GBO NEWS: Ukrainian Elders Running, Standing Defiant; NY Times Hit on “Nihilistic” and “Hedonistic” Boomers; New Take on Palliative Care; At 98 Herbert Gold and Sons Exchange Poems on Exits and Entrances; & MORE
GENERATIONS BEAT ONLINE NEWS
E-News of the Journalists Network on Generations – Our 29th Year.
March 18, 2022 — Volume 29, Number 3
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In This Issue: Hey, Vlad Putin, you’ll turn 70 this Fall. Do you know where your legacy is?
1. OLD BUT TOUGH IN UKRAINE: *** UK’s HelpAge International’s Reporting and Survey; *** Death, Survival and Running for Peace from NBC, Guardian, Reuters, Agence France-Presse/VOAnews.
2. IN POD WE TRUST: *** “Lessons From COVID: Living With and Caring for Those Seriously Ill—and Those Left Behind,” our Journalists in Aging Fellows Program latest Zoom recording; *** Next Avenue on Palliative Care.
3. NY TIMES’ BOOMER “NIHILISM” SPREAD FALSE ON SOCIAL SECURITY
4. GOINGS & COMINGS: *** Veteran Radio Producer and Author Connie Goldman, 91, Dies; *** Novelist-Journalist Herbert Gold Turns 98 Publishing Poetry with Sons; *** Jane Brody’s “Farewell, Readers.”
5. GEN BEATLES NEWS: *** Polk Award to Stat on Biogen’s FDA dealing on Alzheimer’s drug; *** Anti-Ageism Blogger Ashton Applewhite Makes “World’s Most Inspiring Women” List; ***John Ferrannini departs LGBTQ-focused Bay Area Reporter for San Francisco’s KRON4 TV; *** E-book!” Released for Rodney A. Brooks’ Fixing the Racial Wealth Gap.
1. OLD BUT TOUGH IN UKRAINE
*** Although news reports emphasize the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on those most vulnerable, the very young and old, media coverage about the plight of elders has been spotty. Regarding older Ukrainians, an important source has been the UK-based HelpAge International’s website, “Supporting older people in the Ukraine crisis.”
The March 15 posting, “Refugees on the Moldova-Ukraine border,” includes firsthand observations by Samuel Wood, Head of Humanitarian at HelpAge, who visited the border. He remarked, “We saw a fairly large number of older people arriving, as well as some people with disabilities who were being assisted in their journey. But the number is disproportionately low, compared to the population of Ukraine. This may reflect that many have found it harder to flee their homes and are now stuck in the line of conflict. . . Despite all the hardships, the older women we spoke to were smiling and joking. It is amazing to see people be so resilient and able to make jokes in such a situation.”
In its post, “Older people on the edge of survival in eastern Ukraine,” (March 3, 2022), HelpAge International reported, “Older people living in sub-zero conditions and heavily shelled areas of Eastern Ukraine desperately need food, clean drinking water and medication, according to a survey released today.”
The piece summarizes the survey taken by HelpAge International staff and volunteers. The organization’s “network of volunteers carried out the survey of more than 1,500 over-60s as they continued to make phone calls to older people to provide emotional support as shelling targeted the region.” Key findings:
- Almost all older people in the region (99%) do not want to be evacuated from their homes;
- Nine out of 10 (91%) need help to get food because they have mobility issues and many live alone;
- Active shelling and airstrikes are disrupting water supplies, leaving 79% of older people reporting insufficient access to clean drinking water;
- More than one third (34%) are in urgent need of medication for chronic diseases like diabetes, blood pressure and pain relief;
- 91% report they are experiencing electricity cuts, with no way to warm their homes in freezing conditions. Many older people need thermal blankets;
- Three quarters (75%) need hygiene items like toothpaste, soap, adult diapers and toilet paper, all vital to help prevent infection.
Following are a few media stories on the consequences of Vladimir Putin’s explosive case of elder abuse:
* “Elderly Ukrainian Refugee Dies On Her Journey Out Of War Zone,” NBC News (March 14, 2022).
