GBO NEWS: Eisenberg Departs PBS Next Avenue; Black, Latina Women and Dementia; Ageist Elderspeak of Docs, RNs; How Creativity Improves Elder Care; Hidden Meaning of Stories Seniors Repeat; Why Aging Farmworkers Never Retire; What Not to Ask Aged Writers: & MORE
GENERATIONS BEAT ONLINE NEWS
E-News of the Journalists Network on Generations – Our 28th Year.
December 22, 2021 — Volume 28, Number 13
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In This Issue: The Winter Solstice of Our Discontent? Jan. 6 gives new meaning to Epiphany: “But, your honor, I thought I was being patriotic!”
1. GEN BEATLES NEWS: *** PBS Next Avenue’s Rich Eisenberg announces “unretirement”’; *** 2021 Suncoast Regional Emmys for WIPR-TV Puerto Rico Public TV’s Mayra Acevedo on caregivers, and Spectrum Bay News 9, Tampa-St. Petersburg-Sarasota’s Cait McVey on COVID Nursing Home Lockdown.
2. THE STORYBOARD:
*** “What Black and Latina Women Need to Know About Dementia,” by Carly Stern, Washington Post;
*** “A Non-Medical Way to Improve Elder Care — Art, Imagination and Creativity,” by Jaya Padmanabhan, San Francisco Examiner;
*** “The Hidden Meaning Behind the Stories Elders Tell You Over and Over,” by Joanne Laucius, Ottawa Citizen/PostMedia;
*** “Aging Farmworkers Never Retire,” by Eduardo Stanley, Community Alliance (Spanish-English news in Fresno, CA);
*** “Indiana Elder Care Providers Tap Lawmakers for Hiring Help,” by Casey Smith, Associated Press;
*** “’Living and Not Living’: COVID’s Toll on Alzheimer’s Patients and the Spouses Home With Them,” by Maria Sestito, Palm Springs Desert Sun.
3. GOOD SOURCES
*** “How to Deal With Ageism From Doctors and Nurses,” by Judith Graham, PBS Next Avenue, experts advise on improving medical care;
*** “Healthy Aging for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities,” Impact, online publication from University of Minnesota’s Institute on Community Integration on disability and aging;
*** “We Need to Better Prepare for an Aging America,” by Jacqueline L. Angel and Fernando Torres-Gil, The Hill.
4. WORDS FROM THE WISE: *** Author Herbert Gold, 97, tells interviewer (putting down his pen) never ask, “Are you still writing?” *** G.B. Shaw on: “The single biggest problem in communication. . . .”
1. GEN BEATLES NEWS
*** PBS Next Avenue Managing Editor Rich Eisenberg announced, “I will be beginning my unretirement in January, leaving my Next Avenue job after 10 years to embark on my next avenue— freelancing, mentoring, volunteering, family time, travel and who knows what. I plan to stay active in the aging journalists space.”
Eisenberg, part of the inaugural team in 2011 when the news site for the 50+ audience launched, has also been the editor and a writer for the NA “Money & Policy” and “Work & Purpose” channels and a regular writer there. Previously, he was executive editor of Money magazine, and was an editor on financial issues at Yahoo!, Good Housekeepingand USA Today. He is author of two books: The Money Book of Personal Finance and How to Avoid a Midlife Financial Crisis. Among his honors have been a Journalists in Aging Fellowship, and a 2017 Excellence in Personal Finance Award from the National Endowment for Financial Education and Radio Television Digital News Association.
Meanwhile, he emailed GBONews, “Next Avenue is in the process of looking for a new editor of the “Money & Policy” and “Work & Purpose” channels. The person will be able to live and work anywhere; interested applicants can contact Kristi McKinney.”
*** Mayra Acevedo picked up a 2021 Suncoast Regional Emmy Award for her half-hour documentary, “Cuidadores en Tiempos de Emergencia / Caregivers in Times of Emergency,” aired on WIPR-TV Puerto Rico Public Television (April 2021). The program, aired in Spanish and available here with English subtitles, won in the Societal Concerns – Long Form Content category. She produced and hosted the program with support from a Journalists in Aging Fellowship.
