GBONEWS: 17th Journalists in Aging Fellows Program at GSA Scientific Meeting, Nov. 4-7; New Elder Justice Reporting Fellowship; 5 Continuing Fellows Named; YouTube Webinar on Reframing Aging, GLP-1 Drugs, U.S. Age Diversity; Senior-Scams Research; Long-Term Care Ballot Initiatives; Dem Plans to Strengthening Medicare; Gun Owners and Dementia; Rural Hospitals at Risk
GENERATIONS BEAT ONLINE NEWS
E-News of the Journalists Network on Generations.
Oct. 30, 2026 — Volume 33, Number 10
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In This Issue: The horror ends Nov. 4—No more election mail strangling our mail slots (until democracy tries again).
1. EYES ON THE PRIZE: *** 17th Annual Journalists in Aging Fellows Program Takes Off at the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) Annual Scientific Meeting, National Harbor, MD; *** New Elder Justice Reporting Fellowship; *** 5 Journalists in Aging Continuing Fellows Named: *** YouTube Webinar on Reframing Aging, GLP-1 Drugs, U.S. Age Diversity.
2. GEN BEATLES NEWS: *** Rich Eisenberg’s “Big Chunk” of Time Magazine’s “Best Inventions of 2026”; ***John Leland Makes History (sort of) in NYT’s 175th anniversary series selection of irate Letters to the Editor, “From Trotsky to Steinem, the Art of the Complaint.”
3. THE STORYBOARD:
*** “When Scammers Target Seniors,” by Liz Seegert, Knowable Magazine;
*** “How To Think About Middle-Income Seniors Who Need Long-Term Care,” by Howard Gleckman, Forbes;
*** “Ballot Initiatives Can Fund Long-Term Care,” by Mark Swartz, Aging in America News;
*** “Senate Democrats unveil new plans for strengthening Medicare,” by Nathaniel Weixel and Joseph Choi, The Hill;
*** “When a Gun Owner Shows Early Signs of Dementia,” by Paula Span, New York Times “New Old Age” column, produced with KFF Health News;
*** “Hundreds of Rural Hospitals at Risk Amid Healthcare Affordability Crisis,” by Sunita Sohrabji, American Community Media;
4. THE MEDIAMOBILE: *** The 13th Legacy Film Festival on Aging Zooming through Nov. 22, 2026.
1. EYES ON THE PRIZE
*** The 17th Annual Journalists in Aging Fellows Program Takes Off at the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) Annual Scientific Meeting, at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor, MD (near Washington, DC), starting with our Nov. 4 training day for this year’s 15 New Fellows, plus five newly added Continuing Fellows, who held past fellowships and have been invited to return on travel grants.
Also, we’ve added two New Fellows, listed below, since the initial announcement in the September issue of GBONews.org. (Click here for a complete list of the 2026-27 “class” of New Fellows.) Fellows are working journalists who apply from the corporate media and ethnic/community press outlets the Press Room will be in Magnolia 1 and 2.
For reporters who won’t be part of the fellowship, GSA offers both onsite and online access to story resources. If you’re in the DC-Baltimore area, the huge research association offer gratis media passes. You can register online or contact GSA Communications Director Todd Kluss (tkluss@geron.org, 202-587-2839).
Reports may also search the thousands of presentations and papers online by topic, researcher’s name, city/state and other categories. Here is the link to the program website. Anyone can browse the sessions and search to see symposium/paper’s overview abstracts, although these may only list the session’s organizer and not the other presenters. It’s a bit clumsy that way, but once you know of a promising session theme, you can search the topic separately to see which speakers may turn up for the same session.
News Briefings: The conference will also include two news presentations. Onsite only, on Thurs., Nov. 5, AARP will release its report, “2026 Caregiving Out-of-Pocket Costs Study.” (GSA will have a release on this, as well as AARP’s website.) On Fri., Nov. 6, there will be a briefing titled, “GSA Report Explores Wearables Data as Longevity Indicators”. Both sessions will start at 12 p.m. and provide lunch.
