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January 30, 2024 — Quantity 32, Quantity 2
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In This Factor: Injury and Amaze, Shuck and Jive.
1. THE WASHINGTON SPLEEN: The Pristine Management’s Razzle Hustle
* “Key Players and Health Policy Insights for 119th Congress,” by means of Catherine Murphy, Affiliation of Condition and Territorial Condition Officers (ASTHO);
* From KFF Condition — “What To Know About Trump’s Executive Orders on US Health Care,” 7 speedy slides by means of Tarena Lofton; “KFF Health Tracking Poll: Public Weighs Health Care Spending and Other Priorities for Incoming Administration.”
* “Trump’s Early Health Moves Signal Intent To Erase Biden’s Legacy. What’s Next Is Unclear,” by means of Julie Appleby and Stephanie Armour.
* “Improving Wellness Among Seniors: Setting a Standard for the American Dream,” U.S. Senate Particular Committee on Growing old, listening to on Jan. 15, 2025.
* MEANWHILE – What’s the entire fuss hiding–in modest visual?” “New Luxury Hotel in Serbia Will Be a Trump-Kushner Joint Project,” by means of Eric Lipton, NY Occasions.
2. INFLUENCERS? HOW ABOUT JOURNALISTS
*** “In Journalism We Trust,” To The Easiest Of Our Wisdom, Wisconsin Society Radio/NPR: “Reclaiming journalism in a fast-changing media landscape,” insightful interview with Undark copy writer and MIT Knight Science Journalism Program Director Deborah Blum (15 minutes);
* Plus The podcast contains “How a hyperlocal newsletter is redefining the ‘news’,” with journalist Robert Gurwitt, of the day by day e-newsletter Morning time (Vermont and Pristine Hampshire, 14 minutes.), and an interview with NYT’s Ezra Klein (19 minutes).
3. THE BOOKMOBILE: *** The Misplaced and the Discovered: A True Tale of Homelessness, Discovered Society, and 2d Possibilities, by means of Kevin Fagan; *** Doctored: Fraud, Ego, and Tragedy within the Quest to Medication Alzheimer’s by means of Charles Piller.
4. GEN BEATLES NEWS: *** Oppose the Presses! Gen-Beat Columnist Judith Graham retires from KFF Information;
*** Mark Taylor’s Clinic, Heal Thyself (Wiley), wins Chicago Writers Affiliation’s Store of the Presen Award;
*** Jeanette Leardi’s Growing old Sideways attracts writer interviews at Forbes and Fortune.
*** Ambika Kandasamy commemorated by means of San Francisco Press Membership for “Protecting Chinatown’s Older Adults From Climate Disasters Requires More Funding, Nonprofits Say,” in San Francisco Society Press.
*** “Aging in America” line at UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program refunded by means of SCAN Base.
1. THE WASHINGTON SPLEEN
*** The Pristine Management’s Razzle-Hustle from the investment freeze to inspector basic firings is predictably overwhelming a lot of the underlying information round federal methods and movements affecting used American citizens. Who will top methods, such because the Management on Growing old inside the Management for Family Residing gained’t be introduced till a Secretary of Condition and Human Services and products is showed. (Oh, yeah, that man.) GBONews.org plans to file at the telling minutia and alternative noteceable trends as they emerge.
In the meantime, one to hand resources is “Key Players and Health Policy Insights for 119th Congress,” an outline of health-related committees and number one individuals by means of Catherine Murphy on the Affiliation of Condition and Territorial Condition Officers (ASTHO) web site.
A number of committees within the Space of Representatives center of attention on other retirement-related problems. A number one one to say is the Social Security subcommittee of the tough Tactics and Manner Committee. The unused chair is Ron Estes, R-KS, with rating member, John Larson, D-CT. See the overall checklist of subcommittee individuals on the connected web page by means of scrolling ailing. Have you learnt the place your consultant is growing older?
Even if efforts to restore the Space Make a choice Committee on Growing old, abolished by means of Democrats in 1993, aren’t apt to get traction within the nearest few years, the Senate Particular Committee on Growing old has already been busy underneath Chairman Rick Scott, R-FL, and Rating Member Kirsten Gillibrand, D-NY.
