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July 7, 2010 — Volume 10, Number 11

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IN THIS ISSUE: A Sad Week, Fond Memories.

1. ROBERT N. BUTLER, MD, 83, DIES: Pulitzer Winner, First NIA Head, and Reporters' Friend

2. GEN BEATLES NEWS: *** Toronto Star Names Reporter to Cover Generations Beat; ***National Senior Citizens Law Center Picks Scott Parkin As Its first Communications Director.

3. THE BOOK BEAT: *** New York Times' Jane Gross Has Pub Date for New Book; ***Paula Span Continues NYT's "New Old Age" Blog and Speaking on Her Book.

4. CALENDAR & RESOURCES: *** Aug. 2 Application Deadline for MetLife Foundation Sponsors Journalism on Aging Fellowship; ***National Press Foundation Retirement Seminar Talks Now Online; NAM Posts Series on Diabetes in Indian Country, Filipino Nurses vs. U.S. Immigration, Arizona's African Refugees and California Latino Elders Hit by Recession

5. BEAL'S BEAT By EILEEN BEAL: The Unwanted Senior Boom — Financial Elder Abuse

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1. ROBERT N. BUTLER, MD, 83, DIES

If you didn't know Bob Butler, you probably would have eventually. "Another giant tree has fallen in the forest," e-mailed former Los Angeles Times reporter Bob Rosenblatt in his message that Butler died suddenly over the weekend at age 83. He had a bone marrow condition called aplastic anemia, which impedes the production of blood cells.

And Butler was s sequoia whose thick branches reached out to reporters even in remote reaches of journalism. That was my experience over 25 years ago, when I was an editor at a health professions magazine trying to get a call back and a quote, and it was the experience of so very many others. I'd get my quote, all right, but more than that, I'd get an education. Bob, far from being a publicity hound, wanted to fill you in with background and other sources to interview for your story. And, if you had time and seemed interested in writing more about issues in aging, he wanted to know about you and your work.

If you didn't know or know much about Bob Butler, the basics for a lead would be: founding director of the National Institute on Aging, winner of a Pulitzer Prize (1976) for his book Being Old in America: Why Survive? Founder of the first full depart of geriatric medicine in the United States at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, founder of the International Longevity Center, pioneer with Jim Birren (with an assist from Margaret Mead) in establishing life review as an important process for older people, coiner of the term "ageism" — and so much more.

So much more: In the late 1990s I was asked by Congressional Quarterly to serve as the expert reviewer on a volume they were developing on aging as part of a series of special-topic encyclopedias. The preliminary topic list included a small number of notable people, such as Claude Pepper. I offered a number of additional names with mostly short notes on why each should be considered.

My biographical note on Bob Butler, though, wouldn't stop before I filled in a full page. And that was bare-bones. I realized that if one spread his accomplishments to a group of Butler clones the size of a basketball squad, including some benchers; each replica could be satisfied with a career of distinction. Bob Butler was the Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Kobe Bryant and Labron James of aging, all rolled up into one winning season.

Physician, man of science and humanist that he was, Bob was also a great communicator. In his senior year at Columbia University (1947-48), he was the editor of campus daily, The Spectator. Among his "freshman reporters," as he called them, were Max Frankel, later of the New York Times, and Larry Grossman, who went on to become president of both PBS and NBC News. Another of those freshman scribes was Mal Schechter, who would cover major developments in aging, such as the creation of Medicare and Medicaid, and would work with Bob to design training programs for journalists, especially what would become the annual Age Boom Academy, which has educated more than 150 reporters at the ILC headquarters in Manhattan in the past 11 years.

My standard line to people over the years was that as a journalist, I've met geniuses and I've met menschen, but Bob Butler was in that rare category of geniuses who are also wonderful human beings. My Time author and columnist Abigail Trafford e-mailed GBO a short while ago, "I always thought he would live forever." For those of us who had the privilege of knowing Bob Butler, he was and will remain a wise teacher and a warm presence in our lives.

— Paul Kleyman

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2. "GEN BEATLES NEWS"

***Toronto Star Assigns Reporter to Generations Beat:

Susan Pigg is the new hand on the new old beat at the Toronto Star. Despite what she called in an e-mail interview "incredibly depressing times in the biz," the 30-year veteran of the daily started pitching the generations beat two years ago and finally go the nod.