* “‘We’re showing we’re alive’: the older Ukrainians running daily as war rages,” by Diyora Shadijanova, The Guardian (March 10, 2022): “As the world watched the war in Ukraine intensify, Nikolai Plyuyko did something extraordinary. He went for an 11-kilometer run through the streets of Kyiv. . . . Plyuyko has participated in 48 marathons . . . Today, Plyuyko is 75 years old and lives alone in . . . “a sleepy part of Kyiv.” Since war broke out, Plyuyko has maintained his schedule of daily outdoor runs, running around 150km in the past two weeks. He laughs when I ask him if he’s scared of running outside. ‘During my run, I often hear more than 10 explosions which are within a 20km distance,’ he says stoically. ‘What’s the point of worrying? I’ve lived most of my life anyway.’”
“Volodimir Shymko, a 67-year-old who has also been running to fill the city’s empty streets.” He said, “I can’t go to fight at my age, there is an army for that, but it’s important for people to show that we are alive and strong.”
* “War in Ukraine: Vulnerable and elderly flee Irpin near Kyiv as Russians advance,” Sky News (March. 8, 2022): “The vulnerable, elderly and young flee the besieged town of Irpin, on the north-western outskirts of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv – ahead of the Russian advance.”
* “Ukraine war: The elderly who refuse to leave their homes as over a million people flee following Russia’s invasion,” by Olive Enokido-Lineham, Reuters (March 7, 2022): “A Ukrainian elderly people’s charity has spoken to Sky News about why its volunteers – aged 60 and above – are choosing to stay in the country . . . Some of the country’s elderly citizens are refusing to leave in order to provide food and aid to help others survive.”
“Despite constant shelling and the advance of Russian troops, volunteers of the Ukrainian charity, Age Concern Ukraine, continues to operate through its nine branches across the country. . . The charity says it has over 1,500 volunteers all aged 60 and over who deliver food, medical supplies and run a daily phone service for elderly people in Ukraine. As of last year, over 10 million people in the country were aged 60 years and older, roughly a quarter of the country’s population.”
*** “Elderly, Disabled Unable to Flee Ukraine War, Charities Say,” Agence France-Presse/VOAnews.com (March 9, 2022): “LONDON — Millions of elderly and disabled Ukrainians are ‘at high risk’ because they are unable to flee the fighting, the United Kingdom Disasters Emergency Committee [DEC] alliance of leading aid charities warned Thursday. . .
“There are more than 7 million people age 60 or older in Ukraine and 2.7 million people with disabilities, according to the European Disability Forum. ‘Many cannot escape from affected areas nor seek shelter from bombings due to lack of mobility. They are also at risk of violence and neglect,’ said the DEC, which represents the British Red Cross and 14 other groups. Age International director Chris Roles said that many of the elderly and disabled ‘may be housebound or unable to walk without support.’”
2. IN POD WE TRUST
*** “Lessons From COVID: Living With and Caring for Those Seriously Ill—and Those Left Behind,” is our latest Zoom panel recording for the Journalists in Aging Fellows Program, cosponsored by GBONews publisher, the Journalists Network on Generations, and The Gerontological Society of America. To some this may sound like a niche issue, but as gen-beat reporters know well, this discussion is essential in its data and its personal stories toward grasping the systematic flaws in the US health and social care system for older and ability-challenged people — of any age.
This dynamic, and sometimes moving session began with MacArthur “Genius” Diane E. Meier, MD, Founder, Director Emeritus and Strategic Advisor, Center to Advance Palliative Care at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. VJ Periyakoil, MD, Founding Director, Stanford Palliative Care Education and Training Program and Chair of the Ethnogeriatrics Committee, American Geriatrics Society, examined key ethnic/racial disparities reporters should be aware of. And Toni P. Miles, MD, PhD, a recently retired professor of Epidemiology at University of Georgia, College of Public Health, urged reporters to consider the needs of bereaved caregivers in their coverage.
Moderating he panel was George Polk Award-winning journalist JoAnn Mar, a longtime broadcaster, KALW Public Radio, San Francisco, and producer, and a former Journalists in Aging Fellow.