On Jan. 15, the Senate committee were given busy with a listening to titled, “Improving Wellness Among Seniors: Setting a Standard for the American Dream.” This hyperlink will jerk you to video of the listening to, 2:07 hours, additionally with written testimony by means of such eyewitnesses as María Alvarez, govt director, Pristine York StateWide Senior Motion Council, and Susan Hughes, PhD, Inauguration Director, Heart for Analysis on Condition and Growing old, College of Illinois Chicago. The committee’s official page contains knowledge on nearest conferences and the roster of the unused committee individuals.
Relating to fitness problems, Sen. Scott is a cofounder of Columbia/Clinic Company of American (HCA), the most important for-profit fitness lend a hand supplier within the crowd. (Wikipedia notes, “During his tenure as chief executive, [until 1997], the company defrauded Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal programs.”)
Sen. Gillibrand’s Wikipedia page stories that previous in her regulation profession, she represented tobacco immense Philip Morris in civil and felony instances. The company’s marketing campaign donations to her did transform a topic. In her protection she wired that she’d voted in bias of anti-tobacco expenses.”
To practice age-related White Space trends on fitness lend a hand and growing older, our latter factor instructed monitoring Kaiser Base’s KFF Condition Information and the Commonwealth Investmrent. Since later, KFF printed a number of useful items in regards to the unused regime in Washington..
* As an example, “What To Know About Trump’s Executive Orders on US Health Care,” by means of Tarena Lofton (Jan. 22, 2025) is composed of a quick-take slide presentation that they did for Instagram. The seven slides, as an example, confirms: “Trump also halted some efforts to limit prescription drug spending by Medicare and Medicaid, as the second round of Medicare price negotiations with drug makers is slated for this year.”
Additionally, they spill out “KFF Health Tracking Poll: Public Weighs Health Care Spending and Other Priorities for Incoming Administration.” It displays that “both Medicare and Medicaid continue to be viewed favorably across party lines, including by majorities of Republicans, Democrats, and Independents. Half of respondents in the nationally representative survey say the federal government spends ‘not enough’ on Medicare (51%) or Medicaid (46%). In comparison, only 15% say that the government is spending ‘too much’ on these programs. Over 60% of adults hold a favorable view of the Affordable Care Act.”
The ballot discovered, “There is also broad public agreement on bolstering health care access and affordability. More than half of respondents said that more closely regulating the process that insurance companies use when they approve or deny care or prescription drugs should be a ‘top priority’ for the administration and Congress, and expanding the number of prescription drugs that the federal government negotiates the Medicare price on is also ranked as a ‘top priority’ by a majority of the public including two-thirds of Democrats, 54% of independents, 48% of Republicans and three-fourths of people who are currently enrolled in Medicare.”
Additionally, from KFF Condition Information — “Trump’s Early Health Moves Signal Intent To Erase Biden’s Legacy. What’s Next Is Unclear,” by means of Julie Appleby and Stephanie Armour (Jan. 24, 2025): The Crux: “The directives, while less expansive than orders he issued at the beginning of his first term, provide a possible road map that health researchers say could increase the number of uninsured Americans and weaken safety-net protections for low-income people.” KFF would possibly appear to be an distinguishable go-to, however stay up for bylines in their veteran journalists, corresponding to those two. Their reporting trade in noteceable insights and clues to which coverage rocks want lifting to show key community fitness results.
*** MEANWHILE – Underneath the entire injury and surprise of the unused management’s first weeks, newshounds would do the populace neatly by means of proceeding to invite, “What are those in power hiding, especially in plain sight?” As an example:
* “New Luxury Hotel in Serbia Will Be a Trump-Kushner Joint Project,” by means of Eric Lipton, NY Occasions (Jan. 24, 2025): In a Nutshell — “More than a decade after Donald J. Trump first floated the idea of developing a Trump hotel on a government-owned site in Serbia, his family is now close to securing that dream in a complicated deal that also involves a real estate magnate from Abu Dhabi and Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law. The plan illustrates the continued ambitions of Mr. Trump’s family to forge new international deals, even as he has returned to the White House. It also reflects a diminished focus, compared with that of his first term, on avoiding the appearance of a conflict of interest associated with the overseas projects.”