AND–all reporters attending the conference in person are invited to schmooze with your fellow scribes at the Journalists Reception, in Magnolia 2, Friday, Nov. 6, 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wine and hors d’oeuvres will be served.
*** Five Continuing Fellows Named: Along with this year’s 15 new Journalists in Aging Fellows, we’ve invited five past program participants to join the pack.
They include: Swe Swe Aye, editor and reporter for Myanmar Gazette, the only Burmese newspaper in the United States; Deborah Bailey, contributing editor of Afro American Newspapers, one of America’s oldest black-owned news outlets; Richard Eisenberg, “unretired” independent journalists (MarketWatch, Time, Kiplinger and People among others), co-host of the “Friends Talk Money” podcast, and author of two personal finance books; Marga Parés Arroyo, Puerto Rico-based freelancer and past contributor to El Nuevo Día; Mark Swartz, founder and editor, Aging in America News (AginginAmerica.News) and author of The Music Never Died, a collection of short stories.
*** Already available online is our Journalists in Aging Fellowship Zoom recording (Oct. 21), titled, “Longevity’s Coat of Many Colors: What Reporters Need to Know About Reframing the Aging Narrative.” This initial expert webinar for the Journalists in Aging Fellows, includes the seminar for the first 60 minutes. (The remaining half hour is an overview of conference logistics for those coming to the conference.)
For this Zoom session, three national experts on aging will highlight key issues in aging. GSA’s current Board President Tamara Baker, PhD, FGSA, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, charted the overlapping tangents of “diversity” in America’s aging population, beyond ethnicity. James Powers, MD, FGSA, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center examined the little-covered geriatric challenges of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs.
And GSA’s policy VP, Patricia M. “Trish” D’Antonio, BSPharm, MS, MBA, BCGP, elaborated on key questions for reporters in understanding the movement to reframe aging in ways that divert perceptions of older ages from ageist stereotypes. She also serves as executive director for National Center to Reframe Aging, at GSA.
New Elder Justice Reporting Fellowship
*** The Journalists in Aging Fellows Program has selected CNBC.com’s Lorie Konish to receive the first Dr. Elizabeth Podnieks Elder Justice Reporting Fellowship, named for the late founder of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD).
Established in honor of Professor Elizabeth Podnieks, EDD, who died in 2024, at age 94, the memorial fellowship will serve as an active extension of her international contributions toward the public understanding of elder justice concerns and the prevention of elder abuse, at all levels. Those range from individual maltreatment and financial exploitation to systematic practices or policies by private or government entities that disadvantage older people.
For the Fellowship, CNBC’s Konish, who covers retirement finance and policy, plans to investigate the legal and legislative entanglements that often complicate the transfer of a home when ownership is left unclear because a deceased loved one failed to leave a will or estate plan. Without clear ownership, for example, heirs may find themselves ineligible for benefits, such as tax breaks or loans, needed to maintain the home, sometime jeopardizing the family’s retention of the property.
Further, Konish aims to report in-depth on how family survivors may face huge bills for past property taxes, mortgages or other payments, and possibly lose their home to an auction sale. “This is a legal issue that impacts older adults, particularly individuals who are low-income or live in racially diverse communities,” she said.
Konish, previously reported for the Associated Press and was an editor at Investment News among others. As a 2025-26 Journalists on Aging Fellow, Konish filed articles about White House efforts to cut the only federal jobs program for low-income older workers, as well as a story about the potential impact on needy seniors of the “Big Beautiful Bill’s” work requirements to receive SNAP food-security assistance.
Dr. Whom?
The new Dr. Elizabeth Podnieks Elder Justice Reporting Fellowship is being privately funded by long-time Journalists in Aging supporters, financial gerontologist John Migliaccio, PhD, president of the consulting firm Maturity Mark Services,and Betty F. Malks, ACSW, the retired director of the Social Services Agency for Santa Clara County, CA. She formerly served as board chair of WEAAD and the National Adult Protective Services Association.