Acevedo opened the production (in translation), “Puerto Rico has experienced one emergency after another during the past three years. – Hurricanes, and earthquake, the pandemic and more. . . . One crisis after another has left thousands of older adults and the people who care for them without the resources they need and deserve.”
* Also Winning a Southcoast Emmy was Cait McVey of Spectrum Bay News 9, Tampa-St. Petersburg-Sarasota, Fla., for “Covid-19: Nursing Home Lockdown.” McVey has covered the issue since the start of the pandemic.
* Note to GBONews Readers: Do you know of a notable generations-beat story – by you or others – that others should know about? Perhaps an award winner or major news spread? Drop us a note with a link to the piece, and we may include it in a future issue.
2. THE STORYBOARD
Following are pandemic and other tales of aging in many US cultures from the 2021 Journalists in Aging Fellows Program:
*** “What Black and Latina Women Need to Know About Dementia,” by Carly Stern, Washington Post (Dec. 9, 2021):
The Lede: “Aisha Adkins sat beside her mother as she peered at the clock hanging above the sink of the doctor’s office. As her mother stared, unable to determine the time, Adkins’s stomach tightened. Her mother looked shaken as she realized that she couldn’t complete this task she’d done all her life, Adkins said. The neurologist, a White man, continued to administer a brief series of tests known as a “mini-cog,” according to Adkins. Fifteen minutes later, he diagnosed Adkins’s mother — a Black woman who was 56 — with menopause-related stress and prescribed antidepressants. He did not order further testing.” Wrong! Doc #2 “suspected early-onset Alzheimer’s.” Wrong, again! Finally, Doc #4: “frontotemporal dementia, the leading cause of dementia for people under age 60.” Bingo.
The Nutshell: “Two-thirds of the roughly 6 million Americans with dementia are women, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. Black people are twice as likely to have Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia compared with White people, while Latino people are roughly one-and-a-half times as likely to develop dementia, according to an Alzheimer’s Association special report from 2021. Despite this elevated risk, Black and Latino people are less likely to receive a diagnosis than White people, according to the report — which can limit treatment access, preclude care planning and worsen health outcomes.”
What’s More: “’People of color, but particularly women of color, are in the crosshairs of our nation’s dementia crisis in so many ways . . . ,’ said Jason Resendez, executive director of the UsAgainstAlzheimer’s Center for Brain Health Equity. Such health disparities stem from a confluence of systemic gaps: lack of culturally competent providers, socioeconomic inequities, mistrust of doctors, stigma about symptoms of dementia and education that isn’t tailored to reach high-risk communities. Experts also say that miseducation about dementia is compounded by a lack of widespread awareness and basic literacy surrounding memory health in the United States.”
The Knowns: “The Alzheimer’s Association report found that more than half of non-White Americans surveyed said they believed significant loss of memory or cognitive abilities is a ‘normal part of aging’— which is not scientifically supported — rather than being an indicator of disease. The report also found that more than 1 in 4 Latino people surveyed said they do not believe they will live long enough to develop Alzheimer’s or another dementia.”
*** “A Non-Medical Way to Improve Elder Care — Art, Imagination and Creativity,” by Jaya Padmanabhan, San Francisco Examiner (Dec. 8, 2021): The Dek: “Expressive practices can reduce loneliness and increase wellbeing among seniors.”
The Lede: “If you could look outside your window and see anything you wanted, what would you see?” This was the question posed to a group of journalists by Anne Basting, a MacArthur Fellow and author of Creative Care: A Revolutionary Approach to Dementia and Elder Care (HarperOne, 2020).” Padmanabhan explains that Basting poses the question with seniors to stir their imaginations and begin interactions with them.
The Nutshell: The story continues, “Basting founded . . . TimeSlips, which helps the elderly reduce loneliness through creativity. She coined the phrase ‘creative care’ to represent the two disparate realms of elder care: medical institutions with their heavy emphasis on managing the limits of the aging human body and mind; and the world of arts with its limitless possibilities for producing works of beauty.”
