http://www.ilcusa.orgCurrent ILC-USA and topical news on ageism.ENhttp://www.ilcusa.orginfo@ilcusa.orginfo@ilcusa.org May 2, 2010U.S. News & World Report reviews the impending 2010 health reform provisions of particular interest to older consumers. http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/250-medicare-checks-highlight-2010-reforms263.php2263 November 1, 2009 Are we getting the hard facts, or scare tactics and/or a gloss, in the health reform debate?http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/just-the-facts-please255.php2255 August 17, 2009Barack Obama's proposed plan for health care has many advocates for senior rights hopping mad. http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/obamacare-is-it-ageist251.php6251 August 20, 2009As the debate over health care reform continues, we at the International Longevity Center are pleased that provisions to cover counseling for late life planning is included in parts of the House and Senate bills.http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/alert-on-late-life-planning-in-the-health-care-debate252.php6252 April 19, 2009The Bureau of Labor Statistics finds that, on average, laid-off workers ages 45 and over were out of work 22.2 weeks in 2008, compared with 16.2 weeks for younger workers.http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/hard-times-for-job-hunting-boomers247.php5247Wednesday, December 19, 2007The lump of labor theory posits that the economy has a fixed number of jobs available and that employment of one group — for example, older people — means unemployment of another. Among economists, however, the theory is widely debunked. http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/the-fallacy-of-the-lump-of-labor140.php3140 March 15, 2009 The Wall Street Journal reports that age discrimination claims are increasing at a higher percentage -- a walloping 29% --  then overall employment discrimination complaints, which are up 15%.  http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/age-discrimination-claims-soar-in-troubled-economy243.php2243 February 22, 2009Advocate strives to inspire adult children to be more aware of the experiences their aging parents have in transition.http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/43-year-old-man-moves-to-a-retirement-community240.php2240 January 20, 2009Jan Cannon's Now What Do I Do? The Woman's Guide to a New Career, published by Capital Books, offers advice to women seeking to reinvent themselves or re-enter the workplace after the age of 40.http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/now-what-do-i-do-career-transition-tools-advice-for-40-women239.php2239 December 14, 2008 According to the Daily News, New York Yankees' manager Brian Cashman has narrowly avoided perpetrating ageist acquisition tactics.http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/when-is-35-old238.php2238 Monday, November 17, 2008Similar to the emotions aroused in abused women, abused elders often erroneously imagine that they are to blame.http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/abused-elders-often-take-the-blame235.php2235 Sunday, October 25, 2008 Given the current economic crisis, many older adults are choosing to go back to work, rather than retire. http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/older-adults-pounding-the-pavement233.php2233 Monday, October 6, 2008 The Economist recently sat down with the ILC's President & CEO Dr. Robert Butler, interviewing him for their Democracy in America blog. The magazine wanted to know — in “very real medical terms” — how McCain’s age might affect his presidency and how much ageism is a factor in this election.http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/how-much-is-ageism-a-factor-in-the-election232.php2232 Wednesday, September 10, 2008 The New York Times is looking for the "little things people say or do that irritate you or make you feel diminished or sectioned off from productive society."http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/tell-ithe-new-york-timesi-about-your-brush-with-ageism225.php2225Sunday, August 24, 2008The Economist recently sat down with the ILC's President & CEO Dr. Robert Butler, to interview him for their Democracy in America blog. The magazine wanted to know -- in “very real medical terms” how McCain’s age might affect his presidency and how much ageism is a factor in this election. http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/ilc-ceo-talks-to-the-economist-on-ageism-the-election220.php2220 Monday, August 25, 2008 A major Hollywood talent agency, International Creative Management Inc., has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by some 150 television writers who claimed they were discriminated against on the basis on their age.http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/hollywood-talent-agency-sees-writing-on-wall222.php2222 Thursday, August 14, 2008 In one recent poll, 20% of voters said they would be less likely to vote for McCain on the basis of his age alone.http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/how-much-does-mccains-age-matter219.php2219 Monday, July 7, 2008Dara Torres, age 41, makes the Olympic swim team, and history, by winning the 100-meter freestyle. http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/old-lady-or-hot-mama207.php2207 Wednesday, July 30, 2008An Adecco USA survey finds age to be the top form of discrimination at the office.http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/age-1-form-of-discrimination-at-the-office218.php2218 Sunday, July 20, 2008A new blog called How Not to Act Old satirizes our youth obsessed culture.http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/how-not-to-act-old208.php2208 Tuesday, January 15, 2008 The documentary Andrew Jenks, Room 335, which airs tonight on Cinemax, records the lives of the residents of Harbor Place, an assisted-living facility in Florida, as seen through the eyes of a 19-year old.http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/film-student-shacks-up-with-seniors-to-make-documentary150.php2150 Tuesday, April 