Malks recalled how Podnieks “became a mentor and great friend” when she enlisted her help in creating an annual dayfor elder abuse prevention, during a 2005 World Health Organization conference on amplifying the “missing voices” of vulnerable populations.
Podnieks, a professor at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), was already recognized for her international research on elder justice issues, such as Canada’s first National Survey on Abuse of the Elderly in 1991.
A nurse educator, specializing in sociology and gerontology, Podnieks went on to found the Canadian Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse and became a founding member of the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse, serving in executive roles for both organizations. Podnieks was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 2000. She was a co-editor of The Worldwide Face of Elder Abuse (Springer Nature, 2023), also coauthoring a chapter on elder abuse in the United States.
Working globally with Malks and other colleagues, she established World Elder Abuse Awareness Day in 2006, held on every June 15. That date was set as a United Nations Day in 2011, by the UN General Assembly.
Not only is WEAAD recognized with professional education programs by organizations such as GSA, the American Society on Aging and Canada’s CanAge, but many groups and agencies, such as the Los Angeles County Aging & Disabilities Department, observe the “Day” with many public-awareness events throughout June.
Podnieks, speaking to the California Elder Justice Coalition in 2020, as COVID-19 shrouded the globe, explained, “WEAAD is dedicated to older people who have charted paths, built communities, contributed to society and to all generations. The pandemic may have changed the world, but people still have the power to cope with adversity, to emerge stronger, more resilient, more thoughtful and giving.”
In creating the new Fellowship, Malks and Migliaccio said they hope to foster greater public attention to the many dimensions of abuse and exploitation of older adults, as well as effective approaches to their prevention, through in-depth journalism.
CNBC’s Lorie Konish will join 14 other 2026-27 Journalists in Aging Fellows at GSA’s Annual Scientific Meeting in National Harbor, Md., Nov. 4-7. Also tapped for the fellowship program since our last issue was Amy Carlson Gustafson, who will write for the statewide news site MinnPost about how Minnesota’s older adults are embracing arts and culture, and the health benefits that follow. A complete list of this year’s 17th annual Journalists in Aging Fellows, click here.
Along with the contributions of Malks and Migliaccio, the fellowship program is supported by funding from Silver Century Foundation, The Commonwealth Fund, The John A. Hartford Foundation, National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation (NIHCM), Health Foundation for Western & Central New York, and the Aging and Gerontology Programs at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
2. GEN BEATLES NEWS
*** The Ever-Prolific Rich Eisenberg contributed “a big chunk” of Time Magazine’s new review of 300 “The Best Inventions of 2026.” He wrote, “My pieces are part of 14 of the categories, from ‘Accessibility’ to ‘Entertainment’ to ‘Parenting’ to ‘Wearable Technology.’ Some pretty remarkable new products and services.”
*** The New York Times’ John Leland has written on aging for over a quarter century at the paper, but we never expected him to make history, if oddly. The “Metro” section scribe and bestselling author of 2018’s Happiness Is a Choice You Make: Lessons from a Year Among the Oldest Old popped up in the newspaper’s 175th anniversary series “celebrating its history of eyewitness journalism.”
The feminist stalwart’s Letter to the Editor chiding Leland was reprinted in a page-long compilation of cleverly written retorts to Times stories, ( “From Trotsky to Steinem, the Art of the Complaint,” Oct. 12, 2026).
Steinem sullied his notable byline, in her Oct. 17, 2016 letter, as follows: “In a titillating lead into an otherwise accurate article about why I love New York, John Leland writes that I started my career as ‘a C.I.A. operative,’ got my ‘break as a Playboy Bunny’ and married the father of a movie star.’”
She glowered, “Only way down in the text does the reader learn that I was never told what to say or do at two Soviet-led youth festivals more than a half-century ago where American attendance was funded by C.I.A.-backed foundations, and that I worked at the Playboy Club to write an exposé of working conditions, and even that has been a lifelong burden.”