The piece quotes Basting, “Older adults are framed tightly into the realm of health care, and almost always are referred to as “patients. . . . Their roles in life are limited. They are seen as users of services, burdens on the economy and as health care recipients of services.” Padmanabhan adds, “The potential of connecting elderly health care to creativity seems sort of obvious, but the way our care systems are structured to operate, there is actually very little of this in practice.”
The Knowns: “A number of studies have shown the benefits of creative activity for seniors.” In a small study done at Penn State, researchers interviewed nursing home patients with dementia, who’d participated in TimeSlips’ creative programs, and found ‘increased creativity, improved quality of life, positively altered behavior, and involvement in meaningful activity for participants,’ as well as benefits for caregivers and the nursing home community. The story adds, “One of TimeSlips’ ‘meaningful engagement’ programs implemented during the pandemic was Tele-Stories, a project that hires artists to perform storytelling sessions with older adults living alone in half-hour segments for a 12-week period. The starting point to these interactions is often a ‘beautiful question’ like the one posed by Basting at the start of this article.”
*** “The Hidden Meaning Behind the Stories Elders Tell You Over and Over,” by Joanne Laucius, Ottawa Citizen/PostMedia (Dec. 3, 2021): The Dek: “Researchers found that many of the stories came from the time the storyteller was in their teens or 20s, a period in which people make many decisions that affect the rest of their lives.”
The Lede: “It’s true. Older people really do tell the same stories over and over again. . . . People don’t tell the same stories over and over again because they’re losing their minds, but because the stories are important, and you need to know them,” says Queen’s University researcher Mary Ann McColl.
The Nutshell: Laucius writes, “Most people think elders tell stories on repeat because they have forgotten that they already told them. But McColl concluded there’s much more to it than that. Older people are seeking a reconciliation of their own identity. At the same time, messages for the next generation are embedded in the stories. . . . The stories usually fit into a handful of broad categories.
“Seeking a better life, often through immigration, education or skill. The importance of making a good impression or making connections. Sticking together and looking out for one another. Overcoming hardships, such as war, poverty, illness or injury. Tales of fun, mischief and adventure. . . Making sense of the life lived is one of the key tasks of older age. It’s a process that requires the resolution of the ‘personal myth’ — the overarching story we tell about who we are, what matters to us and what’s important in life.”
What’s More: “McColl offered tips for caregivers, such as focusing on the 10 or so repeated stories makes ‘the listening much less overwhelming.’ She suggest writing them down. And ‘notice the teller’s role in the story. Pay attention to the feelings, tension and discomfort and sensory vividness such as sight, smell or sound.’ Most significantly, McColl said, ‘Try to hear what the 10 stories are telling you before it’s too late. They’re a gift and they’re there for you.’”
*** “Aging Farmworkers Never Retire,” by Eduardo Stanley, Community Alliance (Dec. 1, 2021, published by FresnoAlliance.com, California news site also in Spanish:
The Lede: “Arvin is a somnolent rural town in Kern County surrounded by old oil pumps and endless agricultural fields. Its population is 21,000 — 92.7% Latino. It is home to hundreds—even thousands—of farmworkers who year after year harvest those fields, now more water-thirsty than ever as California braces for another tough year due to the drought. Manuel Moises is one of those farmworkers. He is 85 years old but still looks somehow strong.”
The Nutshell: “A vast majority of immigrant farmworkers in the United States are undocumented. By law, they get neither unemployment insurance nor retirement (Social Security) although they pay taxes and work hard. To work in the fields harvesting the food that feeds us can cause serious illnesses. Farmworkers experience common skin diseases, infections of all kinds, heat strokes, pesticide-related illnesses and even mental health issues. In addition, farmworkers face housing problems, oral health issues and injuries.”
A Quote: “’You start feeling pain in your hands…During winter is worse,’ said Felipa, 52. . . ‘Sometimes when you get hurt at work you don’t say anything because they will not hire you the following day, and we need to work.’ To help the family finances, Felipa sells tamales and for Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) she sells flor de cempasúchil. Cempasúchil is a traditional orange-colored flower used during the Dia De Los Muertos ceremonies. The family was recently hit by Covid-19. They quarantined, but Cruz went to the hospital for two months and still feels Covid-related effects, including pain. . . . Yet, the family is still not 100% convinced to get the Covid-19 vaccine. . . . [They] will continue working in the fields as much as they can.””