When Pigg first proposed the beat "there was little interest from my boss at the time. Thankfully, the new boss agreed to it about six months ago and I'm just really getting my feet on the ground." Her new generations beat is full time (or as "full" as one can expect in today's newsroom; this week she's having summer fill-in fun on breaking news).

Her account of covering age issues is a welcome throwback to pre-media-meltdown days, when age-beat newbies would typically discover, as Pigg put it, "a tremendous amount of reader feedback — more than any other beat I've done here." Her observation is a good reminder that aging media audiences are clamoring for information and perspective on their graying worlds

So far, Pigg says she's tackled a wide mix of subjects, "from research being done here at the Toronto Rehab Centre around preventing falls to boomers taking up piano later in life. I covered a course on helping boomers get ready, emotionally rather than financially, for retirement, piece on coming to terms with life's regrets, and the importance of volunteering." She just finishing a story on a pair of websites that allow seniors to offer advice, often to teens, and this week (following the Canada Day weekend), she's working on a piece on palliative care.

Pigg also taps out an occasional column called "The Middle Ages," which tend to be personal pieces, such as going back to her high school reunion, or — as a soon-to-be empty nester — "coming to terms with the kids being gone." Pigg, 52, has three kids.

Her background at the Star makes Pigg exceptionally well suited to cover the gen beat, which, after all, is a great generalist's beat. She has reported on social policy, municipal affairs, housing) and business reporter. She was appointed aviation writer four months before September 11, "which made for a rather busy two years covering that beat. She also spent eight years as an assignment editor and five as associate travel editor.

Now that she's on the gen beat, of course, her editor's want news pegs and angles. As many before her on this wide and deep topic, Pigg finds getting on top of the news to be challenging. On catching a wave on the news curve, she e-sighed, "And, yes, that so much of it is American." (Of course, those of us south of the northern border might note that much applicable news here stems from the U.S. mess of a health care system, one many reporters would trade for the Canadian one any day.)

Pigg allows that the Star has seen significant changes in the past year or two, including a new publisher and, unfortunately, a major buyout effort that has touched "people I've worked with for decades, so I find I'm in tears most weeks lately hugging someone goodbye."

GBO's editor was surprised to learn of the unusual legacy of the paper. And it's worth a quick read on Wikipedia. Robert E. Atkinson founded the paper in the late 1890s and shortly before his death in 1948, he "transferred ownership of the paper to a charitable organization given the mandate of continuing the paper's liberal tradition. Ontario's Conservative government passed a law barring charitable organizations from owning large parts of profit-making businesses. The law required the Star to be sold. The five trustees of the charitable organization circumvented the law by buying the paper themselves and swearing before the Ontario Supreme Court to continue the Atkinson Principles."

The Star's Atkinson Principles include speaking up for: "A strong, united and independent Canada; social justice, individual and civil liberties; community and civic engagement; the rights of working people, and the necessary role of government." You can compare these principles yourself, say, to those of the Hearst Corporation or Gannett.

Wikipedia notes that descendants of the Star's original owners, known as "the five families", still control the voting shares of Torstar, and The Atkinson Principles continue to guide the paper to this day. To contact Susan Pigg, her e-mail address is. SPigg@thestar.ca.

***Law Center Appoints Parkin Communications Director: The National Senior Citizens Law Center, the only national organization that is dedicated to protecting the rights of low-income older adults has hired long-time gen-beat supporter Scott L. Parkin as its first-ever director of communications. This is good news for reporters covering aging. Parkin is one of the most knowledgeable sources on who's who and what's what on aging in Washington. Over the past 20 years, Parkin has held senior level communications positions at the National Council on Aging (NCOA) and the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging. For several years, Parkin directed marketing communications for NCOA's BenefitsCheckUp, a Web service that has served 2.5 million seniors with limited incomes. In 2009, he directed communications for Elder Justice Now, a video advocacy campaign to pass the Elder Justice Act. The act, designed to protect seniors from elder abuse, passed, to the surprise and delight of many advocates for elders, as part of health reform.