As for her husband, David Bale, father of Christian, she bristled that readers never learn that he “had an identity of his own.”
Leland emailed GBONews’ editor, “She had quite a life. I felt the icon was so well known that it made sense to write about the Gloria you don’t know. From her perspective, I think it felt like reopening some old wounds.”
Steinem’s letter appears in the NYT retrospective along such other notable complainants as Kurt Vonnegut Jr.,playwright Neil Simon, and, most eloquently, W.E.B. Du Bois. As for Leon Trotsky’s huffy missive, we trust that Leland will survive the Longevity Revolution better than Trotsky did the one in Russian.
3. THE STORYBOARD
*** “When Scammers Target Seniors,” by Liz Seegert, Knowable Magazine (Oct. 28, 2026): The Dek – “People of all ages can be tricked into parting with their money. But older individuals may have unique vulnerabilities and find it harder to recover from the financial and emotional fallout.”
The Lede: “A pop-up message and disembodied voice coming through her computer startled Jane Isay, then 81. The voice said there was a problem with her bank account and gave her a number to call.. . . She dialed the number on the screen. The man who answered told her, ‘Your bank account is about to be scammed. They’re planning to take $35,000 out of your account, so you need to get the money out now.’
“Isay was instructed to go to her bank and make a withdrawal. ‘They’ would pick it up and preserve it for her. She was warned not to call the bank, which had already been taken over by the ‘thieves.’ [Isay says], ‘I think of myself as a pretty smart person. . . I was completely taken in.’”
The Stats: “Financial exploitation is estimated to harm between 5 percent and 17 percent of people over 60. Data from the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center and the Federal Trade Commission show that financial crimes targeting older adults surged from about $600 million in 2020 to between $2.4 billion and $5 billion in 2024. Fraud continued to climb in 2025: Losses reported to the FBI added up to nearly $7.75 billion, while a new report from the FTC estimates that older adults lost up to $119.5 billion that year alone. And all these numbers may be underestimates, as the crimes are vastly underreported, particularly if the fraud is committed by a family member.”
The Tactics: “Older adults aren’t necessarily targeted more often than other age groups, but they are targeted differently, says Peter Lichtenberg, a Wayne State University researcher who has tracked federal fraud data for years. That jibes with data suggesting that specific persuasion tactics work better with older targets.”
The article goes on, “According to laboratory tests by Natalie Ebner, a University of Florida expert in cognitive aging, “weapons of influence” such as liking (finding common ground) and reciprocity (offering something free first) are more effective on older adults than on younger ones in laboratory tests.”
Who’s Vulnerable: “One piece of the puzzle — happily, a modifiable one — emerged from a 2025 study of 672 adults 60 and older in Pittsburgh and New York. Older adults with higher scores on tests of basic financial knowledge and numeracy were significantly less susceptible to scams, and less likely to end up victimized, than those with lower scores. Men and participants from Black and Hispanic groups were particularly at risk.”
The Impersonators: “From 2020 to 2024, reports from older adults losing $10,000 or more to government or business impersonation scams increased more than fourfold, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Reports of losses over $100,000 increased more than eightfold. Confidence fraud and romance scams alone resulted in 7,626 victims over age 60, with total losses of approximately $389 million in 2024.”
*** “How To Think About Middle-Income Seniors Who Need Long-Term Care,” by Howard Gleckman, Forbes (Oct. 20, 2026):
The Summary – “Millions of middle-income older adults do not qualify for Medicaid but cannot afford out-of-pocket long-term care. A new report focusing on California examines this overlooked middle population, defining those aged 50 and older with specific income ranges.
“For single adults, this means incomes between $21,000 and $75,000, while married couples range from $28,000 to $102,000. These middle-income seniors represent about 40 percent of all Californians who need long-term care services. The study reveals a massive gap between what this population wants and what the current system provides. Most want to stay in their own homes, yet many hold unrealistic hopes that Medicare will pay for their care.”
