantial fare as the conversations continue.
*** WHO’s First Arts & Health Report, Nov. 11: The World Health Organization will release its first-ever report on the evidence base for arts and health interventions in Helsinki, Finland next Monday. According to their website, “The Health Evidence Network (HEN) synthesis report maps the global academic literature in English and Russian. It references over 900 publications, including 200 reviews covering over 3000 further studies. As such, the report represents the most comprehensive evidence review of arts and health to date. . . . The launch will also be streamed live via the WHO/Europe website. A link will be available closer to the day of the event. More information about the programme will follow in due course.”
The release explains, “Arts interventions, such as singing in a choir to improve chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, are considered non-invasive and low-risk options. Increasingly, Member States are using such interventions to supplement more traditional, biomedical treatments. The evidence synthesized in the report will be used to provide suggestions for integrating the arts, social care and health sectors to support health and well-being throughout the life course and across the continuum of care.”
It continues, “Journalists can access the HEN report and accompanying media materials, under strict publication embargo, ahead of the official launch. To obtain these and to bid for interviews with the report authors, please contact Ms Andrea Scheel (scheela@who.int).” The launch event will be live streamed at 8-11:00 Central European Time and reporters are invited to: Watch the launch event live . Additional online sources include:Fact sheet – What is the evidence on the role of the arts in improving health and well-being in the WHO European Region? And Cultural contexts of health and well-being (CCH) .
*** San Francisco’s New EndAgeism.com Campaign: Fog City old timers may recall the late San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen tagged our town, “the city that knows how.” Well, maybe more than others, and here’s one good example. We received a notice last month that SF is becoming “one of the first cities in the country to launch a campaign to raise awareness of ageism, disrupt negative stereotypes of older adults, and connect residents with supportive services. A partnership of the San Francisco Human Services Agency’s Department of Aging and Adult Services (DAAS), Metta Fund, the Community Living Campaign, and a network of over 30 community providers and advocates, the Reframing Aging San Francisco campaign is based on local research and a growing national movement towards creating more inclusive communities around aging.”
The release links to a chart showing “our population of older adults is growing substantially. Projections by the California Department of Finance indicate nearly 30 percent of residents will be age 60 or older by 2030.” It explains, “The Reframing Aging San Francisco campaign grew out of findings in the 2016 and 2018 DAAS community needs assessments and recommendations from the Age- and Disability-Friendly San Francisco Task Force. This research found that feelings of invisibility and exclusion from mainstream society often prevent older people from actively participating in their community and contribute to isolation, a key negative determinant of health. The Department also identified a need to improve public awareness of services so that older adults and their families know how to access support. The campaign is also guided by innovative research from the Frameworks Institute, a think tank that develops research-based strategies to drive social change.”
*** “5 Takeaways from Harvard’s ‘Housing America’s Older Adults 2019’ Study,” by Lois A. Bowers, McKnight’s Long-Term Care (October 17, 2019): Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies recently released report its “Housing America’s Older Adults 2019”.
The five takeaways include: *The need for affordable housing, supportive services will increase; *Moves will increase; services will be needed; *Many older adults prefer larger buildings (“Those in their 80s may prefer larger multifamily buildings because they are more likely to offer accessibility features, such as elevators and single-floor living, . . “.); *Cost burdens lead to food, healthcare issues; *Some areas are worse than others when it comes to housing cost burdens.”
2. GEN BEATLES NEWS
*** Barbara Peters-Smith Appointed Opinions Editor at Sarasota, Florida’s Herald-Tribune: In the newspaper’s announcement, executive and general manager, Matthew Sauer say Peters-Smith, a 31-year veteran of the daily “has an encyclopedic knowledge of the community and has written about many of the issues that will demand her attention in coming months and years.”
The story goes on, “Most recently, Peters Smith covered the city of Sarasota and the Sarasota County Commission, also finding time to write ‘Slice of Sarasota,’ a highly popular weekly observational essay. Before that she was the company’s health and aging reporter, winning numerous international, national and state awards, including an accolade from the American Association for the Advancement of Science for her work writing about HIV research in an aging population.”
