#Older Americans

[caregivervent]

New documentary on aging in America highlights continued challenges, opportunities

There’s a new documentary about aging, Aging in America: Survive or Thrive, that is airing on PBS for the month of May, which is Older Americans Month. The documentary marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of the Pulitzer-prize winning book “Why Survive? Being Old in America” by Dr. Robert Butler. While the number of Americans over the age of 65 has more than doubled during the last five…

[crratbc]

The brief’s key findings are:

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) encourages low-income people with kids to work – those without kids get a much smaller credit.

Previous EITC research has focused on younger households, but some analysts suggest an expanded childless credit could boost work among near retirees.

This study finds that raising the EITC by $1,000 would produce a modest rise in employment among single women ages 55-64.

However, this impact is much smaller than that for younger single women, perhaps because older women have higher earnings or more health limitations.

Thus, an expanded EITC would primarily benefit younger workers, though with a positive side effect for at least some older workers too.

[floridabills]

Florida Senate Bill 1062

Adult Day Care Centers

Sponsored by Ana Maria Rodriguez

Summary

Adult Day Care Centers; Excepting certain adult day care services from certain established or negotiated Medicaid reimbursement rates; requiring adult day care center operators to annually complete an 8-hour continuing education course approved by the Department of Elderly Affairs; providing that the course may be offered in person or online; providing that classroom hours spent teaching an approved course or lecturing at an approved seminar may be counted toward fulfilling an operator’s continuing education requirements, etc.

[squaredawayblog]

Homeownership for older workers and retirees is on a downward path.

[lolas-blrr]

need this so bad

[b0bthebuilder35]

This should be concerning. People over the age of 75, should not be trying to enter the workforce. These numbers aren’t based on people who are entering the workforce just because they want something to do because they’re bored. If it’s the fastest growing, it’s because they feel they have to for any number of reasons.

[brutalcomplex]

collection (2016)

[lizzygrant17]

[crratbc]

The report’s key findings are:

High inflation tends to harm older households, but the size of the impact varies due to three factors:

the extent to which income and assets keep up with rising prices;

the amount of fixed-rate debt, which declines in real terms as inflation rises; and

the extent to which households respond.

Absent any response, retirees are hurt more than near retirees as, outside of Social Security, their income is less indexed to prices and they hold less debt.

Among households that do respond, new data show that many tap assets and cut back on saving, which means more consumption today but less tomorrow.

[krumpkin]

LaSalle ( 1940 ) 😊

The LaSalle was built in the same factories as Cadillacs and was owned by General Motors . It ran from 1927 to 1940 and was seen as a way of filling a gap in the market being priced slightly lower than their Cadillacs.

[pastelfawn21]

Cozy outfit today! These leggings are so silly but I love them. They’re American apparel :3

[arcadiascherry]

me and who

[dumbgirlmiu]

Am i ruining my life or just having fun ?

[leupagus]

The thing about the "one day we will wake up to his obituary" meme

is that it's a lie.

JD Vance just turned 40. Stephen Miller is 39. Nick Fuentes is in his mid 20s and Andrew Tate in his late 30s. Tulsi Gabbard is just 43, Kash Patel is 45. And statistics (as well as your own lived experience, I'd imagine) shows that white men in their teens and twenties have veered SHARPLY right in the past ten years.

Yes, Trump will likely not outlive most of us; he's pushing eighty and is clearly in poor health. McConnell is in his 80s and retiring anyway; even Henry Kissinger, may his memory be a pox, eventually died.

But it's not so much that that's cold comfort to the elderly and the terminally ill, to the people who were and are and will be outright killed by the bastards whose obituaries we long for. It's that you cannot, if you're young and healthy, reasonably believe that when the bad ones die, more bad ones — who are your age, who are younger, and who one day will be young enough to be your grandkids — won't replace them.

Evil is old, but it's not the sole province of the elderly. Think of the classmate who delighted in being cruel to you; the twentysomething coworker who made your work life a misery; the thirtysomething friend-of-a-friend who outright scared you. None of those people were awful because they were old; they were just awful. And they won't change, and they won't stop hurting others if they have any power to do so.

We cannot be content to outlive them; we have to defeat them, now. Let's not wait.