The Report: “The project, led by Marc Cohen of the LeadingAge LTSS Center at the University of Massachusetts Boston and consultant Gretchen Alkema of Wolf Eagle Enterprises, focuses on California. But its findings apply to every state and community in the U.S., even if some specific demographics inevitably will differ.
“Today, most of the policy focus on long-term care needs is, rightly, on supporting low-income older adults and younger people with disabilities. They are under enormous pressure from the Trump Administration’s cuts to Medicaid and other programs. But the needs of middle-income households are getting new attention as well, both from researchers and the senior services market.”
Who Is Middle-Income?: “First, it takes a stab at defining who this population is. For most of us, if you are not poor and not rich, you are middle-income. But nobody really knows what that means, and the first step towards fixing a problem is defining it.
“The California study focuses on those aged 50 and older with incomes between 139% and 500% of the Federal Poverty Level. For single adults, that translates to between about $21,000 and $75,000. For married couples, it ranges from $28,000 to $102,000. In California alone, that’s 5.5 million people aged 50 and older.”
*** “Ballot Initiatives Can Fund Long-Term Care,” by Mark Swartz, Aging in America News (Oct. 22, 2026): The Dek– “Why some voters are saying yes to tax increases, instead of facing aging costs alone. In the fall of 2024, a Washington State ballot measure asked voters to gut one of the most ambitious elder-care programs in the country. . . . The state’s WA Cares Fund, the nation’s first public long-term care insurance program funded through a small payroll tax, had only recently begun collecting premiums.
“The measure on the ballot wouldn’t have repealed it outright — it would have made participation voluntary . . . . ‘A voluntary public program is doomed to fail,’ said Howard Gleckman, a visiting fellow at the Urban Institute and the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center” . . . . “To the surprise of many onlookers, Washington voters rejected it. The tax and the insurance program stayed in place, and this past July, the fund began paying its first benefits.”
The Question: “Popular support for WA Cares led some to ask a bigger question: Could ballot initiatives be a new tool for voters to compel states to pay a bigger share for the care of their aging populations?”
Gleckman continues, “In a 2020 episode of the Great Battlefield podcast, Chris Melody Fields Figueredo of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center characterizes this advocacy approach, putting public programs on the ballot instead of asking legislators to pass them, as ‘a response to broken-ness’; when state legislatures aren’t meeting the needs of the electorate, advocates might choose to take the case directly to voters.”
*** “Senate Democrats unveil new plans for strengthening Medicare,” by Nathaniel Weixel and Joseph Choi, The Hill (Oct. 16, 2026): The (Sloppy) Lede: “Led by Sen. Ron Wyden (R-Ore.) [sic: Wyden is a Democrat, not an “R”], ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, Senate Democrats on Friday published their aims of revamping the long-term care system in the U.S., encompassing both home care and nursing homes.”
The Hope: “The document serves as something of a blueprintfor what Democrats hope to achieve in the Medicare space if they reclaim Congress in the upcoming midterms.
“At the top of their list is the goal of making long-term care universally available to all Americans. “‘Throughout 95 listening sessions, Senate Democrats heard repeatedly about the importance of establishing universal coverage for LTC. Democrats’ goal is to make sure that the LTC system serves all people across age and disability, and across diagnoses, functional needs, and life stages.’”
The Cost: “According to the Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program, the national average cost of a semi-private room in a nursing home was $112,4201 in 2025.” [Boldface emphasis by the authors.]
*** “When a Gun Owner Shows Early Signs of Dementia,” by Paula Span, New York Times “New Old Age” column, produced with KFF Health News (Oct. 17, 2026): The Dek — “Public health experts are finding ways to encourage firearm safety practices for older adults who own guns, especially when there are indications of cognitive decline.”
The Risk: “[The] death rate isn’t much higher than the overall rate, but . . . more than 90 percent of gun deaths among older people are suicides. Researchers hoping to reduce those numbers are now looking at older people who . . . haven’t received a dementia diagnosis but are experiencing worsening confusion or memory loss.”
