Let’s Reimagine Aging Advocacy
As I get closer to my own retirement from formal academia, I cannot help but focus more on questions about the future. One of my persistent concerns is about why it is so hard to plan in advance for our individual futures as "older" people. Similarly, it is almost impossible to get governments to consider the collective need for such planning.
My interest is piqued by a new feature article in The New York Times, titled “The Pain of Caring for a Parent Who Abused You,” by Katie Engelhart. I’m quoted in the article on the narrow topic of how filial support laws work — or more often “don’t” work. There is much to unpack in this article, as demonstrated by the almost 1,000 detailed comments from readers submitted in the first 20 hours …