Many of the investment, says the tale, comes from the $4.6 Billion Kushner in large part accumulated for his challenge capital treasure from Saudi Arabia and alternative Arab international locations. What did the U.S. Charter say about “emoluments,” once more? (Article I, Category 9, Clause 8).
2. INFLUENCERS? HOW ABOUT JOURNALISTS
*** “In Journalism We Trust,” To The Easiest Of Our Wisdom, Wisconsin Society Radio/NPR (Jan, 26, 2025, 51 minutes.): This program, first aired latter June, contains 3 areas, starting with a slightly fascinating 19-minute interview with Pristine York Occasions podcaster Ezra Klein by means of this system’s Steve Paulson.
However GBONews’ essayist was once particularly concerned with “Reclaiming journalism in a fast-changing media landscape,” an illuminating back-to-basics (15-minute) dialogue {and professional} instructional at the parts of journalism, right through this fraught week, with Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Deborah Blum.
On this interview by means of program manufacturer Shannon Henry Kleiber, Blum, reminds that “both reporters and news consumers have a responsibility to try to understand the truth.” Because the director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT and writer of this system’s nice Undark copy, she discusses the elemental processes and duties of reporting, and the will for extra community schooling about what we do.
Blum’s observations held my consideration, in particular as a result of I discovered myself stuck off-guard just lately after I guest-lectured for an undergraduate journalism magnificence. Amongst their wonderful questions – so smart, so shining – have been calls for really helpful excellent resources on problems in growing older. Next I discussed a number of, one pupil requested if I may suggest “influencers.” I discovered myself ashamed to be blindsided.
In fact, Gen Zers are particularly following all means of social media now, and I will have to had been willing a minimum of to speak about the will to select any supply neatly, and in line with journalistic requirements. Everyone knows what the ones are, proper? However, ah, sputter, sputter. What’s distinctive about excellent journalism? Blum trade in incisive and succinct language in regards to the evaluative energy of our much-challenged however necessary occupation.
* Additionally neatly utility it’s 14 mins of listening in this program is Paulson’s utmost piece, “How a hyperlocal newsletter is redefining the ‘news’,” journalist Robert Gurwitt, who writes the day by day e-newsletter Morning time, serving the Higher Valley in Vermont and Pristine Hampshire.
Gurwitt discusses the editorial and fiscal demanding situations of origination an separate on-line native information supply. Gurwitt’s day by day trade in a short learn of the whole thing from faculty board conferences to nature pictures to native endure sightings. He’s been a journalist for 4 many years, writing for such shops as AARP, Columbia Journalism Assessment, LA Occasions and Pristine York Occasions.
3. THE BOOKMOBILE
*** The Lost and the Found: A True Tale of Homelessness, Discovered Society, and 2d Possibilities, by means of Kevin Fagan, One Sign/Atria-Simon & Schuster: “What a whirlwind this past few weeks has been,” posted San Francisco Chronicle veteran Kevin Fagan on Fb previous this year. He persisted that now-former Mayor London Breed had proclaimed Jan. 8, 2025, as Kevin Fagan Pace, additionally the hour of his retirements from the newsroom.
In his reverie of depart, he went on, he was once “writing goodbye essays about my walk with [Mayor Breed] to assess homelessness, and on covering the Zodiac Killer for 28 years, playing our annual holiday gig with the Irish Newsboys in Union Square, and now, after 47 years as a working daily journalist, I am ‘retired’ as of Jan. 8.”
Fagan added, “I take that term lightly though, because One Signal/Simon & Schuster will keep me very busy once my book comes out on Feb. 11.” (Smartly, that’s between stints as a singer-songwriter.)
Having coated homelessness for many of his 32 years on the Chronicle, arguably for as lengthy and deeply as any reporter within the crowd, Fagan has concentrated his insights in regards to the causes for and patience of unhoused American citizens in his accumulation’s anecdote of 2 lives: Rita, the “surfer girl,” who would generation into her 70s in the street, and Tyson, “cool and smart and spiraling” into habit and depression, regardless of having been nurtured in privilege.
