As someone who's aging myself, and with a pre-existing disability that affects my mobility, the thing I worry most about (at least for financial issues) is being able to afford the care I'm likely to need in the coming years, despite being frugal my whole life to have a nest egg for final expenses.
This literally took my breath away. Do you KNOW how big a deal this is? Aging-in-place, at home, is the BEST way to care for a senior with dementia. But can I tell you how much it cost to hire care for my mother at home, even shitty care in a low-cost market (Eastern Iowa)? $14,000 A MONTH.
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris announced a plan to expand healthcare benefits to cover at-home senior care in an interview on ABC's "The View" program on Tuesday, the latest policy proposal in her effort to boost the "care economy" and lower healthcare costs.
Our new paper takes you Inside the funhouse mirror factory and explains how social media distorts perceptions of norms 0.1 % of users share 80% of fake news! A tiny proportion of bad actors cause most of the problems and distort the social norms. sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I saw that "why aren't the youths reading?" Atlantic article re-shared 8 gazillion times in the last week. Here's a response from the English teacher interviewed in the article: "The Atlantic Did Me Dirty." cmsthomas.substack.com/p/the-atlant...
Early this summer I was interviewed by Rose Horowitch, an editor for The Atlantic. She told me that she had heard from a university professor that incoming students were struggling to keep up with the...
UPDATED: My blog post on the problems and complaints at Australian pay-to-play publisher Shawline Publishing, which sought to dodge bad press by re-branding, but has now gone into liquidation writerbeware.blog/2024/09/13/f...
NOTE: Shawline/New Found Books has gone into liquidation. See the updates to this post. I first heard of Australia-based Shawline Publishing in 2021, thanks to a question from an author whoâd been off...
If you're on Instagram, check out heidiwranglescats. She does a lot of tnr, and she shares suggestions for new trappers. Also, it's just a fun account.
With the exception of one cat who loved cantaloupe (seriously), my cats (quite a few over the years) have never been very interested in human food. Not cheese, not tuna, not chicken/turkey. Nothing. I'd gotten used to it, never cover food, so a temporary cat took me unawares by liking human food.
Wow! This is great. Love that one of the beneficiaries of RtV, Voteriders was also in the list.
Exciting news this morning: Romancing the Vote was chosen as a Democracy Hero alongside some EXTRAORDINARY organizations doing incredible work. THANK YOU ALL! We did this together! www.msnbc.com/know-y...
The honorees are trailblazers, advocates, organizers and changemakers around the U.S. who are ensuring all marginalized voters have a seat in our democracy.Â