Mark Swartz

" #MauriceSendak brought the scary, thrilling, perverse world of fairy tales and folktales to modern picture books"

"The attrition of the VA workforce in the last nine months has put a strain on understaffed hospitals and clinics, hurt morale and sped up the transition to private care."

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…

Longevity should unite us in a shared project of human flourishing. aginginamerica.news/2025/11/02/l...

Care Top 5, late Oct. 2025 Wisdom from Recent (except for one) Books

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YouTube video by rendarte piaz John Surman & Jack DeJohnette live Capolinea club Milan 1980

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A Billy Joel biopic about the making of "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)." Who's in?

Aging in America News Care | Workforce | Solutions

Reinventing care for #OlderAmericans, one story at a time
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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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Donate to Support Montgomery Blair Families in Crisis, organized by Blair Unida This GoFundMe is for students at Montgomery Blair High School (Silver Spring M… Blair Unida needs your support for Support Montgomery Blair Families in Crisis

Your generosity supports #MontgomeryBlair families in #SilverSpring
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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 💙

Read more about #RichardAvedon and Aging
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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.

Narratives can be built with the same rigor brought to product development.
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What Is Care?
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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…

#PrivateEquity is harming older Americans
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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…

#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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“The Defining Economic Opportunity of our Time” | Q&A with Next50’s Peter Kaldes | Next50 is a private foundation based in Denver, Co., and devoted to “creating a world that values aging.” Aging in America News spoke to President and CEO Pet…

"Culture changes when stories change."
--Peter Kaldes, Next50
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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…

“I still feel so WRONG for leaving her when she is in this vulnerable state."
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Five Feminist Quotes on Care From an abandoned research project

Quotes on care from Nell Noddings, Carol Gilligan, Barbara Katz Rothman, Leslie Kern, and Emily Kenway
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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.

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.

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.

#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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John Berger on Stories and children and tyranny

Any #JohnBerger fans out there?
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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…

Part 2 of my story for #aginginAmericaNews on tech and caregiving is live:

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Mitigating the Harm | Four Medicaid Solutions for States | Allison Cook | The One Big Beautiful Bill Act was signed into law in earlier this month. It includes Medicaid measures that will harm older adults and their c…

How should states respond to drastic Medicaid cuts? Four solutions: aginginamerica.news/2025/07/28/m...

"Pearls of wisdom... is a cliché that doesn’t hold up, because pearls don’t just get handed to you. You got to dig for ’em. You might end up with a pearl of wisdom if you actually have a developing relationship with somebody." --David Greenberger aginginamerica.news/2025/07/22/b...

Chelsea Clinton: Supporting Families Where They Are Matters for Early Childhood Chelsea Clinton reflects on impact, lessons learned and what lies ahead for Too Small to Fail, an initiative supporting families with early learning.

#TooSmalltoFail
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How TV Trained Us to Be Conspiracy Theorists

"Conspiracy stories make the world seem more sinister and opaque but also more sensible. Like religious myths, they offer an explanation for bad things happening."
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Profiles in Care | Dr. Ellie believes ‘there’s no such thing as other people’s children’ Dr. Elizabeth "Ellie" Erickson uses her position as a pediatrician to help nurture bonds between parents and children through reading.

“The truth is, if we want to take care of the kids, we have to take care of their parents.”
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blarch's Review of 'Suntub' by ML Buch Far be it for me to moan about people wishing for more Fleshless hands and less interludes - let it be known I am also impatient and need immediacy all the goddamn time - but is that really all that m...

"Do you complain about birds walking on ground because they're more majestic when they fly?"
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