Photo by Online Marketing on Unsplash It’s open enrollment season for Medicare through December 7, which means it’s open season on the elderly or those hoping to become so. Last year, according to a study by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), a nonprofit health policy organization, 643,000 Medicare ads ran on television during the nine-week enrollment season, most […]
No. 43/October 25, 2023 NewScan is a biweekly briefing on news relevant to readers of The EndGame. NewScan is a premium feature exclusively for paid subscribers. Who’s Old: 80 is the new 60 The latest study from Age Wave, The New Age of Aging, finds that the rising tide of older adults has already changed […]
Photo by Carlos Torres on Unsplash Louise Aronson, a geriatrician and author, points out that older adults have been systematically neglected and underserved by the American healthcare system. This neglect is reflected in our healthcare institutions: Pediatricians and pediatric hospitals to treat children, internists and mainstream hospitals treat adults. For older adults we have…nursing homes. The EndGame is […]
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Photo by Damian Barczak on Unsplash Fifty years ago, when I was young and stupid, marijuana was hands down my drug of choice. For a straight-laced, straight A, rule-following, risk-averse young fellow, the thrill of doing something illicit was part of its appeal, but the real attraction was the way the drug made me feel. It allowed me […]
No. 42/October 11, 2023 NewScan is a biweekly briefing on news relevant to readers of The EndGame. NewScan is a premium feature exclusively for paid subscribers. Most Depressing Headline of the Week For me, a person inclined to take life sitting down, this was the undisputed winner: “Sitting more than 10 hours a day could […]
Photo by Unsplash in collaboration with Getty Images The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. On a half dozen occasions this past June, I would be in the middle of a conversation when, without warning, my voice would turn hoarse. By […]
Raymond Jetson, a church pastor, Harvard fellow, and former state legislator, founded Aging While Black to explore the unique experience of Black Americans, particularly how social, political and economic inequalities have a bearing on aging. As the driving force behind Metromorphosis, a social change nonprofit, he has developed an approach built on engaging and convening […]
Photo by Jeremy Wong on Unsplash It must be true that I have mellowed with age. This is a good thing, as the angry-young-man schtick looks pretty ridiculous on genial old Pop Pop. But bullying is one exception that always makes my blood boil. I respond viscerally whenever I learn of the strong terrorizing the weak just because […]
No. 41/September 27, 2023 NewScan is a biweekly briefing on news relevant to readers of The EndGame. NewScan is a premium feature exclusively for paid subscribers. Where are the volunteers? The 70 million retirees in the U.S. represent “the greatest concentration of knowledge, experience, and emotional intelligence in the nation’s history,” says Ken Dychtw… Read […]
