Mark Swartz
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Mark Swartz
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Aging in America News
Care | Workforce | Solutions
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Reinventing care for #OlderAmericans, one story at a time
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This kleptocracy is buried inside an infotainment complex. It is normalized through bureaucracy. But it is, at its heart, a mafia state.
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December 14, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This kleptocracy is buried inside an infotainment complex. It is normalized through bureaucracy. But it is, at its heart, a mafia state.
Call for Submissions: Intergenerational Portraits, due 12/19
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Call for Submissions
| Intergenerational Portraits: A Collab with The Legacy Project | Every older person in your community has a story worth telling—stories of resilience, transformation, adventure, and wisdom earned …
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December 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Call for Submissions: Intergenerational Portraits, due 12/19
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As #ChildCare programs face staff shortages, leaders are testing new ways to recruit and retain the teachers families depend on.
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Inside the Race to Hire and Retain America’s Early Educators
As child care programs face staff shortages, leaders are testing new ways to recruit and retain the teachers families depend on.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
As #ChildCare programs face staff shortages, leaders are testing new ways to recruit and retain the teachers families depend on.
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"Inviting compassion into the bloodstream of an institution's agenda or a scholar's purpose is more than productive, more than civilizing, more than ethical, more than humane; it's humanizing." -- #ToniMorrison, "The Price of Wealth, The Cost of Care," 2013
November 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
"Inviting compassion into the bloodstream of an institution's agenda or a scholar's purpose is more than productive, more than civilizing, more than ethical, more than humane; it's humanizing." -- #ToniMorrison, "The Price of Wealth, The Cost of Care," 2013
" #MauriceSendak brought the scary, thrilling, perverse world of fairy tales and folktales to modern picture books"
“It is terribly hard for books to compete with video on demand, for children as for adults. Between streaming services, TikTok, audiobooks, iPads, video games, and voice-operated systems like Siri, anything more than basic literacy seems poised for irrelevancy.”
Speak and Sell | Sophie Pinkham
The siren song of Ms. Rachel cannot be understood outside of America’s ongoing impoverishment of families.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
" #MauriceSendak brought the scary, thrilling, perverse world of fairy tales and folktales to modern picture books"
Longevity should unite us in a shared project of human flourishing. aginginamerica.news/2025/11/02/l...
Closing the Longevity Gap
| If we’re not growing older together, we’re doing it wrong. | Mark Swartz | Advances in medical research, preventive care, and age-related treatments promise to extend not just our li…
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November 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Longevity should unite us in a shared project of human flourishing. aginginamerica.news/2025/11/02/l...
Jack DeJohnette (RIP) with John Surman on Italian TV youtu.be/M_kHwfJHftU?...
John Surman & Jack DeJohnette live Capolinea club Milan 1980
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October 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Jack DeJohnette (RIP) with John Surman on Italian TV youtu.be/M_kHwfJHftU?...
A Billy Joel biopic about the making of "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)." Who's in?
October 24, 2025 at 12:44 AM
A Billy Joel biopic about the making of "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)." Who's in?
Reinventing care for #OlderAmericans, one story at a time
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Aging in America News
Care | Workforce | Solutions
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October 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Reinventing care for #OlderAmericans, one story at a time
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I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Silver Spring” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
NO KINGS Silver Spring · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.**
Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...
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October 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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This is amazing I say this with my utmost respect but this would be the result if Richard Avedon had photographed Chickens 💙
October 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This is amazing I say this with my utmost respect but this would be the result if Richard Avedon had photographed Chickens 💙
October 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Narratives can be built with the same rigor brought to product development.
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We Keep Rolling Out Good Ideas Without the Story. That’s Why They Stall
Uncapher and Kendall-Taylor: The education sector spends billions designing programs but spends almost nothing to help people understand what they do.
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October 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Narratives can be built with the same rigor brought to product development.
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What Is Care?
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September 28, 2025 at 10:26 PM
What Is Care?
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#PrivateEquity is harming older Americans
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What Does Private Equity Mean for Aging Services?
| Allison Cook Experts in the field of aging are increasingly concerned by a new trend – private equity’s growth in a number of sectors involved in delivering services to older adults. What does th…
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September 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
#NursingHome data that impact the $191 billion that goes into the nursing home or Continuing Care Retirement Community system each year.
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Crunching the Nursing Home Data
| Q&A with Eric Goldwein | Eric Goldwein, MPH, of 320 Consulting has developed a new tool to track nursing home staff data. On Friday, October 3, Steve Gurney of Positive Aging Community and Ro…
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September 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
#NursingHome data that impact the $191 billion that goes into the nursing home or Continuing Care Retirement Community system each year.
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“I still feel so WRONG for leaving her when she is in this vulnerable state."
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Listening to Reddit
| Mark Swartz | You can learn a lot from Reddit about the stress and anxiety of caregiving in America today. These lightly edited snippets from the Caregiver Support and Eldercare communities displ…
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September 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
“I still feel so WRONG for leaving her when she is in this vulnerable state."
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Quotes on care from Nell Noddings, Carol Gilligan, Barbara Katz Rothman, Leslie Kern, and Emily Kenway
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Five Feminist Quotes on Care
From an abandoned research project
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September 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Quotes on care from Nell Noddings, Carol Gilligan, Barbara Katz Rothman, Leslie Kern, and Emily Kenway
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The 15-minute city concept "bears a strong resemblance to decades-old feminist calls for urban planning that prioritizes mixed-use space, the proximity of home and work, and effective public transportation." From Leslie Kern.
Are 15-Minute Cities Feminist Cities? - Gender Policy Report
Can the “15-minute city” solve the challenges faced by women? Feminist urban planning interventions offer a wealth of solutions to contemporary urban problems.
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December 5, 2024 at 5:13 PM
The 15-minute city concept "bears a strong resemblance to decades-old feminist calls for urban planning that prioritizes mixed-use space, the proximity of home and work, and effective public transportation." From Leslie Kern.
#KidsonCampus offers families access to affordable high-quality, early learning opportunities for children, and it gives future teachers at #CommunityColleges opportunities to get authentic classroom experience.
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Bringing Head Start to College
Kids on Campus aims to increase the number of Head Start programs on community college campuses to remove child care barriers for student parents.
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September 5, 2025 at 1:27 PM
#KidsonCampus offers families access to affordable high-quality, early learning opportunities for children, and it gives future teachers at #CommunityColleges opportunities to get authentic classroom experience.
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Part 2 of my story for #aginginAmericaNews on tech and caregiving is live:
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Technology and Caregiving
| II. Perils, Inequities, and Solutions | Liz Seegert In part I of this feature, Seegert highlighted new data about the crisis in family caregiving. Like it or not, technology is coming for the U.S…
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August 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Part 2 of my story for #aginginAmericaNews on tech and caregiving is live:
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