The paper’s article continues, “Peters-Smith has literally changed the face of elder guardianship in Florida, with a series that prompted statewide legislative reforms and stricter court monitoring that has provided greater piece of mind for seniors throughout the state. Last year, Peters-Smith won a national economics award for a project on income disparity and she was a finalist for Florida Journalist of the Year.”
A former Journalists in Aging Fellow, Peters-Smith e-mailed GBONews, “I’m pretty thrilled about it. I was taken off the aging beat . . . and have really missed it. But I hope to circle around and write some editorials on aging issues for our network of Florida papers.”
As for the Herald-Tribune’s long-running generations beat, Peters-Smith e-mailed, “I think a new reporter will be coming on board.”
*** AHCJ Exec Len Bruzzese to Step Down: The Association of Health Care Journalists announced that after 15 years at its helm, Executive Director Len Bruzzese “has decided he wants to step away from spearheading the organization’s day-to-day operations.”
In a statement, AHCJ board president Ivan Oransky, M.D., wrote, “Len has agreed to stay in his role for the next eight months. Plus, he will serve as a consultant for at least the following two years, which will provide the next executive director a senior adviser with unique insight to continue growing our beloved organization.” AHCJ will celebrate his leadership at Health Journalism 2020 in Austin next spring.” The association is embarking on a national search for a new director.
GBONews readers who may be interested in applying for the position, or know someone who might be, can find a basic job description on the organization’s website. AHCJ headquarters are at the University of Missouri in St. Louis, and applications will go through the Missouri HR website. (That application page may not be up right away, so, if not, send questions or initial notes of interest to Oransky at ivan-oransky@erols.com.
*** As we’ve geared up for the 10th Journalists in Aging Fellows Program in Austin, Texas, next week the Journalists Network on Generations (JNG, the publisher of GBONews.org) has also staffed up. For the first time, we’ll present veteran generations-beat journalist Liz Seegert as our new program coordinator for the fellowships with JGN, the journalism collaborator with the Gerontological Society of America (GSA). This year the project selected a total of 20 reporters from the mainstream and ethnic media to attend GSA’s Annual Scientific Meeting, Nov. 13-17. (See more below on GSA reporting resources for those attending the conference or not.)
Seegert, whom many GBONews readers know from her extensive freelancing credits and her role as the topic editor on aging for the Association of Health Care Journalists, has been working with JNG and GSA on the fellowship program since last spring. For the 11th year in 2020, nonprofit grantmakers willing, she will become the program’s co-director, picking up primary editorial management responsibilities from me, Paul Kleyman, the fellowship program’s co-founder (and GBONews editor). I will continue my involvement in the program in a consulting role from my “unretirement” perch over this keyboard.
She has been working closely with the program’s Co-Director and GSA Communications Director Todd Kluss, who has been part of the fellowship program’s team from its start in 2009, both overseeing its many operational details and providing guidance to reporters on content, context and expert sources.
Especially well qualified to help lead the Journalists in Aging Fellows Program, Seegert combines over three decades of experience as a reporter and editor on health, aging and other subjects for print, digital, and broadcast media, with past positions as director of media fellowships at New York’s Hunter College and the George Washington University School of Nursing. Her work has appeared in such media outlets as the PBS website Next Avenue, Consumer Reports, AARP.com, Medical Economics, The BMJ, (British Medical Journal), Stria News, Alz.live, and Cancer Today. Her reporting has also been syndicated nationally through the Connecticut Health I-Team (C- HIT). She also co-produces the HealthCetera podcast, (available on iTunes). She holds a bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Journalism from Boston University and a master’s in social policy from Empire State College, State University of New York.