Panelists explored such critical questions as: What must health care profession do to help patients and their caregivers live as well as possible during serious illness? How can all clinicians (not only palliative care specialists) improve pain and symptom management skills, and provide meaningful support to family caregivers, while sharpening their communication skills among clinicians, patient and family members? How can our system improve care, especially for those of color or with low-incomes? And what’s being learned from the coronavirus years about needed changes in practice and policy for better palliative care?
Meier, author of Palliative Care: Transforming the Care of Serious Illness (2010, Jossey), stated that “the power of journalism” is to engender a dialogue “between those of us taking care of patients and those of you writing about it to reach the public” that reflects the up-and-down nature of serious illness art any age, not only in the case of limited hospice care for those dying. “It’s not either or, but both/and: disease, treatment and palliative care” should define appropriate care and not be separated.”
She also showed a United States map revealing that across states, “Access is inequitable and highly variable and has nothing to do with patient needs.”
Meier stated, “What the media tends to cover is the more frightening end-of-life manifestations of palliative care. But that misleads the public and doesn’t lead the public to demand the care that they should have.”
She noted, for instance, that a 24-year-old with acute leukemia usually has a 75% chance of cure with a bone-marrow transplant. That person “should be getting palliative care, because it’s no fun going through a bone-marrow transplant, no fun at all. . . People who are going to live decades or more with a serious illness . . . should have palliative care during that course of illness. And people whose illness is progressing should also have palliative care. But it’s only that latter group that’s been covered in the media. And I think that’s a real disservice to the public.”
Miles, author of Health Care Reform and Disparities: History, Hype, and Hope (2012, ABC-Clio), shared findings from her research project, Loss is a Social Determinant of Health. She designed the study to provide to aid in assessing the risks to surviving friends, family and community associated with the deaths within their social network. They measured the effects in terms of excessive rates of chronic disease, excess healthcare utilization, and premature deaths among survivors as young as 18 years.
She recounted attending a leadership conference where a young man with no arms or legs, but who was “young, well dressed, well-nourished and doing well. And he was held up as an exemplar of resilience and survivability. I leaned over to the nurse in front of me and said, ‘Who wipes his behind when he takes a poop?’ OK! . . . No one walks this walk by themselves.”
Periyakoil, who’s has contributed essays to the New York Times and other media, presented disturbing research showing that not only did COVID-19 reduce overall life-expectancy in the US by 1.8 years between 2019 and 2020, to age 77, but that Hispanic, Black and Native Americans/Alaska Natives were twice as like to die as white Americans. Her stats included some as recent as March 2022.
“I’d like to propose almost a moon-shot challenge. For all of the journalists here and hopefully others who are going to listen to this. . . Right now palliative care is almost radioactive. The minute – the doctor will typically say, ‘Well, the treatment is not working. I’ll call my colleagues in palliative care.’ And the patient [thinks], ‘OK, I’m dying.’ The phrase is almost a euphemism for ‘death is happening.’”
Periyakoil stressed, “The moon-shot challenge is: How can we dissociate palliative care from death. . . . There’s so much research that when you feel better, you are up and about more. And when you are more functional, you will live longer. And that’s what palliative care is about.”
The session recording runs 88 minutes, but well worth the time for those writing about issues of chronic or terminal illness. We’re including speakers’ contact information in this article for those wishing to follow up directly. Speaker contacts: Diane Meier, MD, Diane.Meier@mssm.edu (cc to her assistant, Lisa Morgan, lisa.morgan@mssm.edu); VJ Periyakoil, MD, periyakoil@stanford.edu; and Toni P. Miles, MD, PhD, ugamiles@gmail.com.
*** “Palliative Care is Not Just for the Dying,” by Nora Macaluso, Next Avenue (Feb. 21, 2022), offers another good source: “The COVID pandemic has shown how palliative care can also be valuable for managing the pain and stress of illness.”