A Stat: “A survey in seven states found that a third of those 65 and older with such “subjective cognitive decline” reported having a gun in their households, and a quarter of them hadn’t securely stored them. That was a higher proportion of nonsecure storage than among those with normal cognition, though the difference was not statistically significant.
“‘We worry about these people getting confused and having quick, unfettered access to a firearm,’ said Kelsey M. Conrick, PhD, MPH, the lead author of the paper. . . . Guns make them feel safer, even if they’re not: An often cited meta-analysis from 2011 reported that a firearm in the home raised the risk of suicides and accidents, with “no credible evidence” of deterring crime or reducing injuries from intrusions or altercations.”
Some Solutions: “At the University of Colorado, Dr. [Marian] Betz has developed Safety in Dementia, an online tool that helps caregivers prepare for decision making about firearms and other hazards. Another tool kit, the Firearm Life Plan, allows owners to document what should happen once they can no longer use firearms responsibly. Almost 16,000 people have used it since 2022, according to the university.
“Firearm safety discussions should become part of an annual Medicare wellness visit, [Dr. Lena Makaroun, of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine] and her co-authors proposed in a recent New England Journal of Medicine editorial. Those visits reach about 60 percent of beneficiaries and emphasize safety and prevention.”
*** “Hundreds of Rural Hospitals at Risk Amid Healthcare Affordability Crisis,” by Sunita Sohrabji, American Community Media (Oct 1, 2026): The Dek – “Across the U.S., 700 hospitals in rural regions are facing the threat of closure, according to data from the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform. Of those, over 260 are in immediate risk of closing due to financial cuts.”
The Lede: “For one 60-year-old woman living in rural East Tennessee, a preventable stroke became a life-altering crisis because she lacked health insurance coverage. ‘She doesn’t have access to Medicare just yet, and she doesn’t have access to employer-sponsored health insurance,’ said Dr. Amy Gordon Bono, the patient’s physician. ‘She works as a caregiver, helping others while unable to afford healthcare herself.’
“The woman — whom Bono did not name — was enrolled in an Affordable Care Act marketplace plan but lost her insurance when she couldn’t keep making the payments, because of a dramatic spike in monthly premiums that kicked in last January.”
The Cost: “More than 66 million Americans live in rural areas. Roughly 8.4% — more than 5.5 million rural residents — lack health insurance coverage, according to an analysis by the Rural Policy Research Institute.”
Sohrabji added, “That percentage is likely to increase dramatically as H.R. 1 — the tax-and-spending measure known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed into law in July 2025 — takes effect, slashing $1 trillion from the Medicaid budget over 10 years and adding new requirements for eligibility. Congress also failed to extend Affordable Care Act enhanced premium tax credits, which expired at the end of 2025. Marketplace premiums rose for consumers an average of 25.5% in 2026.”
4. THE MEDIAMOBILE
*** The 13th Legacy Film Festival on Aging is Zooming along through Nov. 22, 2026, “showcasing some favorite films from previous festivals—lively thought-provoking and entertaining films from around the world that highlight the variety of later life experiences. We’re also excited to share several new films, one of them a follow-up to an older film.”
According to Sheila Malkind, the San Francisco-based Festival’s 88-year-old founder and director, “When we looked at our vast library of films that we have shown in past festivals, we realized that this time we wanted to reinvigorate and bring back some of the best of the best films.”
Featured films were produced between 1998 and today.To assist filmgoers in selecting programs that best suit their interests, we offer Legacy Fest movie trailers for many of our films with captions. Go to FILM PROGRAMS to view the international array of films, many of which offer links trailers.
She added that this year’s 13th Annual, 4th Virtual Film Fest is running through Nov 22, “to give our viewers the chance to slowly sip and take in as many of the films as they choose to see. . . Several of Legacy’s festival themes recognize that meaningful and deeply gratifying relationships often are developed with younger family members who are thrust into the caregiver role in, i.e., Director Emeline Sanchez’ Caring for Mom.”
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