*** “At 75, I Still Have to Work’: Millions of Americans Can’t Afford to Retire,” by Michael Sainato, The Guardian (Dec. 13, 2021): Dek: “Number of US workers aged 75 and up expected to increase 96.5% over next decade as some say ‘we must work until we die.’”
The Lede: “Maria Rios, 75, has worked as a food prep worker with contractor HMS Host at Phoenix Sky Harbor international airport for 17 years, where she makes $14.50 an hour. Her husband, who is retired, only receives about $400 a month in Social Security benefits. Rios would like to retire also, but she doesn’t have the option even as she is battling ovarian cancer.”
The Quote: “’At 75 years old, I’m forced to still have to work to try to make ends meet. The healthcare the company provides is way too expensive and they’ve yet to provide a more affordable health insurance plan,’ said Rios, who pays about $200 a month for her health insurance. . . . It’s also very important for people to be able to have a pension too, to be able to retire with dignity . . . .’ She even recently went on strike with her co-workers for 10 days, fighting for higher wages, more affordable healthcare and a pension.”
The Nutshell: “Media reports of older workers have often been framed as feel-good stories, such as a viral news report of an 89-year-old pizza delivery man who received a $12,000 tip raised by a customer out of remorse, as he works 30 hours a week because he can’t afford to retire on social security benefits alone. . . . But the grim reality is millions of Americans are working into their senior years because they can’t afford not to have a job.”
The Knowns: “The number of workers who retired during the pandemic was about 2 million more than expected. 50.3% of US adults ages 55 and older said they were out of the labor force due to retirement in the third quarter of 2021, compared to 48.1% in the third quarter of 2019, according to an analysis by the Pew Research Center. Though in recent months, the unretirement rate of US workers has gradually increased toward pre-pandemic levels.”
What’s More: “Nearly 9 million Americans ages 50 and older still have student debt, and the amount owed by this demographic is growing faster than any other age group. In 2015, 40,000 Americans had their Social Security retirement benefits garnished for student loans.”
*** “Indiana Elder Care Providers Tap Lawmakers for Hiring Help,” by Casey Smith, Associated Press (Dec. 2, 2021):
The Lede: “Indiana elder care providers are tapping state legislators to help recruit and retain workers as the coronavirus pandemic continues to exacerbate strains on nursing facility staffs.”
The Nutshell: “The number of Indiana residents living in nursing facilities or receiving in-home care services dipped during the early months of coronavirus pandemic, according to data collected by Indiana’s Family and Social Services Administration.”
What’s More: Zach Cattell, president of the Indiana Health Care Association, which represents the state’s nursing home operators, told Smith, “The labor participation rate is still very low, compared to where we were pre-pandemic, and we need workers, . . . It’s all a very intense competition for a scarce resource, which we’re very worried may not come back for everybody. . . .” Smith also reports, “The Indiana Association for Home and Hospice Care. . . . is asking lawmakers to ease regulatory requirements for training, which . . . could include expanding the duties of unlicensed personnel like licensed practical nurses and registered nurses to boost the number of home health aides across the state.”
But Wait, There’s More: “To increase the number of qualified health care workers in the state, AARP, the state’s largest advocacy group for older adults, is also urging lawmakers to ease limits on nurses. . . . That includes expanding the scope of practice for advanced practice registered nurses who are currently restricted under state law from performing certain duties, such as prescribing medications, unless they work under a doctor’s supervision.”
And: “As part of Indiana’s response to COVID-19, Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb has continued to renew his executive order first issued in March 2020, easing some licensing requirements for health care professionals.”
*** “’Living and Not Living’: COVID’s Toll on Alzheimer’s Patients and the Spouses Home With Them,” by Maria Sestito, Palm Springs Desert Sun (Sept. 13, 2021):
The Lede: “Frances Miller spent her working life as an occupational therapist, seeing the effects an Alzheimer’s diagnosis had on individuals. Still, those eight hours a day couldn’t prepare her for what it was like to have the progressive brain disease hit her own family. ‘Now it’s a 36-hour day and then some,’ Miller said.”