3. NY TIMES’ BOOMER “NIHILISM” FEATURE FALSE ON SOCIAL SECURITY
GBO’s editor was about to spade into the ageist and embarrassingly fact-free cover story in the New York Times’March 6 “Sunday Review” section, when I was relieved to see that a seasoned health economics professor took the words right out of my blog. Neither the NYT’s writer, a member of its Editorial Board, nor her editors have any excuse for exploiting the Boomer card or falsely misrepresenting Social Security as a drain on the federal budget. Not only is that prohibited by law, but the facts are so widely available that any honest Times writer would have tripped over them in their own newsroom, via multiple fine writers and contributors to the paper, such as “New Old Age” columnist Paula Span and several contributors to the business section’s “Retiring” column.
Kansas University Medical School economist Dave Kingsley, PhD excoriated the huge “Sunday Review” spread in his factually wonky policy critique, “What Does Ageism in the Media Look Like? Michelle Cottle’s Article re ‘The Villages’ in the New York Times Today – That’s What It Looks Like.”
Cottle’s piece ran with headlines stating, “The Disney for Boomers Puts Hedonism on Full Display” and elsewhere in the layout, “The Nihilism of The Golden Years.” The article centers on the Trumpy white snowbird culture of Florida’s vast retirement community, The Villages. Photos by Damon Wintercover the entire front page of the “Sunday Review” plus two-thirds of the double-truck center fold of the section. His many images display views of well-manicured golf courses, golf carts, dancing to “Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville,” and MAGA demonstrations.
Kingsley wrote, “Cottle, a member of the New York Times Editorial Board, has demonstrated the type of dangerous stereotypes regarding so-called ‘Baby Boomers’ that recur frequently in mainstream media.” Not only does she load her article with “many ugly stereotypes and ill-informed generalizations,” Kingsley notes, but the story leads to the primary telltale falsehood driving media ageism, that is evident to reporters who follow the money.
Villagers, Cottle asserts, and “many with similar values” have eyed big government with skepticism, “even as the aging populace commands an increasing larger chunk of the federal budget for programs such as Social Security and Medicare.”
Kinglsley explains what GBONews has variously repeated for decades: “Not one bit of Social Security is ‘on budget.’ Approximately two-thirds of all Medicare expenditures are paid into the program through payroll taxes, premiums, and other out of pocket expenses. Traditional Medicare and Social Security have administrative costs equal to 1.5% and .9% of revenue respectively.”
He stated, “So Ms. Cottle is ill-informed and misinforming her readers. These two programs are a model of government run retirement and medical programs. If that doesn’t remain as such, it won’t be the fault of the beneficiaries.” In addition, any argument about Medicare’s rising costs must include that it comes within the most expensive health system in the world.
Under the heading, “Scapegoating the Elderly,” Kingsley writes, “Isms, whether they be racism, sexism, ageism, or any other type of ism such as those against sexual orientation, and religion, are dehumanizing and damaging to the victims of stereotyping . . . An aging population or the elderly in general are not causing an increase in the cost of government. That is well accepted in the literature. I have debunked that myth in my own research.”
He concludes, “Turning a group of people born in an 18 year span of time into a ‘thing’ with negative characteristics is a form of human thinking that has led to more human tragedy and suffering than any other mental disposition characteristic of homo sapiens. It is one reason that we can institutionalize elderly people in subhuman nursing homes and mistreat them. They are seen as a ‘silver tsunami,’ a disaster, a problem. What else are we going to do with them?”
** MEANWHILE — Nancy J. Altman, president of the advocacy group Social Security Works, reminds in a Common Dreams blog (Feb. 24, 2022): “Today, people who are earning $1 million in 2022 stop contributing to Social Security. Those who are earning $2 million stopped contributing in January.”
She goes on, “Those earning $500,000 will stop contributing this spring. Most people don’t know this, because most of us — 94 percent of workers—contribute all year long. The overwhelming majority of workers see 6.2 percent deducted from every paycheck, all year long. Not the wealthiest. They essentially get a pay raise: A 6.2 percent increase in their take-home once they have earned [the current taxable limit of] $147,000. Millionaire earners just got theirs. That increase in take-home pay adds up to literally billions of dollars.
Altman adds, “During the course of the pandemic, the wealth of billionaires has increased by $2.1 trillion. And the number of billionaires grew from 614 to 745. . . The least that Congress should do is eliminate the cap on Social Security contributions.” Note that President Biden campaigned on lifting the cap to $400,000 a year in earnings.