9, 2008A new documentary titled Young@Heart turns the stereotype of aging as equivalent to becoming an "old fuddy-duddy" on its head. The movie offers up a version of old age in which elders stay engaged with life through the challenge of making music -- rock music, that is.http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/still-crazy-after-all-these-years188.php2188 Sunday, June 22, 2008 Newsweek’s Daniel Gross reports in his column “The Money Culture” that 80 is new the 50 in the corporate world. http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/is-80-really-the-new-50206.php2206 Saturday, May 17, 2008 A study conducted by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) at the request of two U.S. senators who are pushing for increased penalties for nursing home violations has cited widespread understatement of nursing home deficiencies.http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/widespread-oversights-in-nursing-home-monitoring-reported198.php2198 Monday, May 26, 2008 Brett Anningson’s “Social Studies” column, in today’s edition of the Canada's Times & Transcript, serves as a reminder that ageism is not always directed at those toward the upper end of their lifespans. http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/the-case-against-reverse-ageism200.php2200 Saturday, June 7, 2008Despite assaults made on his age by Democratic challenger Robert E. Andrews, Lautenberg easily took the Democratic primary away from the 50-year-old last Tuesday, and will seek his fifth term in the Senate this November.http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/lautenberg-lords-it-over-34-year-younger-opponent203.php2203Sunday, June 1, 2008 Wired Science, the scientific news Web site and digital companion to Wired Magazine, recently asked readers to think about whether Europe's mandatory retirement age of 65 was slowing down scientific discovery.http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/is-forced-retirement-slowing-scientific-discovery201.php2201 Thursday, April 24, 2008Democratic strategist Steve Rosenthal has just started a "Younger than McCain" blog and produced a video "just for fun" that delights in a show-and-tell of things younger than the Republican presidential hopeful. http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/just-for-fun-new-blog-aims-at-mccains-age196.php2196 Thursday, May 1, 2008 The International Federation on Ageing (IFA) has completed a report entitled “Age-Related Policies: A Global Review on Age Discrimination Legislation,” which reviews age discrimination in eight countries: Argentina, Australia,Canada, Jamaica, Japan, South Africa, United Kingdom, and the United States.http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/international-review-of-age-discrimination-policies-released197.php2197 Friday, April 18, 2008 New research finds that ageist language in the workplace has a negative impact on employee health and productivity, as well as corporate profits.http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/words-that-hurtE28094-in-more-ways-than-one194.php2194 Friday, November 9, 2007 In connection with the opening of Ithaca College's Linden Center for Creativity and Aging, John A. Krout, Ph.D., calls for a new perspective on aging — one which recognizes that with old age comes not only wisdom, but new skills and creativity in the arts. Dr. Krout is Professor of Gerontology and Director of the Gerontology Institute at Ithaca College.http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/linden-center-for-creativity-and-aging-heralds-new-perspective-on-aging118.php2118 Sunday, July 22, 2007In The New York Times Magazine, Jack Rosenthal considers what to call the millions of older adults living longer and better, in reasonably good health and with enough resources to escape the stigma and poverty long associated with aging. http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/ithe-new-york-timesi-ponders-the-politically-correct-term-for-older-adults50.php250 Monday, September 17, 2007There is a notable lack of elderly in clinical trials designed to test the safety and efficacy of the very medications and treatments they are the prime recipients of, according to a recent report by Susan J. Landers for the American Medical Association. http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/elderly-routinely-excluded-from-clinical-trials94.php294 Thursday, September 20, 2007Research just published in our report "Myths of the High Medical Cost of Old Age and Dying" shows that, despite public perception, health care costs associated with aging are limited in scope and expense. http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/population-aging-not-a-determinant-of-rising-health-care-costs51.php251 Wednesday, October 3, 2007Over one hundred Columbia, Missouri high school students gathered on October 3rd for the high school's "Speak Your Mind" forum on ageism. http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/high-school-students-speak-their-minds111.php2111 Wednesday, October 24, 2007After a stroke left Newsday's Saul Friedman partially paralyzed, his eyes opened to the reality that aging disabled people are disproportionately discriminated against. http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/niche-discrimination-the-disabled-aged114.php2114 Tuesday, October 30, 2007William Neikirk, senior correspondent to the Chicago Tribune and ILC-USA Age Boom Academy alumnus, reports on the status of the Elder Justice Act which, for the past five years, has been quietly languishing on Capitol Hill. http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/elder-abuse-bill-gathering-dust117.php2117 Thursday, December 27, 2007The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has passed a new regulation allowing employers to reduce or eliminate health benefits for retirees when they turn 65 and can be covered by Medicare.http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/eeoc-greenlights-health-benefit-cuts-for-retirees144.php2144 Tuesday, November 20, 2007Erdman Palmore, Ph.D., editor of The Encyclopedia of Ageism, discusses the ubiquity of people trying to "pass" for younger as a sad reaction to the prevalent ageism in our society.http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/healthy-behaviors-vs.