Monthly Archives: July 2016
GBO NEWS: Aging-Fellowship Deadline Extended; GOP & Dem Platforms; Dr. Bill Disrupts Aging; Summer Books 2; Dem & GOP Platforms on Entitlements; & More
Posted: July 29, 2016 at 1:00 am
GENERATIONS BEAT ONLINE NEWS
E-News of the Journalists Network on Generations
July 29, 2016 — Volume 16, Number 12
Editor’s Note: GBO News, e-news of the Journalists Network on Generation publishes alerts for journalists, producers and authors covering generational issues. Send your news of important stories or books (by you and others), fellowships, awards or pertinent kvetches to GBO News Editor Paul Kleyman. You can subscribe to GBONews.org at no charge simply by sending a request to Paul with your name, address, phone number and editorial affiliation or note that you freelance. You’ll receive the table of contents as e-mail, just click through to the full issue at www.gbonews.org.
In This Issue: You Are “The Real One.”
1. EYES ON THE PRIZE: ***Journalists in Aging Fellowship Application Deadline Extended to Aug. 15.
2. CALENDAR: *** AHCJ Journalism Workshop on Health Information Technology in San Francisco, Oct. 13-14; *** Dr. Bill Thomas’ “Age of Disruption” Tour in15 cities this fall; *** Grand Old Election Platforms on Social Security & Medicare, for Nov. 8.
3. SUMMER BOOK BEAT (Part 2): *** Elder Care Journey: A View from the Front Lines,” by Laura Katz Olson, SUNY Press (June 2016): *** Lies, Incorporated: The World of Post-Truth Politics, by Ari Rabin-Havt (including the push to privatize Social Security); ***The Brooklyn Experience: The Ultimate Guide to Neighborhoods & Noshes, Culture & the Cutting Edge, by sometime age-beat writer Ellen Freudenheim; *** Married at Fourteen: A True [Boomer] Story, by Lucille Lang Day.
4. THE STORYBOARD: *** “Senior Surprise: Getting switched with little warning into Medicare Advantage,” by Susan Jaffe, Kaiser Health News; *** “AP Exclusive: Pricey Drugs Overwhelm Medicare Safeguard,” by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press/Seattle Times; *** “Nursing Home Residents Still Vulnerable to Abuse,” Editorial Board, New York Times; *** Here’s How The GOP Is Concealing Its Plans To Cut Social Security,” by Daniel Marans, Huffington Post; ***Two on Working Longer from the Minneapolis StarTribune: “Will You Really Be Able to Work into Your 70s?” by Chris Farrell (July 26), and “Working Past ‘Retirement Age’ Is Beneficial,” by Katy Read, (July 27); *** Radio Producer Karen Michel’s Profiles of Women Artists Ages 89 and 101, NPR Weekend Edition; *** “Why don’t millennials contribute to IRAs?” by Rodney Brooks, Washington Post; “Smart Financial Moves for Surviving Spouses,” by Jane Clark, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance; *** “Oral Health in California: What About Older Adults?” by Amber Cutler, Justice in Aging Issue Brief.
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Posted: July 22, 2016 at 12:00 pm
GENERATIONS BEAT ONLINE NEWS
E-News of the Journalists Network on Generations
July 22, 2016 — Volume 16, Number 11
Editor’s Note: GBO News, e-news of the Journalists Network on Generation publishes alerts for journalists, producers and authors covering generational issues. Send your news of important stories or books (by you and others), fellowships, awards or pertinent kvetches to GBO News Editor Paul Kleyman. You can subscribe to GBONews.org at no charge simply by sending a request to Paul with your name, address, phone number and editorial affiliation or note that you freelance. You’ll receive the table of contents as e-mail, just click through to the full issue at www.gbonews.org.
In This Issue: Here’s GBONews’ Complete Convention Coverage by Everyone’s Correspondent, Walt Whitman: ” … The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem … Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations.” —Preface to Leaves of Grass.
1.EYES ON THE PRIZE: One Week Left to Journalists in Aging Fellowship Application Deadline—July 29; *** Nursing and Healthcare Workforce Media Fellowship Deadline, Aug. 15.
2. GOOD SOURCES: *** MediCaring Communities: Getting What We Want and Need in Frail Old Age at an Affordable Price, by Joanne Lynn, MD; *** New Justice in Aging Fact Sheets on Medicare-Medicaid LGBT Changes.
3. SUMMER BOOK BEAT: ***The Fate of Gender: Nature, Nurture, and the Human Future, by Frank Browning; *** The Mechanical Horse: How the Bicycle Reshaped American Life, by AARP Magazine Exec. Editor Margaret Guroff; *** Sky Above Clouds: Finding Our Way Through Creativity, Aging, and Illness, by Wendy L. Miller & Gene D. Cohen with Teresa H. Barker
4. THE STORYBOARD: *** “Women more likely than men to face poverty during retirement,” by Adam Allington, Associated Press; *** *** “Employers Are Rethinking Older Worker Stereotypes,” by Chris Farrell, Next Avenue.
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