According to Lori Montgomery, writing in the Washington Post, Republicans began backtracking Wednesday on the draconian changes to Medicare contained in Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan’s Pathway to Prosperity budget proposal: ”On the eve of debt-reduction talks led by Vice President…
Continue Reading“Still the band plays ‘Waltzing Matilda’, And the old men answer the call, But year after year, more old men disappear, Someday no one will march there at all.” Even forty years ago, when Scotsman-turned-Australian Eric Bogle wrote his heartbreaking … Continue reading →
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Continue ReadingThis is a snip from my favorite “traditional music” blog. Ron and Donna are giants of the traditional music movement. In this post they are writing about Martin Carthy, a man who helped launch a traditionalist/folk revival in the 1960’s. I am particularly taken by line… “The older I have got, the more the songs […]
Continue ReadingI found this interesting. For the first time, Americans 45 and older make up a majority of the voting-age population, the Associated Press reports. “Along with the information about the growing influence of older adults, preliminary census estimates also show a decline in the number of married couples with children, slight growth in household size and […]
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Social insurance programs help people live more comfortably because they spread risk across the entire population of a nation. They make people and nations more safe and secure. Here’s how. The one thing we can say for certain about life is that bad things will happen. After all, “Nobody gets out of here alive!” But […]
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Patrick Kiger at the SecondAct blog has this excellent review Howard S. Friedman’s and Leslie R. Martin’s new book, The Longevity Project: Surprising Discoveries for Health and Long Life from the Landmark Eight-Decade Study, which is rocking preconceived notions of what it takes to age well. After analyzing data from the longest longitudinal study ever conducted […]
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How big is the gap between generations? The winning film from the Assisted Living Federation of America’s International Short Film contest poignantly captures how much we have to gain if we can just bridge that gap:
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