4. GOINGS & COMINGS
*** Veteran Radio Producer and Author Connie Goldman, 91, Died in early March. A co-founder of GBONews.org publisher, the Journalists Network on Generations, she was among the founding “mothers” of NPR News, as one of the first weekend anchors for All Things Considered – until her mother asked Connie to join her in California. There she learned firsthand about the many challenges of family caregiving. Goldman went on to a distinguished career as audio producer and author on the many sides of aging. She died in Hudson, Wis., near her native Minneapolis, Minn.
Among many tributes gerontology professor and former “Experience Talks” radio co-host/producer Connie Corley wrote of Goldman, “I first met in the 1980s when she was an arts correspondent for NPR National Public radio and brought greater attention about older adults to listeners.” She added that Goldman “has been referred to as the ‘Studs Terkel of aging’ and ‘Mother Wisdom,’” when she received the Creative Longevity and Wisdom Award from Fielding Graduate University in 2009.
Harry “Rick” Moody, editor of Human Values in Aging, and former AARP Director of Academic Affairs, emailed to GBONews, “Connie Goldman was a major force in the world of journalism and aging.”
Warren Wolfe, former reporter on aging for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, commented, “Connie was an important fixture at dozens of national aging conferences, where she was a frequent presenter. Her curiosity and empathy led to deep insights into the journey of aging.”
Wolfe continued, “With an ear for the story and a mellifluous radio voice, Connie made aging come alive as an opportunity both to persevere and to thrive. Connie was gracious with her time and experience, frequently swapping insights with researchers and reporters on the age beat at conferences. When my wife and I were starting a new group for former dementia caregivers in 2016 in Minnesota, Connie gave the keynote address.”
GBO’s editor will miss Goldman’s infectious grin and mischievous questions, such as the one she posed as the title of her 2015 volume, Who Am I: Now That I’m Not Who I Was? (Nordic Press). The book is subtitled, “Conversations with women in mid-life and the years beyond.” Her 2018 title, Wisdom from Those in Care: Conversations, Insights, and Inspiration,” concisely reflects her own sagacious spirit. To hear her voice, click on her 2016 hourlong Public Radio documentary, “The Rewards of Caregiving.”
*** Novelist and Journalist Herbert Gold Turns 98 With Poetry: Poignantly, our friend Herb Gold noted recently that with the death last year of poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, at age 102, and others, “all of my contemporaries are gone; I’m the last one.” However, Gold, who reached 98 on March 9, has kept his pen active at his hilltop perch surveying the rooftops sloping down to San Francisco Bay. Recently, joined by his twin sons, Ari and Ethan Gold, the trio published a series of intergenerational poems in Tablet Magazine titled, “We See Exits and Entrances.” The feature is “A poetry correspondence between the acclaimed novelist Herbert Gold and his sons.”
In introducing the selection of poems, Ari, a Los Angeles-based filmmaker, explains that early in the COVID pandemic lockdown, he became concerned about his dad’s isolation and snail-mailed Herb, whose “computer,” is a 1950s-era Royal manual, a poem in a “24-point font, with a self-addressed stamped envelope requesting a poem in return. . . Soon my father and I were mailing poems back and forth, talking about a future book of poems, and sharing ideas about love, romance, death, and all the other fun stuff. My twin brother, Ethan, soon joined with poems of his own, and since he’s a musician, my father is a novelist, and I’m a filmmaker, we could compete without killing each other.”
Herb writes, in his poem “The Memory Fire Dance”: Does Time March On?/ No, sir or madam , / It limps, it staggers, it falls. / Let’s agree, then / That’s music we make and hear / When we limp, stagger, and fall. / It dances! . . .
Herb Gold is also a co-producer of the new documentary, I Wanted To Be A Man With A Gun, by award-winning filmmaker William Farley. The feature-length film, now being submitted to festivals, immerses viewers in the cruel realities of World War II through the contrasting experiences of three veterans. One is Gold’s late friend, Leo Litwak, who served heroically as a non-combatant medic. (Gold, who appears brief in the film, served as US Army Air Corps translator.)
