Aging

  • Everybody’s Studying Us (Number 2)

    Bea Frankel discusses San Francisco poet and playwright Irene Paull’s book “Everybody’s studying us: the ironies of aging in the Pepsi Generation.” Bea talks with two people from the California Association for Older Americans, Helen Boelke [sp?], program coordinator, and Jack Kaufman, staff writer for the Association, about the organization, why they published the book,…

  • Everywomanspace: October 4, 1982

    Aircheck of Everywomanspace episode hosted by Angela Gilliam. The fourth in a series of programs that examines provocative issues that have an impact on women and men in the human family. Guests are Jane Benedict of the Metropolitan Council on Housing and Elba Cabrera, editor of the newsletter of the Hispanic Arts Service Organization. The…

  • Democracy Now! July 25, 1997

    Campaign Finance Hearings; Inside the FBI; Gay Rights |(14 Minutes) Highlights from yesterday’s Senate Government Affairs hearing on Campaign Finance Abuses. Former GOP Party chairman Haley Barbour’s testimony (19 Minutes) Inside the FBI GUEST: David Burnham, investigative journalist whose explosive reporting is in the August edition of The Nation. (17 Minutes) Gay Rights GUEST: Kerry…

  • Democracy Now! July 28, 1997

    Goodbye to Justice Brennan; Goodbye to Grandmother Goodman; Campaign Finance |Goodbye to Justice Brennan Look at life and career of Supreme Court justice William Brennan who died last week at the age of 91. GUEST: Joshua Rosencrantz, co-editor of Reason and Passion, Justice Brennan’s Enduring Influence. Goodbye to Grandmother Goodman Amy Goodman remembers her grandmother,…

  • Look Me In The Eye: Old Women, Aging, And Ageism / Barbara Macdonald; Produced By Ginny Z. Berson.

    Reel 1 of an Autobiographical sketch by the co-author of a collection of essays about growing old as a woman (published by Spinsters Ink.), Barbara MacDonald, discusses the course she and Cynthia Rich (co-author) have taken while encountering the obstacles of invisibility, poverty, fear of death, and alienation. MacDonald refuses to be dismissed as useless,…

  • Home alone : housing for an aging society / produced by Harriet Baskas and Reel Women Productions.

    Documentary which explores the widening housing options being developed for our aging society, including: homesharing, assisted living, and designs for houses that age with their occupants.|HOME ALONE : HOUSING FOR AN AGING SOCIETY / produced by Harriet Baskas and Reel Women Productions. – SERIES: Space is the place| no. 2 – Documentary which explores the…

  • Vision of aging / produced by Chris Lauterback.

    Highlights from a seminar on the humanities and the aging sponsored by the Gray Panthers and the Center for Humanities.

  • How terribly strange to be 70 / produced by Marc Spector.

    Documentary on growing old in American society.

  • How terribly strange to be seventy / produced by Jan Legnitto.

    Old people in our society are treated like members of an alien race rather than as fellow human beings who have simply lived longer than the rest of us. This program explores how some of them feel about the youth culture, women’s liberation, the generation gap, politics, medicare, sex, and death. Produced by Jan Legnitto…

  • Can we increase the useful lifespan / Hardin Jones.

    Medical physics professor at U.C. Berkeley discusses the aging process.|CAN WE INCREASE THE USEFUL LIFESPAN / Hardin Jones. – Medical physics professor at U.C. Berkeley discusses the aging process. – RECORDED: 3 Feb. 1959. BROADCAST: KPFA, 22 Mar. 1959.