GBONEWS: DOGE Shatters Aging, Disability Agency; Connie Chung Headlines On Aging Conference; Trump Hits Older Workers; Malnutrition in Ohio; 5-Minute Alzheimer’s Blood Test; Health Inequality and Dementia
GENERATIONS BEAT ONLINE NEWS
E-News of the Journalists Network on Generations.
April 18, 2025 — Volume 32, Number 7
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In This Issue: Everything, Everywhere, All in Court.
1. THE DOPE ON DOGE:
*** Torres-Gil writes ACL’s Demise Shatters Aging, Disability, Children’s and Family Care;
*** “What Trump’s Policies Mean for Older Workers and Jobseekers,” by Richard Eisenberg, PBS Next Avenue.
2. THE CONFERENCE BEAT: *** Broadcast Pioneer Connie Chung to Headline On Aging 2025 Conference in Orlando, April 21–24, 2025, plus sessions with other generations-beat journalists, authors.
3. GEN BEATLES NEWS: *** Penguin announces 20th-year edition of Peter Sussman’s Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford; Ronnie Lovler’s Newest Story—a granddaughter; *** Herbert P. Weiss Collection launched of journalism and research on aging.
4. THE STORYBOARD:
*** “Malnutrition Plagues Older Adults in Northeast Ohio,” by Jeanette Beebe, The Ohio Newsroom;
*** “‘A Slap on the Wrist’” for assisted-living violators, by Grace Vitaglione, NC Health News;
*** “5-Minute Alzheimer’s Blood Test,” by Donna Alvarado, Next Avenue;
*** “Health and environmental inequality in the S. Bronx increases dementia risks,” by Taayoo Murray, Amsterdam News;
*** “’Grandpas’ got together to help kids. Scientists say it boosts the elders’ health, too,” by Ashley Milne-Tyte, NPR News “Health Shots”;
*** Stricter Caregiver Background Checks; for caregivers” in New Mexico, by Leah Romero, Source New Mexico
1. THE DOPE ON DOGE
*** ACL’s Demise Shatters Aging, Disability, Children’s and Family Care: In one DOGE Poof! the efficient and too low-budget Administration for Community Living (ACL) has been scattered by the Trump White House in a buckshot blast to multiple agencies with little sign of attention to the impact on American households that are juggling wide-ranging family worries.
ACL was created in 2012, to more efficiently consolidate the Administrations on Aging (AoA) and Administration on Disability (AoD) with a cluster of related agencies. The aim was greater effectiveness in serving older and ability-challenged Americans of all ages to help them remain as independent as possible.
According to former AoA head, Fernando Torres-Gil, PhD, “ACL may be small and buried within the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) empire, but it touches the lives of all Americans in the most personal manner. It is charged with coordinating and providing services to older adults, people with disabilities, and those seeking caregiving and support in their homes and communities.”
He should know. Following his tenure as the first U.S. Assistant Secretary of Aging (1993-1997), Torres-Gil, a polio survivor, served as vice chair of the National Council on Disability in the Obama Administration, helped to create ACL, working with advocates in aging and disability, as well as Democratic and Republican legislators and the executive branch to establish the coordinated agency.
In an email to GBONews.org, Torres-Gil, who recently contributed a commentary to GBONews, explained, “ACL programs provide home delivered meals and supportive services through its aging network, grants for innovative and best practices in serving younger people with chronic, physical, visual, hearing, and other limitations. It was designed to promote an infrastructure that someday may give us a national approach to ensuring that all people can remain in their home and avoid nursing home placement when they can no longer care for themselves.”
Despite its meager federal funding, ACL entities accomplishes so much for so many Americans by working through state and local agencies and with more than 2,500 community organizations, often with local public and private support.
A professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, Torres-Gil, who directs UCLA’s Center for Policy Research on Aging, lamented, “Alas, the ACL is now history, just one more federal agency facing its demise. And what of those it sought to represent, the millions of us who will age and face a disability and fervently wish to stay in our homes and communities and have support for caregivers who enable independence and dignity. Who at the national level represents their interests?”