Parkin will work in the NSCLC Washington office. The nonprofit group, which also has offices in Oakland and Los Angeles, advocates for older Americans with limited income and resources, as well as younger people with disabilities. NSCLC is a great news source now and then. They take on class action cases, such as the recent Martinez case, which led to a federal court settlement forcing Social Security to repay and reinstate benefits the program cut off for very impoverished people because of usually minor or mistaken outstanding arrest warrants. (Lead plaintiff Rosa Martinez, of California, for instance, lost her disability support because of a 1980 drug warrant for a Rosa Martinez in Miami, where the California Rosa had never been — and who records showed is eight inches shorter than the Miami Rosa.) NSCLC is now going after the VA, which it says is also halting aid to veterans with dubious warrants — and is even cutting off help for these soldiers' families. Stay tuned on that case and others by getting on Parkin's list. send him a note at Stay tuned on that case and others by getting on Parkin's list. send him a note at scott.parkin@ncoa.org. And visit www.nsclc.org.

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3. THE BOOK BEAT

***New York Times contributor and former staff writer Jane Gross e-mailed GBO, "I finally have a pub date on my book — May 2011. It's done and mid-edit." To be published by Knopf, the book has as "three braided stands: memoir of my family's experience the last four years of my Mom's life, how-to [information] largely embedded in the narrative and public policy about the abandonment of two generations to fend for themselves." The title is still in the "working" stage.

***Meanwhile, Paula Span continues to write the Times' "New Old Age" blog, which Gross started. Span, a veteran of 16 years at the Washington Post, also came to the subject the hard way — via direct family experience, detailed in her 2009 book, When the Time Comes: Families with Aging Parents, Their Struggles and Solutions (Springboard Books). Span noted that when Gross left the paper, "I was among several freelancers who took over in her absence, but handling a bunch of contributors became unwieldy for our overworked editor, so he asked me to take it on." She also teaches at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University and continues occasionally to write for the Post. She also is doing some author speaking gigs and is getting the autumn season going with the Saratoga Vital Aging Network in Saratoga, N.Y. Can't help but wonder if vital aging there includes a running fall fillies at the local race track to show the spring colts their future isn't all pastures (or glue).

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4. CALENDAR & RESOURCES

***Gen Beat Fellowship — Free Trip to New Orleans: Aug. 2 is the deadline to apply for the new MetLife Foundation Journalism on Aging Fellowship. A group of 14 journalists — half from the ethnic media and half from the age beat — will each receive a $1,500 stipend for their proposed projects, as well as expenses for attend the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) Annual Scientific Meeting in New Orleans the weekend before next Thanksgiving.

The GSA and New America Media (NAM) created the fellowship, in conjunction with the Journalists Network on Generations (publisher of GBO). Each Fellow will participate in a special day-long pre-conference session on Friday, Nov. 19, and at least two days of the full conference.

GSA's 2010 Annual Scientific Meeting welcomes over 3,000 gerontology professionals, and the schedule includes hundreds of symposia, papers, and poster papers featuring new research. GSA also prepares a special breakout conference program each year showing hundreds of sessions on minority concerns in aging.

Fellows will also commit to completing one short-term article or blog (at least 500 words) about any aspect of the meeting and one longer-term in-depth project of their own design. Writers/producers must also submit a one-to-two page proposal outlining an in-depth article or series that she or he intends to research and write. They will also be asked to submit a written agreement from his or her publisher/producer to run the story or stories in their media outlet. (Freelancers can have their assigning editor send the agreement.)

Proposed subjects can be in a wide range of area, such as caregiving, dementia, intergenerational activities; healthy aging (including wellness and physical activity); safety education (e.g., falls and fall prevention, health disparities, elder abuse, mental health, medication challenges, art and creativity or older-worker issues. Be creative.

The fellowship selection panel will include respected professionals both from aging and journalism. Stories (print or electronic) or multimedia packages will first be published by each Fellow's news organization and soon thereafter by NAM, as well as posted on the GSA website. Apply no later than Aug. 2, 2010 at www.geron.org/journalistfellows.

For further details about potential stories and their content, contact NAM Ethnic Elders Editor Paul Kleyman at pkleyman@newamericamedia.org, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or (415) 503-4170, ext. 133. For further details about application requirements, contact GSA Communications Manager Todd Kluss at tkluss@geron.org This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or (202) 587-2839.