-age-denials120.php2120 Thursday, November 29, 2007In an effort to motivate them to improve patient care, 54 nursing homes have been cited by the government as being the worst performing in their states.http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/government-names-nations-worst-nursing-homes127.php2127 Tuesday, December 4, 2007More and more women age 50 and over, as well as some men, are letting nature take its course and allowing their hair to go gray. http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/gray-matters129.php2129 Wednesday, December 12, 2007 The House has voted to raise the retirement age for commercial pilots from age 60 to age 65. If passed by the Senate, this would overturn a 50-year-old policy and bring the U.S. in line with international standards.http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/pilots-may-soon-add-five-years-to-their-careers136.php2136 Friday, January 4, 2007Errors in drug administration, and adverse reactions to drugs, account for an estimated 100,000 deaths a year, making prescription drugs among the top ten causes of death in the United States, with older Americans consuming 40% of all medicines. http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/drug-safety-the-older-person146.php2146 Thursday, January 10, 2007 A University of Arizona communications professor who studies family relationships says those who have "healthy" relationships with their grandparents tend to have better perceptions about aging.http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/to-learn-how-to-age-gracefully-study-your-grandparents149.php2149 Friday, January 18, 2007The popular NBC sitcom "The Office" takes on age discrimination in an episode about bringing their work processes into the 21st century.http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/popular-sitcom-pokes-funs-at-workplace-age-discrimination152.php2152 Friday, January 25, 2007A recent New York Times article centers around a bestselling self-help book which summons its female readers to save their jobs by slowing the signs of aging.http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/must-women-resort-to-botox-to-keep-their-jobs154.php2154 Wednesday, January 30, 2008Few of us recognize the many sources of ageism in our culture.http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/the-pervasive-sources-of-ageism156.php2156 Thursday, February 21, 2007Last night, David Letterman delivered a series of one-liners about John McCain, which all seemed to center around his age.http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/knee-slapper-or-low-blow165.php2165 Friday, February 29, 2008There’s a blog now for just about everyone and so-called "elderbloggers” are no exception— long since having come out of the closet and into their own. http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/elderbloggers-a-cyberforce-to-be-reckoned-with170.php2170 Thursday, March 6, 2008Given the aging of the baby boom generation, the United States must prepare with all due haste to address the critical shortage of academic geriatricians. http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/calling-all-would-be-geriatric-physicians174.php2174 Friday, March 14, 2008New research debunks the myth that, as people age, they become more conservative. http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/cant-teach-old-dogs-new-tricks-think-again.178.php2178 Friday, March 21, 2008In an effort to formally recognize our elders as a protected class with the same inalienable rights to freedom, justice and peace as any other member of the human race, the ILC-CEO is working with Yale Law School Clinic to prepare a Declaration of the Rights of Older Persons.http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/declaration-of-the-rights-of-older-persons179.php2179 Wednesday, April 16, 2008 Lynn Peters Adler is the Founder and Director of the National Centenarian Awareness Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing role models for positive aging and to honoring America’s eldest citizens. As our honored guest blogger, she implores Americans to embrace a new paradigm of positive aging.http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/ageism-is-so-last-century193.php2193 Friday, March 28, 2008 Aging Well Magazine's Winter 2008 issue cover story examines the insidious nature of ageism in the healthcare industry.http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/what-your-doctor-wont-say-to-your-face184.php2184 Monday, February 11, 2007 Elderly voters – especially elderly voters who live in long-term care settings – are at the mercy of others when it comes to exercising their right to vote,http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/mobile-polling-gains-momentum162.php2162 Friday, August 3, 2007The "Third Age" refers to the stage in a person’s life where one seeks fulfilment and self-actualization, while remaining self-reliant, independent, and active. http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/council-for-third-age-formed-in-singapore112.php2112 Friday, November 9, 2007 The Supreme Court sends a signal that employees who claim job discrimination, based on age or otherwise, should not be made to suffer because of mistakes made by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/age-bias-comes-before-supreme-court-eeco-feels-heat119.php2119 Wednesday, December 12, 2007AARP Magazine picks the top 50 companies that value older workers.http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/aarp-names-2007s-top-50-employers-for-older-adults137.php2137 Monday, December 24, 2007 New Hampshire-based Freudenberg-NOK, an industrial and automotive manufacturer, has been accused of "blatant disregard for the rights of older workers" by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.http://www.ilcusa.org/pages/media_items/n.h.-company-accused-of-blatant-age-discrimination142.php2142