Fagan writes within the accumulation’s advent about his personal younger aimlessness, together with a duration of homelessness. That might accentuate his non-public quest of his storytelling about hard-scrapple boulevard day with regularly untimely growing older for over 3 many years.
Fagan’s pursuit of the unhoused enjoy introduced him, regularly with in a single day remains, to places like “Homeless Island,” a wedge of concrete at a heavily-trafficked, panhandle-ready, junction close the town’s heart. There, his simple means and the boyish allure he additionally brings to his avocation as an area nation singer, endeared him to plenty electorate of the curb to allow Fagan to plumb their lives over age for solutions. There, however for fortune – and for higher, extra compassionate community coverage answers – move the remains people.
Boulevard Sagas of Rita and Tyson
In telling the day sagas of Rita and Tyson, Fagan peels again now not most effective the struggles of actual lives, but in addition of the societal selections the infest communities with homelessness. That’s without reference to sunny and confirmed answers he explores which have been open in some communities.
But, in San Francisco and such a lot of alternative communities reluctant to decide to finishing the cruelties alongside the pavement, the homelessness factor has persevered, a lot because the pigeon mites that will infect Fagan’s blanket when he’d spend nights at the Island, inflicting him to evoke itching and, on returning house, compelling his spouse to on occasion burn his garments. Others there who had deny houses have been prone to power and on occasion miserable infections.
By way of the accumulation’s finish, even supposing its lengthy since he camped out with the road colony, Fagan concludes in regards to the unrelenting itch of homelessness in the USA.
Fagan writes, “As a journalist who’s worked in Britain and Australia, I’ll tell you that they and other developed countries like them think we’re insane. They have national health systems, we don’t. They have guaranteed housing for the poor, we don’t. They have mostly free college education and living-wage rules, we don’t. . . . America operates under a different mindset. A more callous one.”
He provides, “I feel two things when I’m squatting down on a sidewalk to talk with someone who’s living hard time outside, often drug addicted . . . First, I may be a newspaper reporter, but in that moment I am also a counselor of sorts, acutely aware that what I say, write, and do will possibly have a huge effect on people who unveil a piece of their soul to me and maybe help them understand themselves better. I have a responsibility to be kind. Helpful, empathetic, accurate … The other thing I feel is misery. And a form of simpatico. After decades of writing about street life and death along with the other hard subjects of a news reporter, I have scars cut deep from immersing in this ocean.”
Fagan concludes, “I always also had the wider context in mind. Writers like me put a spotlight on the miserable, the needy, and the broken, with the aim of helping readers, politicians and other decision-makers to better understand those who are mired at the bottom of society, and how they can be helped, rescued, restored, given dignity. If we do it right, maybe we inspire someone to push for transformative policies, funding, or programming. Maybe readers can have a bit more understanding and care for the next panhandler they meet.”
For a assessment album of The Misplaced and the Discovered, touch Debbie Norflus
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*** Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s by means of Charles Piller may be sizzling off the clicking from One Sign/Atria-Simon & Schuster.
A veteran investigative reporter for Science Novel, Piller spent years exposing that loads of Alzheimer’s analysis papers have been in accordance with falsified information and manipulated mind imaging, together with by means of outstanding senior scientists. Status towards a tsunami of lend cash and institutional powers, was once a petite team of truthful scientists, who blew their whistles.
GBONews.org readers can see an excerpt of Doctored printed because the preserve article within the Pristine York Occasions Sunday Opinion category (Jan. 26, 2025) Headlined, “The Devastating Legacy of Lies in Alzheimer’s Science,” Piller concludes with this ominous replace at the accumulation:
“Hubris and lassitude about misconduct — shared by other funders and regulators, journals and universities — has to change. Alzheimer’s research must start self-policing effectively. . . . If the field’s institutional authorities fail to act, skeptics of science itself, most likely including those inside the Trump administration, surely will. Almost certainly, an ensuing overkill would describe ambiguity or innocent human error as fraud and eschew the thoughtful respect and due process needed to preserve what remains vital and true in neuroscience. That would enforce a new calamity on everyone who plans to grow old.”