*** “Farewell, Readers, It’s Been a Remarkable Ride,” by Jane E. Brody, New York Times (Feb. 22, 2022): In her final weekly piece since starting “the very first personal-health column, published in The New York Times on Nov. 10, 1976,” Brody highlighted “the breathtaking evolution in information and advice about several major health topics. . . . The very nature of the scientific process dictates that medicine evolves, and will continue to do so. As occurred with the coronavirus, this evolution will necessarily spawn new health recommendations. Only one thing remains static and continues to jeopardize the health of all who fall for it: quackery.”
Brody, who also wrote a dozen books, including a couple of bestsellers, summarizes changes she’d reported over the years with new developments in the science of diet, as well as on what the public should know about smoking, surgery, sexuality/gender, and mental health among many others.
She emphasized, “More than anything else, what’s kept me writing beyond age 80 is the feedback I’ve received from readers with heartwarming personal accounts of lives transformed through the information and advice my column provided. May my successors glean as much satisfaction as I have from researching and writing about whatever the future holds.”
On reading of Brody’s retirement, Herb Gold recalled to GBONews’ editor that he once appeared with her and other writers at a book reading and signing event. On their way to a luncheon honoring the authors, Brody stopped at one table with presumably startled diners to lecture someone, pointing down at his unhealthy choices. “I think it was the mashed potatoes,” said Gold.
5. GEN BEATLES NEWS
*** A Polk Award went to a reporting trio at Stat for revealing that Biogen had used a back-channel campaign with the Food and Drug Administration to get its Alzheimer’s treatment approved despite objections from the agency’s own scientific advisers. Feb. 22, 2022. The drug’s questionable effectiveness and high cost, initially $56,000 a year and later cut in half under the public spotlight, is credited to a sharp rise this year in out-of-pocket Medicare premiums deducted from retirees’ Social Security payments. Congrats to Stat’s Adam Feuerstein, Matthew Herper and Damian Garde.
*** Anti-Ageism Blogger Ashton Applewhite Listed Among “The World’s Most Inspiring Women”: The “40 Over 40” roster published by the German-based online magazine, Fe:maleOneZero, included Applewhite, author/blogger of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism, on its roster of entrepreneurs, managers, artists, researchers, scientists, speakers, activists and politicians from 26 nations on 6 continents. Among the others are Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director General of the World Trade organization; Kaja Kallas, Prime Minister of Estonia; Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris; and Brandi Carlisle, singer-songwriter.
The listing for the Brooklyn-based Applewhite credits, “In addition to writing and speaking about aging and ageism, Ashton founded the Old School Anti-Ageism Clearinghouse. She writes, ‘Aging is a natural, lifelong, powerful process that unites us all. So how come so many of us unthinkingly assume that depression, diapers, and dementia lie ahead? Because of ageism – the last socially sanctioned prejudice.’ Now, she is a celebrated TED speaker on the topic and a full-time activist on a mission to destroy the stereotypes and discrimination that surround age – inspiring those around her with her passion and wit.”
*** John Ferrannini has departed the LGBTQ-focused paper, Bay Area Reporter, where he was assistant editor, for broadcast TV as a digital producer at San Francisco’s independent KRON4.
*** “It’s official: I have an e-book!” e-shouts Rodney A. Brooks. Fixing the Racial Wealth Gap, published last fall, aims to close the gap in financial-education resources specific to Black Americans. A contributor to National Geographic, Next Avenue and others, and whose personal finance columns run in U.S. News & World Report, Brooks’ new volume is latest of a half-dozen books he’s written on co-authored on individual finances. Among his other titles: Is One Million Dollars Enough: A Guide to Planning for and Living Through a Successful Retirement.
Brooks noted in an email, “I wanted to provide historical context for all of the economic struggles that our community has been facing for generations. Most of all, though, I wanted to give Black Americans the tools to start building wealth early on, an opportunity I didn’t have until later in life.”
With the full title, Fixing the Racial Wealth Gap: How Black People Can Build Generational Wealth. Check his website for more about Brooks’ books and his informative pods and blogs.
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