In his many travels and speaking engagements across the nation, Torres-Gil said that in so-called “red states” he has met many “good people, who had legitimate concerns.” Often they were upset at liberal Democratic policies, notably about their presumed open-immigration/refugees policies, without realizing, for example, that “closing the doors” to immigrants would intensify the shortage of workers, who provide a large proportion of caregiving and long-term care.
Overall, Torres-Gill said, “They sincerely felt that they were overtaxed with little to show from their government.” He added, “Despite these grievances, they too were facing the specter of aging, chronic conditions, early forced retirement, financial vulnerabilities and fearful about growing old and disabled and being forced into a warehouse nursing home.”
He reflected, “In short, perhaps we failed to show them that the ACL was designed especially to meet these concerns and needs.”
“Perhaps,” Torres-Gil offered, “here are the seeds of a new social movement; one that transcend ideology, politics, divisiveness, and grievances; one that builds on the realities that we are all in this together, we will all age and face disabilities. Maybe, from the ground up, we can find ways to inform and explain to all Trump/MAGA voters and all Americans that the ACL represented a bridge that we may rebuild one day between our differences.”
*** “What Trump’s Policies Mean for Older Workers and Jobseekers,” by Richard Eisenberg, PBS Next Avenue(April 4, 2025): The Dek: “Experts’ insights about layoffs, DEI and age discrimination by employers.” (Disclosure—GBONews’ editor is quoted in this piece.)
The Lede: “Now that President Trump is well into the first 100 days of his second term and his policies have begun taking effect, it’s a good time to assess what his presidency could mean for boomer and Gen X workers and job seekers. Workplace and elder experts have some serious concerns. ‘President Trump himself is an older worker. I do hope there will be some recognition as his administration is thinking about all the policies that impact older workers,’ said Victoria Lipnic, the acting chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) during Trump’s first term.’”
The Stats: “Roughly 25% of the U.S. workforce is over 55 and four in 10 American workers expect to work past 65, according to a Gallup Poll. Economists are growing increasingly pessimistic about the U.S economic outlook this year because of President Trump’s tariffs, which could raise inflation, and the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) federal job cuts.”
And: “Currently, 23% of U.S. job seekers ages 55 and older have been out of work for at least six months, according to the AARP Employment Data Digest. Nearly half of jobseekers aged 50 and older have been on the prowl at least a year, according to a CWI Labs report in late 2024.”
The Upshot: “The federal government has cut over 35,000 jobs, including a quarter of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services workforce; 28% of federal workers are 55 or older. While many of these are “probationary employees” who’ve held their job less than a year, that doesn’t mean they’re necessarily young. . . The tighter job market could lead to more age discrimination by employers who won’t hire or keep older workers as they seek to restrain the cost of salaries and benefits.”
2. THE CONFERENCE BEAT
*** The American Society on Aging’s (ASA) On Aging 2025 Conference, at the Hyatt Regency Orlando, FL, April 21–24, 2025, will include sessions featuring several journalists, beginning with a conference opening “chat” on April 22, featuring new AARP CEO Myechia Minter-Jordan, MD, MBA, and pioneering broadcast journalist Connie Chung, author most recently of Connie: A Memoir (Grand Central Publishing, 2024).
Reporters not planning to be in Orlando next week can still benefit by scanning over the conference’s online schedule for session titles and expert speaker’s across a wide range of story topics. Among the presenters this year will be the following media folks:
* “Caregiving in the News: What We’ve Learned,” will present Journalists in Aging Fellow Monica Williams, executive director and editor of the New York & Michigan Solutions Journalism Collaborative, which since 2020, has published more than 175 articles caregiving of older adults, in such outlets as the Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, Buffalo News, PBS, Yahoo, the Democrat & Chronicle (Rochester, NY) and Urban Aging News.
She will discuss the data center they’ve developed of hundreds of academic articles to inform their coverage. The Collaborative has also established a caregivers’ advisory board, and has written a language guide “to help their reporters and other journalists to avoid ageism,” she says.