The Nutshell: “Support groups and activities offered by local organizations have been integral to the Millers’ lives. Their days and nights are spent surrounded by their new friends — other couples going through similar things.”
What’s More: “Bob [Miller] is just one of an estimated 6 million people living with Alzheimer’s in the U.S. And, with the onset of pandemic-related restrictions that isolated households last year, many older adults and their families have felt the effects. Alzheimer’s Coachella Valley pivoted to Zoom while Eisenhower’s Memory Care Center— an adult day center — closed its doors completely. . . . [The limited respite care hours] led to faster cognitive declines in some patients and more burnout among caregivers. . . . In 2020, deaths from Alzheimer’s and dementia increased 16% — an additional 42,000 people — compared with averages from the previous five years, according to the Alzheimer’s Association.”
The 2020-21 Journalists in Aging Fellows Program was made possible by the following foundations: The Silver Century Foundation, RRF (formerly the he Retirement Research Foundation; The Commonwealth Fund, The John A. Hartford Foundation and the Archstone Foundation.
Click here for a complete, ongoing list of Journalists in Aging Fellowship headlines with links to the stories.
3. GOOD SOURCES
*** “How to Deal With Ageism From Doctors and Nurses,” by Judith Graham, PBS Next Avenue (Dec. 8, 2021): The Dek: “Advice for you or your parents to get the best medical care.”
The Lede: “The doctor is talking to the daughter who has accompanied you to a medical appointment, not you. A nurse speaks slowly in an unnaturally high-pitched voice, as if you were a child needing instruction. What can you do about manifestations of ageism like these – the devaluing, diminishment or dismissal of older adults based on prejudice against old age?”
The Voice: Graham quotes Doris Morgan, 85, of Shepherdstown, W.Va.: “When her long-time physician retired a while back, Morgan began looking for a replacement. It didn’t go well. ‘One doctor never even got around to listening to my heart and lungs. She was in trouble with me from the beginning,’ Morgan said.”
The Nutshell: Social gerontologist and blogger Jeanette Leardi, 69, and caregiver for her late parents, told Graham, “There’s a way of politely calling people out on ageism. . . . Let’s say I’m an older adult at a medical appointment with my daughter and the doctor is talking to her, not me. You can say ‘Doctor, I’m the patient, and my daughter is here to support me. I want to talk to you; let’s leave some time at the end when you can talk to my daughter.’”
What’s More: The story addresses handling “elderspeak” — overly simple “sweetheart” endearments usually spoken at a high pitch common with children – and Graham interviewed Tracey Gendron, author of the book Ageism Unmasked (Penguin Random House, forthcoming in March 2022). And she interviewed Louise Aronson, MD, author of Pulitzer-Prize Finalist Elderhood (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019), who said, “Probably the best approach is to make ‘I’ statements like ‘I feel that I’m not getting the attention my symptoms warrant’ or ‘I know you’re a good clinician and that’s why I’m here. So, will you work with me on this issue?'”
*** “Healthy Aging for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities,” Impact. This online publication from the University of Minnesota’s Institute on Community Integration (ICI) provides useful overviews and background stories on issues in disability and aging, written by or including interviews with top national experts, not only those at the U of M. This piece, which includes research references reporters may find hand, is by two leading authorities form the University of Illinois, Chicago, Lieke van Heumen and Tamar Heller, who heads school’s the Department of Disability and Human Development.
The Lede: As in the general population, the aging of people with lifelong disabilities has been undeniable over the last few decades. In the 1990s, an initial body of work highlighted the need for research, programs, and policies to support aging of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Much progress has been made. . . . Yet, adults with IDD and their families continue to experience many challenges as they age that can hinder them from living self-determined and healthy lives enriched by the pursuit of social connections and meaningful activities. In this article, we highlight the state of knowledge on promoting healthy aging for adults with IDD and identify future directions in this field.”
* What’s More: The site includes “Aging and Disability” [https://tinyurl.com/mpee8528], a conversation with Paul Irving, chair of the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging, and of Encore.org, and a distinguished scholar-in-residence at the USC’s Davis School of Gerontology. The interview is by Michelle Putnam, who directs the PhD program at Simmons University in Boston.