3. AGEISM WATCH
*** REALLY, NEW YORK TIMES? “Out With the Old, In With the Young” by Astra Taylor covered almost three page of the Oct. 20, 2019 “Sunday Review” section. What’s especially odd about Taylor’s screed is that, aside from its blatant ageism, GBO’s editor, old, white male that I am, would otherwise heartily agree with many of her policy prescriptions, from ending gerrymandering to fighting climate change to her plea for “universal access to college and medical care.” What’s more, only two years ago, Taylor wrote in The Nation critically of how vulnerable older Americans: “When Growing Old Means Living in Your Car, Working in an Amazon Warehouse.” Yet, in promoting the reduction of the United States voting age to 16, she strangely assigns blame for the presumed disenfranchisement of youth to “a hoary establishment [that] hoards influence, curtailing young people’s ability to effect change.”
Rather than identifying reasons for intergenerational common cause, Taylor riddles her tale with exactly the kinds of contradictions that observers of old-age politics would expect from an argument based strictly on the vilification a broad demographic bogie.
Taylor indicts even “liberal” elders, notably centrist Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-CA, as being “dangerously blasé about the future.” But she only later invokes the youth appeal of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT. At one point Taylor, age 40, sidelines her disdain for the presumably undue political sway of “people not long for this earth” to don an editorial gray wig and call on “those of us who are older, if not wiser” to joining young activists “to support forward-looking policies, and we also need to protest.” Is she completely unaware of elder activists like the Raging Grannies protest groups or, say, Medea Benjamin, 67, relentless leader of Code Pink? Or how about bless her handcuffed soul, Jane Fonda, 81, in her current quest to get arrested at rallies over climate change.
More significant, though, is that for all of Taylor’s apparent research on such areas as youth economics, she has failed to dig into the looming retirement crisis facing the United States. She shows no awareness that the proportion of ethnic/racial elders will double by 2040 to four in 10 seniors in the U.S. Gerontology experts have shown that while the sorely outdated federal poverty line sets elder impoverishment, at 9.7%, lower than the rest of the U.S. population, the official measure fails to include exploding expenses elders need to make ends meet, such as out-of-pocket health care costs, and the growing rental and home-maintenance burdens for seniors on fixed incomes–especially for older women. The Elder Economic Security Standard Index, UCLA’s Health Policy Center, for instance, has shown that half of those 65-plus in California are either in poverty or struggling in some ways to meet their needs. The Elder Index, created at UMass Boston, has reveal similar figures in other states.
For all of Taylor’s anger over elder “affluence,” her age-based opprobrium is woefully deficient of areas with cross-generational impacts, such as persistent age discrimination for older workers, the rising homelessness among those over 50, or the massive hit on homeownership across age groups detailed in the book, Homewreckers. Its author, Aaron Glantz of the Center for Investigative Reporting exposes the exploitation of Great Recession foreclosures, including many seniors, by, yes, older billionaire investors—some now heading key financial Trump administration cabinet posts. Most egregiously, though, Taylor seems oblivious to the quiet crisis of unaffordable senior housing options and the related lack of long-term eldercare coverage in the United States.
Predictably, Taylor’s article elicited many rebuttals, including a preponderance of the 1967 letters to the editor that the Times received before closing the online mail bag. In at least in one case, though, she declined anti-aging leader and author Ashton Applewhite’s challenge to a debate. Taylor emailed the author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism, telling Applewhite, “Nice to hear from you. I’m a feeling very buried by work,” adding, “I don’t think I can take on anything else — and I don’t have anything more to say besides reiterating what’s in the piece.” Nothing more to say, no more to learn? How about, no collusion and no quid pro quo?
Stating, astonishingly, that readers should not perceive her essay “as anti-old at all” and disavowing the Timesheadline, as “clickbait,” Taylor insisted to Applewhite that she merely analyzed the age bias of America’s capitalist system. As for the NYT’s headline writers, they did their job; they distilled her messages correctly. One cover line, for instance, reads, “Old people have the money and power. Young people have been left out. But for how long?”