***National Press Foundation Retirement Seminar Now Online: NPF assembled a stellar cast for its sixth annual "Retirement Issues in the 21st Century" event, which brought 20 journalists to Washington, D.C., June 20-23. Now the organization has posted audio recordings of the week's prime sessions online. A sample of the available sessions includes: "Health Care Reform and Retirement" presented by AARP's top public policy mover and shaker, John Rother; How to Retire Happy presented by former Washington Post financial writer, Stan Hinden, author a book by that same title; "Demographics of Aging," presented by Stephen C. Goss, Chief Actuary at the Social Security Administration; "Rethinking Retirement," by Mary Beth Franklin, Senior Editor at Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine, and "How to Save Social Security," a debate between Andrew Biggs, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, and former U.S. Representative Barbara Kennelly, President and CEO at the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare. Some other sessions were on women and retirement, the future of public pensions, retirement in the private sector and proposal legislation.

NPF does continue to receive sole funding for the program from Prudential Financial. And it is concerning that the top session listed among those available online is "Evolving Retirement Trends," presented by George Castineiras, Senior VP, Client Relations and Business Development at the corporation. NPF is clear that there is no corporate interference with its program planning, and our experience that no selected reporter has indicated over the years anything but a positive educational experience, but GBO does believe that journalists need to keep an eye on any such commercial sponsorship arrangement at this time when many entities are circling the media landscape for opportunities that are less than independent.

Meanwhile, however, we do want GBO readers to know about this fine program ands acknowledge the service that NPF has provided in training many reporters on retirement issues over the years. You can access the audio sessions at http://www.nationalpress.org/programs3516/programs_show.htm?doc_id=1206234.

***Ethnic Elders Fellowship Series Continues at New America Media (NAM): Looking for story angles — just good stories in aging? NAM is continuing to post articles produced under its NAM Ethnic Elders Fellowship program, sponsored by the Atlantic Philanthropies. The 13 journalists have been producing in-depth pieces or series that are first published by their originating media organizations and then co-published on the NAM website and made available for reposting/reprinting by ethnic or age-beat media at no cost. Here are recent examples with links to each:

3-PART SERIES

Part 1 — "Slow Death at Bad River: Diabetes in Indian Country," News from Indian Country/New America Media, News Report and Photography by Karen Hollish, Posted: Jun 25, 2010. Link: http://tinyurl.com/2a37ks6. Diabetes is epidemic on American Indian reservations, such as Wisconsin's Bad River, but the community has started to change things.

Part 2 — "Keeping Good Hearts at Bad River" — Posted: Jun 26, 2010. Link: http://tinyurl.com/26cbplv: This is the second story in a series of three explores how a Heart Watch program is trying reduce risk of cardiovascular disease among American Indians.

Part 3 — "Native American Traditions Return to Heal Diabetes," Posted: Jun 27, 2010. Link: http://tinyurl.com/3a68gfz. Health activists in Indian Country are combating diabetes with surprising weapons — traditional foods and more active lifestyles.

2-PART SERIES

Part 1 — "Filipina Nurses See Long Visa Delays Despite Nursing Shortage," New America Media/Philippine News, News Feature, Maricar C. P. Hampton, Posted: Jun 15, 2010. Link: http://tinyurl.com/2agvagv. The United States relies heavily on foreign-born eldercare workers. So why is there a virtual freeze on American visas from the Philippines?

Part 2 — "Filipino Health Workers Struggle in Filling Eldercare Gap," New America Media/Philippine News, News Feature, Maricar C. P. Hampton, Posted: Jun 16, 2010. Link: http://tinyurl.com/28g42so. Filipino nurses and health workers struggle with grueling work, but despite immigration issues fill an important gap in U.S. eldercare.

"Arizona's Neglected Immigrants — African Elders"
New America Media/PhxSoul, News Report, DaVaun Sanders, Posted: Jun 14, 2010. Link: http://tinyurl.com/27nogp3. Arizona is a hotbed for immigration issues, but concerns about aging African immigrants and refugees in Phoenix are nonexistent.