Putnam: “I just wrote a handbook on aging with disability with a colleague, and one of our conclusions is that we’ve been doing this work for decades and not much has changed, and we’re both really frustrated by that. The bridging work that’s been done by the Administration on Community Living is connecting the two fields, but it’s not really integrating them. We’re not intellectually breaking through the stereotypes.”
Irving: “We seem to be doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. . . If we think about this broadly as a set of investments for a better future, it brings to mind our current debate about what constitutes infrastructure. We seem to agree on the need to invest in updated bridges, tunnels, and airports, but we disagree about the importance of investing in human capital, in realizing the value of people of all types in our heterogeneous population.” (Thanks to Chris Farrell of Marketplace and Minnesota Public Radio for tweeting a tip on ICI.)
*** “We Need to Better Prepare for an Aging America,” by Jacqueline L. Angel and Fernando Torres-Gil, The Hill (Nov. 24, 2021): Never mind that by the week before Christmas major media’s predictable focus was on Sen. Joe Manchin’s stonewalling on the president’s Build Back Better (BBB) bill. Whether or not the legislation eventually passes, or with what provisions, the op-ed summarizes key issues for aging America, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and its variants.
The Nutshell: Angel and Torres-Gil explain, “We are 2.3 million short, according to a 2021 study of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.” The writers commend BBB for proposing to improve home care services under state Medicaid programs, but, the state, with so much variation across states, “ultimately, only federal policy will suffice for the more than 78 million baby boomers now entering old age and the millennial cohort following behind.” (Funny, though, that they didn’t include Gen X.)
What’s More: Other concerns they touch on are burnout so common among family caregivers, and the need to policymakers (and reporters) to revisit adult day care and other respite programs. The article emphasizes, “These issues particularly affect the Latino population. A longitudinal study we did of Mexican American care recipients who are in their 90s shows their caregivers receive less help from non-Latinos in caregiving. Consequently, the impact on caregivers — family, friends, neighbors — is immeasurably harder if we do not expand support and draw on community-based adult day/health centers and all other sources of support.”
The authors point to model programs presenting important solutions, if only decisionmakers would expand on these proven successes. They stress that much more is needed beyond BBB’s Medicaid proposals, “including a universal long-term care policy such as many nations — the European Union, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan — now provide. We can do better here in the United States.”
4. WORDS FROM THE WISE
*** “‘Not Dead Yet’: Nonagenarian S.F. Icon Herbert Gold Talks Writing, Israel, Mortality,” by Liz Harris, Jewish News of Northern California (Sept. 23, 2021): At age 97, Herbert Gold, author of 35 books of fiction and nonfiction, told Harris why he take umbrage at the question, “Are you still writing?”
Gold said: “Writers might despair or suffer writer’s block, usually loudly, but they don’t decide to quit unless they are even more disturbed than they had to be in order to become writers in the first place.”
In Fact: His most recent novel, When a Psychopath Falls in Love (Jorvik Press, 2015) came out when he was 91, and his poetry chapbook, Nearing the Exit, was released by Omerta in 2018. The profile notes, Among his best-known books: the 1966 bestseller Fathers, largely inspired by Gold’s old-school, Russian immigrant father, and Best Nightmare on Earth: A Life in Haiti, a work of nonfiction published in 1991.
Harris adds that although Gold is often described as an “iconic” San Francisco writer and “chronicler of the Beat movement,” and whose friends included Allen Ginsberg, James Baldwin, Anais Nin, William Saroyan and Saul Bellow, he “is lesser known as a journalist who covered the end of Israel’s 1967 Six-Day War and the 1973 Yom Kippur War.” His stories ran in the Wall Street Journal, Playboy, New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, The Atlantic and others.
Gold reflected, “At 97, I’m very preoccupied with the fact that I’m not going to live forever.” And death “is inevitable and I have to accept it. I’m comforted by the fact that a few people, my children, will remember me or will inherit something from me, and I will be immortal in that sense.”
*** George Bernard Shaw: “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”(Thanks to our friend David Riemer for sending this.)
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