Taylor’s piece asserts, “The boomers who came of age in the 1950s and ’60s benefited from boom times while millennials and Generation Z have been dogged by the aftermath of the mortgage meltdown, an underwhelming recovery and Gilded Age levels of inequality.” Ah, yes, those booming benefits rendering all that senior privilege, such as from ubiquitous age discrimination, especially in the youth-mired tech (and “dude”-dominated) industry as exposed at IBM, for instance, by ProPublica. Taylor’s insistence that her diatribe is directed only at structural economic factors favoring the old wilts when one also considers the impact of gentrification, much driven by today’s tech economy, on both old and young.
At one point Taylor states, “Our democracy is dominated by the old, and young people are getting a bad deal.” That, University of Texas, Austin, gerontologist Jacquelin L. Angel, PhD, told GBONews is “a prejudice that is unfounded.” Angel’s research shows, for example, “Two-thirds of Mexican Americans over 80 are unable to cover expenses over a month.” For the future, she added, slightly over half of white workers, and just under half of black workers participate in a retirement plan, as do only one in three Hispanics currently in the workforce.”
Taylor also noted in her Times article, “The thing is, age does predict all sorts of political preferences and voting behavior, more than it did even a decade ago, from attitudes toward redistribution to environmental policies to trans rights.” Actually, leading political scientists in gerontology have shown exactly the opposite. The late Robert Binstock, PhD, of Case Western Reserve University, spent decades debunking the largely rightist claim that seniors constitute a unified voting bloc on issues.
He showed that the principal determinant of voting behavior, he found across age cohorts, was who was U.S. president when people came of politically aware age. Binstock did note some variation in that pattern in more recent years, but that had nothing to do with an old-age privilege in American capitalism. What’s more, voter-suppression efforts in some states have blocked the ballots of many seniors, along with lower-income and ethnic citizens.
Although Taylor said she has nothing more to say, readers might contrast her logic with Applewhite’s view of this topic. See her piece in The Guardian published last December. More recently the Boston Globe published Margaret Morganroth Gullette’s article, “Contrived Generational Wars Disguise the Failure of the American Dream.”
While Astra Taylor has been a darling of the left in recent years, she launched this article into a far shallower orbit than astrophysicists might have predicted from her intellectual reputation. Whether her refusal to debate Applewhite was more a matter of hubris or cowardice, though, remains secondary to the dismaying decision to publish it by the editors of the New York Times “Sunday Review,” who so eagerly enlarged Taylor’s stunningly ageist article. Why did the paper abandon their usually prudent editorial judgment? Well, the news media do love the provocateur, and even in the steely glass tower of the Times, provocation does drive readership.
An earlier and shorter version of this article appeared on the blog, Yo, Is This Ageist?
*** NYT Readers Answer Astra: A silver-haired lining of Astra Taylor’s piece is that the preponderance of NYT readers evidently do get it. A spot reading of the comments shows an overwhelmingly negative reaction to the article. The paper shows that it received 1967 comments before it closed the response door, of which it posted only about 20 “Times Picks,” letters selections the paper has customarily claimed reflect the shadings of audience response on an issue.
Besides the quantitative sample straw vote that the NYT’s letters represent, though, the remarks that do appear provide a significant qualitative set of observations and quotes about the political experiences of many of the newspaper’s readers, suggesting that they are not as uniformly well-to-do as one might surmise.
For example, Matt, from DC after stating that at age 57 he shares many of Taylor’s stated policy priorities, was only of the commentators to advise young people, “This is less about age and more about battling power structures that are the inhibitors of reform. We know you got screwed by a lot of things beyond your control. Let’s work together to fix some of it.”
Another with the handle osavus of Browerville, offered, “The Social Security Administration estimates that 44% of single seniors (mostly women) rely on Social Security for 90% or more of their income. I doubt that there is much influence coming from that sector. Perhaps it’s time to rethink your whole article.” The entry adds this James Baldwin quotation: “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
Wrote CZ of Michigan, “Here’s the deal: stop blaming the baby boomers for your economic situation. I am 62 years old. I want more than anything to retire from a job that is truly a younger person’s career (due to heavy deadlines and late nights), but I can’t because of medical insurance and the fact that I haven’t gotten a cushy pension after 40 years of work . . . “
Sohy, from Georgia: “The idea that boomers had it so great when we were young is nonsense…”
Chantal: “Older people are represented across the spectrum of ideas, from left to right. They are not the problem. You know what produces unrepresentative leadership? The Electoral College and Republican gerrymandering. Replacing 70-year olds with 40-year olds will not change that.”