2-PART SERIES

Part 1 — "Social Security: A Hedge Against Recession for Latino Elders," La Opinion/New America Media, News Report, Araceli Martínez Ortega , Posted: Jun 09, 2010. Link: http://tinyurl.com/38wqm72. Nearly three quarter of a million California Latino elders are living in poverty and Social Security is the only thing that keeps them from homelessness.

Part 2 — "California Cuts Threaten Latino Seniors' Health, Safety" —
La Opinion/New America Media, News Report, Araceli Martínez Ortega, Posted: Jun 10, 2010. Link: http://tinyurl.com/39c355v. Proposed cuts in California's home care and community health programs would tear holes in the safety net for lower-income Latino seniors.

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5. BEAL'S BEAT

The Unwanted Senior Boom — Financial Elder Abuse

By Eileen Beal

We are in for a boom in financial exploitation and abuse of the elderly.

That was the consensus from every speaker I heard — including lawyers, social workers and law enforcement experts — at recent conference on financial elder abuse titled, "The Specter of Undue Influence and Financial Exploitation."

Old and (Relatively) Wealthy: Overall, older Americans are the wealthiest group in the United States. They benefited from the economic boom that followed World War II — much fueled by the GI Bill. Unlike their boomer kids, who have seen 30 years of stagnant wage growth, the Greatest Generation was able to save, and the vast majority owns a home. When they die, middle- and upper-class seniors will pass along their assets — increasingly through joint survivor deeds and accounts, as well as trusts that can actually make financial exploitation easier to get away with — to their boomer kids and Gen grandkids.

Important societal changes, conference speakers explained, have opened new opportunities for dipping sticky finders into the till of this wealth transfer. These include the increased life expectancy of elders; the breakdown and geographic dispersal of families; and technological changes that make financial abuse easier, such as ATMs or downloadable powers of attorneys

According to the 2009 report, "Broken Trust: Elders, Family and Finances," by the MetLife Mature Market Institute and the National Committee for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (NCPEA), financial abuse bilks older adults of $2.6 billion a year. The major targets of financial exploitation and abuse are women who live alone, have chronic medical conditions or cognitive problems, and are dependent on others for help and support.

"Not all are wealthy. They simply have assets — a mortgage-free home, a steady income from Social Security or a pension — that make them a target," stressed the conference's keynote speaker, attorney Page Ulrey, senior deputy prosecuting attorney for the Seattle area's prosecutor's office.

Financial exploiters target those with diminished mental competency and capacity. "Their ability to pay attention, process information, analyze situations or figure out what the long-term consequences will be for a given action is significantly impaired," said psychologist Lori Stevic-Rust. A nationally-recognized behavioral psychologist, Stevic-Rust often testifies in court as an expert witness in elder abuse cases.

She explained that even when vulnerable elders know the day and year, a common question asked to determine one's mental awareness, and can perform simple activities of daily living, they can't necessarily make important decisions, judgments or be able to carry out complicated activities — such as balancing a check book — that involve many steps.

Exploiters Modis Oparandi

A majority of exploiters and abusers (55 percent) are family members — most often sons — and can be paid or unpaid caregivers. Common perpetrators among non-family members are "sweethearts" (of both sexes), who prey on lonely elders. Others are unscrupulous professionals, such as accountants, bankers/tellers, financial planners, lawyers and doctors.

Those battling financial exploitation and abuse say three things make such transgressions possible — things familiar to anyone interested in crime:

• Means — "Exploiters and abusers gain the elder's trust, confidence and, often, affection. They build a special relationship with their victim," explained elder law specialist Patricia Schraff.
• Motive — "Most of the time, it is about the money," explained estate and trust lawyer Adam Fried. "But sometimes it's just greed. Or it's a sibling rivalry thing. They want to show that they have 'the power,' that they are the favorite child." (Note: See below for article by Fried on sibling rivalry.)
• Opportunity — "Financial abuse and exploitation are crimes of opportunity," said Ulrey.

Red Flags: According to trust and estate lawyer David Woodburn, friends and relatives should be alert to red flags that might signal that financial elder abuse is underway. For instance, he said, concerned people might look into a senior's situation if the elder has a new 'best friend' or if he or she has made pronounced changes their activities.

