Hillary Clinton: Addressing the Age Issue
Leave it to a challenger to make an issue of the elephant-in-the-room (and not the Republican Party kind) in this year’s presidential race: Hillary Clinton’s age. “It’s time for new leadership and a...
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Michelle Obama’s sleeveless dresses. Hillary Clinton’s pantsuits. Laura Bush’s sleek but soft pixie cut. Our recent First Ladies have created styles to suit themselves, and inspired thousands of...
View ArticleHow Hillary Clinton Wants to Help Family Caregivers
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton just made the topic of family caregiving (and the financial toll it can take on caregivers) part of the 2016 presidential election conversation, and...
View ArticleThe 2016 Democratic Platform and Older Voters
(This article was written with assistance from Richard Browdie, president and CEO of The Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging.) Last week, I wrote about what older voters would want to hear at the...
View ArticleWhat About Health Care and Alzheimer’s?
Hillary Clinton had a lot of boxes to check in her Democratic National Convention acceptance speech on July 28. For starters, she had to reintroduce herself to America, soften her image, celebrate the...
View ArticleSocial Security: Where Clinton and Trump Stand
(This is the first in a series of Next Avenue blog posts on where presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton stand on key issues of interest to Americans over 50.) Social Security is one...
View ArticleCaregivers Could Be the Real Silent Majority This Election
(This article appeared previously on Huffington Post.) There is probably not another segment of the population as large and drowning in quiet desperation as our country’s 34 million unpaid family...
View ArticlePBS FRONTLINE Election Doc ‘The Choice 2016’ Connects the Dots
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have been performing on the national stage for decades. By now, you probably you think you know more than you’d ever want to know about them. But if you watch PBS...
View ArticleFact Checking Obamacare Claims in the Debate
Most debate pundits are focusing on what Donald Trump said on the (Access Hollywood) bus and that he now won’t get off the (campaign) bus. I’ll focus on what Trump and Clinton said about the current...
View ArticleFashionable First Ladies
Michelle Obama’s sleeveless dresses. Hillary Clinton’s pantsuits. Laura Bush’s sleek but soft pixie cut. Our recent First Ladies have created styles to suit themselves, and inspired thousands of...
View ArticleHow Hillary Clinton Wants to Help Family Caregivers
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton just made the topic of family caregiving (and the financial toll it can take on caregivers) part of the 2016 presidential election conversation, and...
View ArticleHillary Clinton: Addressing the Age Issue
If presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is elected, she will be 69 at her inauguration, the same age as Ronald Reagan when he took his oath of office. (Donald Trump would be...
View ArticleThe 2016 Democratic Platform and Older Voters
(This article was written with assistance from Richard Browdie, president and CEO of The Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging.) Last week, I wrote about what older voters would want to hear at the...
View ArticleWhat About Health Care and Alzheimer’s?
Hillary Clinton had a lot of boxes to check in her Democratic National Convention acceptance speech on July 28. For starters, she had to reintroduce herself to America, soften her image, celebrate the...
View ArticleSocial Security: Where Clinton and Trump Stand
(This is the first in a series of Next Avenue blog posts on where presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton stand on key issues of interest to Americans over 50.) Social Security is one...
View ArticleCaregivers Could Be the Real Silent Majority This Election
(This article appeared previously on Huffington Post.) There is probably not another segment of the population as large and drowning in quiet desperation as our country’s 34 million unpaid family...
View ArticlePBS FRONTLINE Election Doc ‘The Choice 2016’ Connects the Dots
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have been performing on the national stage for decades. By now, you probably you think you know more than you’d ever want to know about them. But if you watch PBS...
View ArticleFact Checking Obamacare Claims in the Debate
Most debate pundits are focusing on what Donald Trump said on the (Access Hollywood) bus and that he now won’t get off the (campaign) bus. I’ll focus on what Trump and Clinton said about the current...
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