* “Making Unretirement Work in America” will feature MarketWatch columnist and PBS Next Avenue contributor, Rich Eisenberg; Yahoo Finance Senior Columnist and author, Kerry Hannon; the anti-ageism nonprofit Changing the Narrative’s Janine Vanderburg; and TIAA Institute’s Surya Kolluri.
Says the session’s blurb on the conference website, “Working part-time in retirement while using time to volunteer, mentor, explore, spend time with friends and family and relax—is becoming the new definition of retirement. This panel will discuss what employers, financial advisors, retirement coaches and pre-retirees are doing to help Americans in their 50s, 60s and 70s unretire and what they all could and should be doing to make unretirement more possible and fulfilling for America’s diverse older workers.”
* “Aging Sideways: Four Surprising Ways to Approach Getting Older,” will be a workshop with social gerontologist, blogger and Aging Sideways author Jeanette Leardi. The session, she writes, will examine “four unexpected, practical ways to approach aging from new ‘sideways’ angles that they can share with others to shake up entrenched negative beliefs [about] aging.” She’ll also hold a lunchtime signing in the exhibition hall bookstore, of her 2024 volume, Aging Sideways: Changing Our Perspectives on Getting Older.
* In “Next Avenue Presents Advocates for Aging 2025,” Julie Pfitzinger, managing editor of the PBS-affiliated media site, will “spotlighting eight dynamic individuals as our Advocates for Aging, people who continue to break new ground on the challenges and opportunities facing people older than age 50.”
* Press Attendance: their website states, :Working members of the press such as reporters, editors, publishers, electronic media producers, columnists, bloggers and others who reach general or specialized audiences on a regular basis with news or analysis may request a media access pass” by emailing ASA’s Senior Editor Alison Biggar at abiggar@asaging.org.
3. GEN BEATLES NEWS
*** Peter Sussman, author and former San Francisco Chronicle staff editor, posted on Facebook that he’s “thrilled to announce” Random House Penguin will publish a 20th anniversary edition of his book, Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford, first published by Knopf. Decca will come out on Aug. 26 (Woman’s Equality Day, as it happens).
Sussman, 83, wrote that 2025 will mark “the Year of the Mitfords.” Besides his book of letters, a biography of Decca will be published in the fall by Carla Kaplan, as well as a graphic novel about her by Mimi Pond, and “a British TV series on all the famous and infamous Mitford sisters.”
Decca was one of Britain’s the six controversial Mitford sisters, two of whom married cousins of Winston Churchill, and one, Unity, who became a close chum of Adolph Hitler’s. Based in the San Francisco area, Decca was the bestselling author of The American Way of Death (Simon & Schuster, 1963), exposing the U.S. funeral industry. She became so feisty a muckraker that Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling reviewed Sussman’s book in 2006, with her gushing tribute to Decca, as a model for Harry’s wizard companion, Hermione Granger.
Sussman recalled first meeting Decca in his 20s, when she heard about an investigative project he was working on and phoned him “in her high English accent.” She invited him to her nearby home in Oakland to tell her more.
He went on, “As was her habit with all the young people she supported and encouraged, she put me on her party list and we spent many hours at her house over the years.” Over the ensuing half century, Decca would attend Sussman’s wedding to Patricia, later a prominent gerontologist, and Peter would assisted the author with research on various topics, including her 1974 National Book Award winner, Kind and Usual Punishment: The Prison Business.
Following her death in 1996, Decca’s husband, civil rights attorney Robert Treuhaft, “called to see if I was interested in editing a book of her letters . . . It was obvious that they were a real treasure, one of the finest accumulations of letters sent in the great daily English letter-writing tradition.”
*** New Gen Beatle Lowers Average Age of Floridians: Ronnie Lovler, announced the birth of granddaughter, Madelyn, at 6 lb. 2 ounces, on March 31, to her son, Tiffen, and daughter-in-law, Allegra. A past Journalists in Aging Fellow, Lovler (Gainesville Sun, Main Street Daily News) reported, “She is excelling at everything a newborn is expected to do — sleep, nurse and poop! I can kvell, which most of those know means I am bursting with pride and happy beyond words.” Here’s to a big mazel tov for a lovely Lovler Passover holiday.