Typically, abusers will monopolize the senior's time and try to isolate them from contact with others. "That kind of fall-off in their sociability can mean someone is directing things for them," he said. Woodburn added, "If they used to talk about financial things, but now they don't, that could indicate that someone is telling them not to discuss their finances. We [lawyers] are seeing a lot of that today."

The Journalist's Role? It's all but impossible to remove motive (elders' assets) from the financial exploitation or abuse equation, and it's difficult to prosecute alleged exploiters/abusers: Often the victim is dead or demented, which, noted Stevic-Rust, makes them an unreliable witness. And frequently, despite everything that has happened, older abuse victims still say the love their exploiter.

Because of those factors, one of the toughest challenges for reporters is in seeking out incidents of elder abuse and providing readers with solid, actionable information that enables them to deter such exploitation.

Speakers at the conference, recommended the following deterrents to abuse:

• Stay connected with potential victims. "Financial abuse and exploitation occurs in the shadows, where people are isolated from those who could spot the signs that something isn't right," said Ulrey.
• Know the older person's physical and cognitive state. "Declines in both," explained Stevic-Rust, "can make them vulnerable to manipulation and exploitation."
• Help him or her understand their financial situation and the value of their assets and the exploitative situations, schemes and scams they could encounter.
• Help the older person get legal or financial help needed to draw up documents, such as trusts, powers of attorney or conservatorships (called guardianships in some states) that can deter financial exploiters.
• Report suspected cases of financial abuse to local authorities. According to the National Center on Elder Abuse anyone can report suspicious behavior and "it is up to the professionals to investigate the suspicions." See below for agencies and departments that can "investigate" allegations — including anonymous tips.

Also, getting your editor to say yes to a story on any kind of elder abuse is an uphill battle. Like many crime stories, the article is going to focus on a fairly small segment of the population — seniors — but covering them isn't as sexy as, say, car jackings.

One approach I use is to pitch these as business or finance stories: financial abuse of seniors is all about assets and money. Or pitch it as a boomer or sandwich-generation story: While they'll never admit it, boomers are counting on inheriting from their parents, so they need to know how to protect their prospects.

Or, try pitching it as a piece of service journalism for a senior section of a magazine. At least that's how I pitched my first elder-abuse story. When the editor called I knew I'd hit a home run with my query. "What you wrote is awful," she said in a wavering voice. "I bet we'll get a dozen letters on it." The publication got 15 responses. I received two sent to my home, and a heart breaking phone call.

Sources

For local information on preventing financial elder exploitation and abuse, contact your city, county or state departments of family services, aging or human services or your regional area agency on aging. Your state office of aging, often in the governor's office, should list the one for your area.

For general information, go to:

"Broken Trust: Elders, Family and Finances," http://www.metlife.com/assets/cao/mmi/publications/studies/mmi-study-broken-trust-elders-family-finances.pdf

Elder Financial Abuse: http://www.sbcounty.gov/brochures/docs/105.pdf.

Elder Justice Act: http://www.elderjusticecoalition.com/docs/Elder-Justice-Coalition-March_22_2010.pdf

National Center on Elder Abuse: www.ncea.aoa.gov

National Committee for the Prevention of Elder Abuse: www.preventelderabuse.org

National Long Term Care Ombudsman Resource Center: www.ltcombudsman.org

National Senior Citizens Law Center: www.nsclc.org

"Sibling Rivalry: A Battle Over Joint and Survivorship Bank Accounts," Adam M. Fried, Cleveland Bar Journal, 75 CBJ-10 No. 1, 2003

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The Journalists Network on Generations (JNG) publishes Generations Beat Online with in-kind support from New America Media (NAM). JNG provides information and networking opportunities for journalists covering generational issues, but not those representing services, products or lobbying agendas. NAM is an online, nonprofit news service reaching 3,000 ethnic media outlets in the United States. GBO readers are invited to visit the NAM website, www.newamericamedia.org, and click on the Ethnic Elders section logo on the right side. Opinions expressed in GBO do not represent those of NAM. Copyright 2012, JNG. For more information contact GBO Editor Paul Kleyman, pkleyman@newamericamedia.org.)

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