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4. GEN BEATLES NEWS
*** Oppose the Presses! Veteran Gen-Beat Columnist Judith Graham introduced her depart in her Jan. 15, 2025, KFF Information adios, “I’m Moving Forward and Facing the Uncertainty of Aging”. On LinkedIn she wrote colleagues,” I’m retiring upcoming 41 years as a journalist, a role I’ve cherished. Even though I stay passionately within the fitness lend a hand gadget and growing older, it’s age to travel on.”
Graham connected to her ultimate “Navigating Aging” column, by which she observes, “Time and again, people have described what it’s like to let go of certainties they once lived with and adjust to new circumstances. . . . For me, 2025 is a turning point. I’m retiring after four decades as a journalist. . . . In some ways, I’m ready for the challenges that lie ahead. In many ways, I’m not.”
She confided, “The biggest unknown is what will happen to my vision. I have moderate macular degeneration in both eyes. Last year, I lost central vision in my right eye. How long will my left eye pick up the slack? . . . Like many people, I’m hoping scientific advances outpace the progression of my condition. But I’m not counting on it. Realistically, I have to plan for a future in which I might become partially blind. It’ll take courage to deal with that.”
What’s nearest? For 33 of the ones years, Graham and her husband have lived in a four-story house in Denver. She persisted, “So my husband and I are taking a leap into the unknown. We’re renovating the house, installing an elevator, and inviting our son, daughter-in-law, and grandson to move in with us. Going intergenerational. Giving up privacy. In exchange, we hope our home will be full of mutual assistance and love. There are no guarantees this will work. But we’re giving it a shot.”
*** Mark Taylor’s unused accumulation, Hospital, Heal Thyself (Wiley), “seven years in the making,” gained the Store of the Presen award from the Chicago Writers Affiliation.
*** Growing old Sideways, self-published latter hour by means of social gerontologist and columnist Jeanette Leardi, is getting nationwide realize. In a single article Forbes (Jan. 14, 2025) contributor
Dan Pontefract wrote, “Leardi takes a bold stance against the multi-billion-dollar anti-aging industry. “What message are we sending when even preteens are buying anti-aging creams? Aging isn’t a problem. It’s a reality—and a privilege. . . . She dismantles the ‘silver tsunami’ myth, a term often used to describe the aging population as an impending burden. . . . She counters. ‘We’re a silver reservoir. When you open the gates of a reservoir, it flows into the culture with skills, wisdom, and experience.” Pontefract additionally did a podcast along with her (36 mins).
And Fortune’s Margie Zable Fisher interviewed Leadri (Jan. 27, 2025) in “4 expert-backed strategies that will help you age gracefully.”
*** Ambika Kandasamy picked up the second one playground award from the San Francisco Press Membership for environmental reporting for “Protecting Chinatown’s Older Adults From Climate Disasters Requires More Funding, Nonprofits Say,”San Francisco Society Press (Dec. 8, 2023). Her in-depth file in English may be translated into Simplified Chinese language and Conventional Chinese language, with the ones hyperlinks proven in Chinese language on the supremacy of the tale. She wrote the item with backup from the Newshounds in Growing old Fellows Program, a collaboration between GBONews writer, the Newshounds Community on Generations, and The Gerontological Public of The us, with backup from the Archstone Base.
*** Just right Information for the “Aging in America” line at College of California, Berkley’s Investigative Reporting Program within the Graduate College of Journalism. The SCAN Base renewed its lend. Christine Schiavo, this system’s native information essayist, emailed GBONews, “Our journalism students will be writing aging stories for another two years.”
The grad scholars, many pursuing a masters upcoming posting various skilled articles, had advanced in-depth tales for the UC Berkeley program that experience seemed in nationwide and native media, corresponding to CNN and the Pristine York Occasions, in addition to San Francisco’s KQED community radio and the Atlanta Magazine-Charter. Take a look at the out on the “Aging in America” hyperlink above.
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