*** Veteran Age-Beat Veteran, Herb Weiss, has become collectable, that is by journalists and researchers, but not for the Antiques Road Show. The Herbert P. Weiss Collection of journalism and research on aging has been established at the James P. Adams Library of Rhode Island College. His papers, including, so far, 1,111 articles, reports, newspaper stories and professional newsletters on aging, health care, and medical issues (1980-2025), are now available onsite or digitized online for free public access.
Although Weiss has published a weekly column for many years in Rhode Island-area news outlets (currently, RI News Today), when GBONews’ editor first met him in 1989, he was reporting for a Washington, DC-based newsletter covering health care and social services policy legislation and regulatory issues, as an accredited U.S. House Gallery Reporter. Holding a master’s degree in aging, he’s served on the Rhode Island Advisory Commission on Aging under five governors.
All of that’s to say, Weiss’s writings provide a rare and authoritative archive chronicling decades of information about aging and retirement issues and policy debates in the United States.
The establishment of Weiss’ archive, also comes with the release of the third book in his self-published Taking Chargeseries, which collect his articles on a wide range of generational topics. The latest is Taking Charge: Vol. 3 – Even More Stories on Aging Boldly. (Reporters can request review copies from him at hweissri@aol.com.)
Based in Pawtucket, the popular author/columnist has also been honored by local restaurants, which have named a hamburger, a lobster salad (I’ve very much enjoyed it on a visit), and most recently, the Herb Weiss Breakfast Sandwich.
4. THE STORYBOARD
*** “Malnutrition Plagues Older Adults in Northeast Ohio,” by Jeanette Beebe, The Ohio Newsroom (April 17, 2025): The Lede: “Constance Packard lives in a modest, tidy home in Massillon, Ohio. At 94, she’s tired of cooking. . . So for a little over a year now, she’s received meals from Vantage Aging’s Meals on Wheels program five days a week. The day’s delivery — sloppy joes, cheesy potatoes, vegetables, juice, applesauce and milk — is sitting on the counter. ‘I don’t always eat right, and they do have balanced meals. Nutritious. Something I need that I don’t usually do myself,’ Packard said.”
The Problem: “Not eating right is very common among older adults. Malnutrition — which the World Health Organization defines as ‘deficiencies, excesses or imbalances in a person’s intake of energy and/or nutrients — affects millions of people. According to the Ohio Department of Health’s Malnutrition Prevention Commission, 1 out of 2 older adults is malnourished or at risk of becoming malnourished.”
A Solution: “Meals on Wheels of Northeast Ohio provides about 1,000 meals a day in Stark, Wayne, Summit and Portage counties. Last year, they served 315,000 meals to 2,800 clients at their homes and at congregate sites. . . The meals cost 7.75 each and customers pay a variety of ways. 39% of clients have federal funding through the Older Americans Act, 36% have funding through the Medicaid waiver program, about 10% pay privately and the rest pay via a variety of other funding sources.”
A Quote: “‘These Meals on Wheels, it’s more than just a meal. It’s the people that deliver them,’ said Dayton Walters, 88. ‘Thank the good Lord they all talk to me.”
New Research: “Lei Xu, a postdoctoral scholar at Ohio State University, conducted a study of people in southeast Ohio who participated in the [federal] Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. About 1 in 4 were over 65. . . . ‘They don’t have enough nutrition to support their health,’ Xu said. ‘So for policy-makers, they may need to think about how to encourage households to eat more healthy foods, like the fruit and vegetable intake.’”
*** “‘A slap on the wrist’: families and advocates call for increased accountability from assisted living facilities,”by Grace Vitaglione, NC Health News (March 24, 2025): The Dek—”Inconsistent enforcement and the penalty appeal process mean some facilities get away with light punishments for wrongdoing, advocates say.”
The Lede: Kristin Goforth and Lauren Cox, twin sisters aged 49, moved their father into a Piedmont Triad-area assisted living facility on March 13, 2021. Rick Goforth, then 75, was in good health; he was an avid walker who enjoyed being outside. But he was exhibiting signs of dementia — he had wandered off twice — so they decided a facility specializing in memory care would be safest. . . Two months later, Rick was dead.”