Kevin, USA: “As a 23 year old I have to ask: What was the point of this article? People my age need to get out and vote plain and simple. It’s not the old people keeping my friends from voting. It’s their laziness.”–
4. THE STORYBOARD
*** “The Coming Long-Term Care Crisis,” by Meagan Day, Jacobin, Oct. 23, 2019: “Americans are aging, and millions will be unable to afford long-term care. The only way to avert social catastrophe is to implement a Medicare-for-All system with comprehensive long-term care benefits.” She writes, “Two Medicare for All bills, one introduced in the Senate by Bernie Sanders and another introduced in the House of Representatives by Pramila Jayapal, include generous long-term care benefits. If we create a national single-payer program that comprehensively covers long-term care, we will be prepared to handle the aging of our nation’s population. If we don’t, social chaos awaits . . . . Jayapal’s bill stipulates that the program will also cover the cost of residence in a skilled nursing facility, while Sanders’s leaves institutional care costs up to Medicaid. In this regard, Jayapal’s bill is stronger. But in both instances, a picture emerges of a socialinsurance policy — one we all pay into according to our ability, and qualify to benefit from according to our need.
“At present, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the majority of long-term care is supplied in private homes by informal caregivers, mainly family members who donate their time and energy to look after loved ones. The majority of these unpaid caregivers are women; adult daughters provide twice as much care for aging parents as sons do. In both Sanders and Jayapal’s visions, Medicare for All would formalize those services, rendering them universally reliable and adequately compensating providers.”
*** “Employers Still Behind in Tackling Ageism,” by Meghan McCarty Carino, Marketplace (Oct. 29, 2019): “Longer life expectancy and the difficulty of saving enough for retirement mean more Americans are working later in life. Workers over 65 are the fastest growing part of the labor force, making the problem of ageism in the workplace more visible than ever. It’s been rearing its head in the contentious presidential campaign. Among the most diverse pool of Democratic candidates ever, the issue of age has been front and center . . . . Writer Ashton Applewhite hears a lot of stories like that. Several years ago she started a blog called “Yo! Is This Ageist?” The title is a nod to a similarly named podcast on racism.”
The story notes, “A 2018 AARP survey showed two-thirds of workers over 45 had witnessed or experienced ageism in their workplace, like older workers being passed over for promotions, laid off or not hired.”
*** “For These Seniors, Entrepreneurial Ambition is Far From Retiring,” by Paul Solman, PBS News Hour (Oct. 31, 2019): “Entrepreneurs are often imagined as twenty-something recent college dropouts. But in fact, people ages 45 to 64 start businesses at higher rates than do their younger peers — and plenty of seniors are in startup mode, too,” says the lead in. Solman continued his excellent ongoing series on the business of aging, and the stumbling blocks of ageism, when he checked out a program at New York City’s Senior Planet that is helping older adults upgrade their technology skills and start or improve businesses.
*** “Number of Uninsured Children in U.S. Increasing, Study Finds,” Philanthropy News Digest (Nov. 4, 2019): “The number of uninsured children nationwide increased by more than four hundred thousand between 2016 and 2018, a report from the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute finds.” The story reports on findings of the U.S. Census Bureau’s annual American Community Survey, the report, The Number of Uninsured Children Is On the Rise (19 pages, PDF), showing 4 million kids lack coverage, “erasing much of the coverage gains made following implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The report also found that loss of coverage is most pronounced among white and Latino children . . . , children under the age of six, and children in low- and moderate-income families.” Also, “States that have not expanded Medicaid under the ACA have seen increases in their rate of uninsured children three times as large as states that have, with children in non-expansion states almost twice as likely to be uninsured as those in states that have.”
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