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Hello Oprah - An Elder Advocate's Appeal

The last time Oprah Winfrey was mentioned on my blog was the occasion of the launch of her magazine O in 2005. With the exception of single, short paragraphs from Maya Angelou and Linda Ellerbee who had some wise words about growing old, the 320 pages of that first issue overflowed with stories and advertisements promoting youth and beauty reinforcing, as I wrote in 2005, “our ageist culture’s demand to put a bag over our heads when the first wrinkle appears.”  Read more >

The Supreme Court Abortion Decision

A Supreme Court ruling on 18 April 2007, upheld a law banning late-term abortion with no provision for the health of the mother. In addition, the law is so broadly written that many legal experts believe it leaves the door wide open for individual states to further restrict abortion. Many already have by making life so dangerous for physicians who performed abortions that there is no clinic or hospital within hundreds of miles that will do it. You may think, because old women are past child-bearing age, that this is not an elder issue. You would be wrong because:  Read more >

Dr. Kane Answers Questions on Long-Term Care

A couple of weeks ago, I posted a story about a remarkably good book about long-term care: It Should Be This Way: The Failure of Long-Term Care. One of it's authors, Dr. Robert L. Kane, agreed to take questions from readers. I also posted the story on my blog, Time Goes By. Here are his answers:  Read more >

A Blast From the Past – the E.R.A.

Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification. Lost in the brouhaha last week in the matter of Kathy Sierra, was an announcement that federal and state lawmakers are launching a new drive to pass the Equal Rights Amendment proposed in 1972. What a blast from the past.  Read more >

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