NC Stats: “In North Carolina, assisted living facilities are referred to as ‘adult care homes’ or ‘family care homes.’ There are more than 1,200 of these facilities in the state, according to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, and they can range in size from family care homes — licensed to have two to six residents — to larger adult care homes licensed to have more, with some housing more than 100 residents.”
Bill Lamb, a longtime advocate for seniors, sits on the board of directors of the advocacy nonprofit Friends of Residents in Long Term Care. He said the wide variation in penalties and citations across the state shows that enforcement is inconsistent. . . . Some facilities have clauses in their contracts that require residents or family members to agree to settling disputes through arbitration rather than in court. When a consumer signs admission papers for themselves or a loved one into a facility home, these clauses are often tucked among the dozens of pages of legalese in the contract. State lawmakers have also enacted a cap on noneconomic damages, such as compensation for pain and suffering, for medical malpractice in North Carolina. Those are usually the primary type of damages in a case against an assisted living facility, Todd said.”
*** “A 5-Minute Blood Test Can Answer a Haunting Question,” by Donna Alvarado, Next Avenue (March 27, 2025):The Lede: “Simple blood tests have emerged to answer one of the toughest questions haunting many older adults: Am I getting Alzheimer’s disease? Yet many people don’t know about them. The tests are not for the worried well. They are given to people seeing a doctor who has found their memory has declined more than what comes with normal aging. But that group is large: About one-in-nine people over age 65.”
Stats: “The blood tests can deliver an answer to help get a diagnosis much faster than other tests — with 90% accuracy. That beats the 63% accuracy that people get from primary care doctors doing in-office memory tests. Even neurologists have only 73% accuracy without advanced tests. And the blood tests are done far faster than any other diagnostic tests. The blood test, which became available to doctors in August 2024, could revolutionize the way Alzheimer’s is diagnosed, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. Until now, the only way to get a reliable answer was to undergo far more expensive and uncomfortable procedures like brain scans or spinal fluid taps.”
The Costs: The blood test, writes Alvarado, a 2024-25 Journalists in Aging Fellow, “is not yet covered by most health insurance plans [and] can cost $1,450. For that reason and others, many doctors have yet to use it for patients. An exception is Anton Ostashko, MD, a neurologist in the Silicon Valley suburb of Los Altos, Calif., who specializes in memory disorders and other neurological diseases. ‘It’s not widely implemented yet,’ says Ostashko, who has a concierge medical practice. But he added, ‘I think adoption is increasing.’”
*** “Health and environmental inequality in the S. Bronx increases dementia risks,” by Taayoo Murray, Amsterdam News, Feb. 27, 2025): The Dek: Dementia study highlights Alzheimer’s disease care as a health equity issue.
The Lede: “The South Bronx has been known to suffer from poor air quality and health inequality for decades, but now that scourge can be linked to another public health problem: Alzheimer’s disease.”
The Stats: “According to data from the Coalition of New York State Alzheimer’s Association Chapters, more than 426,500 New Yorkers aged 65 and older have the condition. New York is second among the five states with the highest projected prevalence of Alzheimer’s, at 12.7% — and at 16.6%, Bronx county has the highest prevalence in the state. These statistics take on new meaning with the findings of a study released in November 2024 by the Dementia Risk Reduction Project showing that three of 12 risk factors that may influence dementia risk are smoking, air pollution, and diabetes. The Bronx has the second-highest percentage of adult smokers at 11.7%, slightly behind Staten Island at 12%.
Findings: Research indicates that air quality in the South Bronx is poor because of factories, industry, and thousands of trucks moving through the community emitting nitrogen oxide. The Dementia Risk Reduction Project found that prolonged exposure to air pollution significantly raises dementia risk. . . . Prevalence of diabetes among New York City residents also makes the results of this study significant, with approximately 16% of Bronx residents being diagnosed with the ailment, the highest rate by county in the state.
DEI : ‘This study has even greater implications for Black and Brown New York City residents. In the Bronx, where pollution is the highest, the racial makeup is 56.6% Hispanic and 28.2% Black. Coupled with statistics showing that 14.5% of New Yorkers diagnosed with diabetes are Black, and 11.7% are Hispanic, the risk of Black and Brown New Yorkers is clearly greater. In addition, Black Americans with Alzheimer’s are more likely to be diagnosed later.’”
*** “’Grandpas’ got together to help kids. Scientists say it boosts the elders’ health, too,” by Ashley Milne-Tyte, NPR News “Health Shots” (March 26, 2025): The Lede: “Life after retirement can be isolating for a lot of people, but particularly for older men who were often raised to be providers and built their whole identities around their jobs.”
The Purpose: “Jim Isenberg, now in his late 70s, knows that feeling. He. . . and his friend Frank Williamsultimately founded their own group in 2018 . . . , Grandpas United. . . to bring retired men together socially and give them a continued sense of purpose by having them volunteer in the community.”
What They Do: Among their projects, “Grandpas United works with boys and young men. One of their initiatives is called JumpStart for Dads, which helps new, young fathers adjust to parenthood and learn from the grandpas’ own experiences.”
The Upshot: “Programs like this have real benefits, says Dr. Linda Fried . . . , dean of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. A few decades ago she was a practicing geriatrician and she noticed a recurring pattern in her practice. ‘I started having patient after patient … for whom the reasons they were truly sick, were that they had no reason to get up in the morning,’ Fried says. They felt they had no value in society.
“She lists four things she says are essential for older people’s health: ‘Their physical activity, their connection with others, their cognitive activity in ways that exercise and strengthen . . . memory and thinking,’ she says. And, finally, ‘the need to feel like you matter on this planet.’”
The Series: This story is part of Ashley Milne-Tyte’s series on older men, which we cited in the last GBONews.org issue: *** “‘Grandpas United’ creates volunteer opportunities for the benefit of young and old,”, NPR News“Morning Edition” (March 12, 2025); and
“Men die younger than women. Is it time for a focus on men’s health?” NPR News (Feb. 19, 2025).
*** “Stricter background checks for caregivers finds major support at the Roundhouse,” by Leah Romero, Source NM (Feb. 20, 2025): The Dek: ‘If they have a criminal background, they shouldn’t be in this business.’” The Lede— “New Mexico is facing an increase in severe cases of abuse, neglect and exploitation of disabled and older residents, according to Dan Lanari, director of the Health Care Authority’s Division of Health Improvement.”
The Impact: “Lanari told members of the [NM] House Health and Human Services Committee [in February] that between Fiscal Year 2020 and 2024, a 117% increase occurred in such cases for people receiving Developmental Disabilities Waiver services, while there was a 76% increase in cases at health care facilities, including hospitals, nursing homes and assisted living facilities. ‘Examples of these are medical neglect resulting in death, medical neglect resulting in a broken jaw of individuals, exploitation exceeding $10,000 of individuals,’ he said.”
* Romero preceded the abuse article on Feb.12 with “Serving seniors: AAA director and Raton Mayor Segotta talks aging in NM.” The story provides a basic explanation of the roles of New Mexico’s four Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs) as “nonprofit or public organizations the state designates to serve people aged 60 and over were established through the federal Older Americans Act. While the number of seniors in New Mexico is growing rapidly, the percentage of those who take advantage of available state services remains minuscule, according to Neil Segotta, the director of the state’s Non-Metro Area Agency on Aging. [The] agency serves nearly 39,000 seniors across the state, which is only 8% of those eligible.”
A Quote: Segotta, also the Mayor of Raton, NM, said, “Basically our main service is to try to keep the senior in their home as long as they can, That’s what we try to do is just extend the senior’s life and let them enjoy it in the comfort of their homes. . . , In addition to state funding, Segotta said his AAA receives approximately $9 million annually from the federal government, or 17% to 18% of his budget. Local government and donations from seniors support the remainder of the budget. . . Even though it sounds like we’re getting a good boost [from the state], it really doesn’t go very far.”
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