it is an unrealistic vision of old age. one of the great achievements of the american 20th century was reducing poverty among old people. if we don't start wising up and thinking realistically, in terms of the fantasy of what we all like our old age to be, we are going to undo that achievement. the boomers are not going to be richer than the generation before them. i should add something else. as you know, the majority of people over 85 are women, overwhelmingly. women are poorer than men. african-americans and hispanics are poorer than whites, and the gap between rich and poor ways even more heavily on the old ban on young people, because the old don't have the resources and the physical strength to go on making more money and doing things. this is going to be a bigger problem. when you are talking about what government could do, the things we need to be doing right now are thinking about a solution to save for medicare. i don't disagree that the cost of medicare is out of control. one of the terrible things is that presid

certainly the average income is lower than the other age groups over age 25. while it might sound like a substantial income, it is an average. but that means is that there are people below and above it. bringing the number of words. when you look at the break down in the second chart, the one on the bottom, showing the percentage of the population in different age groups and income groups, you will see that those 65 and over, there is a high concentration of them. much higher than for the other segments of the population. indicating that there are a large number of low-income seniors in san francisco. at the same time there are those with means and to have high incomes. but they are smaller percentage of the population. supervisor avalos: were you able to break that down by household income probably more individuals, with the say? -- would you say? >> certainly by household. for comparison, here are the other large cities in california. age 6865, with the median in those five large cities, 15% of the population over 60. whereas in san francisco, between 2006 a

and old age, also, has been very much redefined in the terms of young old age which sociologists and doctors call people in their 60s and 70s who are basically pretty healthy even if they've had all kinds of diseases like cancer and heart disease and old old age in the late 80s and 90s. the typical problems of people in old old age are down played as if 90, well, i decided to write this book when i went to a panel at the world science festival a few years ago titled "90 is the new 50th." and i thought, does anybody really believe that? and the answer is there are a lot of people in their 40s, 50s and 60s who do believe that. it's a new kind of more subtle form of ageism in that it's great to be old, as long as you don't have any of the typical problems of people who are really old. .. >> guest: they are deluded. >> host: use it to overwhelming problems of old, old age our health and working overtime which is inevitable and the tendency for most people to get more. you suggest there's collective action that we should take in response to that. what are those points. >> guest: health th

moving on to the next age population, ages 6 through 13, kindergarten through eighth grade, a lot of what we heard an hour sessions was focus on out of school time. after-school and summer programs continue to be a priority for this age group. some of the data we gathered city-wide show about 94% of students who would want access to an after-school program, there should be a slot available for them. it does not mean that the family would be satisfied with the allocation, but we feel there is a substantial amount of after school programs. however, community input and input that we are gathering paints a bleak picture. only 52% of students of this age group would have access to a publicly funded program. we are working on the many programs that do not receive public funding to understand the need there more. more need for summer programs, especially those that meet the needs of the day working family. there were types of activities, strong emphasis on academic support as well as a peer relationship building, physical activity, science, math, and reading. we also heard this age group wa

people age and die. it has never been brought to some people's attention, housing that has become vacant. she has had nothing to do with who comes into the vacancies. it is being done by the management corporation. so please, hud is difficult, very corrupt. i urge you to look into this. there is a reason these lists do not go down. nobody talks about it. if you do a survey, you would have to do it anonymously because people are afraid to speak out. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> hello, my name is karen mason. my partner turn 60 -- turns 60 next year. it took for six years to get on the section 8 program. after a few years in the program, she had to buy it to keep her apartment because section 8 wanted her to move into different housing. so we had to get doctors to talk to hud. we belong to neighborhood groups. i think it is important for everyone to live where they are comfortable. it is very important for people to be able to go to their doctors appointments and things. if it is more c

i was happy to see the report and i was happy that they used the age of 64 aging. that is the same age that the older americans act uses. also, that is a age at which people ought to start thinking about when they retire, if they have not already, if they have not gotten sick or lost their job. it is nice to see that standardized. it is 20% of our population. one thing missing in the report, they need to identify the tenderloin as a neighborhood with a high concentration of seniors. it seems to have slid into pulp gulch when they read the report. on the chip's program, we still have a more active program. i think that one certainly needs to be restored. if they got permission, they did it in residential hotels or as a rose -- as sorrows -- sros. for years we have talked about in law apartments and secondary housing. i remember supervisor thomas shea wanted to implement more housing. he found so many problems that nothing happened. but the idea of exempting certain people from some of the rental projections to rent out a better room may be a good possibility. senior

so then you age just much faster. when you keep water coming into your system, not only are you cleansing but you're plumping up the collagen underneath your skin, and you're slowing the process down. dixon: below the dermis lies the hypodermis. this is where the main sweat glands, hair follicles, and primary blood vessels of the skin reside. ifthe follicle end is anchored in the hypodermis.ez loucas: a lot of people don't think of the skin as an organ, but the skin is largest organ in your body and all of these layers in the skin all interact and are intertwined to make it an extremely efficient functioning organ. [music] dixon: regeneration of the skin slows as we age. the epidermis replaces itself every 16 days or so when we're young. but by the time we turn 35, the layer is only replacing itself once a month. loucas: what happens to your skin as you age is your skin slows down. so the production of collagen slows down. the collagen that you make is not as abundant. it's quality is less. it's frayed, it's broken. l

one is community service sponsors, aging and disability resource center. they will be continuing the work that they have done, doing a sort of our region to the community, especially limited english-speaking community, communities of color, low-income communities, as will the health insurance advocacy project. they will also continue to do a lot of the publicity through the media and so forth, that we can get the word out to those folks that do qualify for this program. that is our goal here, to try to get your support so that we can, in fact, expend this fund. this is an 18-month grant, so it will run until june 30, 2012. we do have a specific work plan that we have already set up and added to the state. so if there are any questions. supervisor avalos: just one for me. the program has already begun, so we will be accepting an expanding retroactively -- and expending retroactively. >> yes. supervisor avalos: any member of the public with a comet who would like to come forward? and we will close public comment. motion to move forward with recommendations.

but she still looks pretty for her age.n apple with plum vinegar goes to pompon, the lesser panda whose age is comparable to a 70-year-old human. this grandma has been suffering from hair loss. but -- >> translator: yes, the glow has returned to her fur. >> reporter: just like humans, old animals also suffer from arthritis. the treatment is similar. pills with a glucosamine supplement. the enriched meal is delivered to puko, the black bear. she is the equivalent age of an 80-year-old human. puko didn't come out this time. maybe she was shy. here's what she looks like. her legs have become so weak that she only moves at meal time. but her appetite keeps her alive. >> translator: just like humans, aged animals suffer from weakened legs. and feel pain when they go up and down the stairs. >> translator: they are beloved. and we hope they live long. >> translator: just like us, when they age they cannot live without extra care. >> reporter: wild animals are internationally protected these days. that means zoos are acquiring fewe

character of kilgore trout died at the age of 84 and kurt vonnegut also happened to die at the age of 84. >> what did he die from? >> he collapsed. he fell down the steps of his new york city home. he went into a coma and never came out of it. he often joked that cigarettes would kill him. he would sue the makers of pall mall of because the warning label on a cigarette package said it would kill him and they had not yet done so. that he actually happened to be smoking a pall mall of while standing -- >> next we have two pieces of artwork created by morley safer, one of our honorary board members. a close friend of kurt vonnegut. they both shared a close friend, sydney austin who wrote the introduction for the last book that came out. these two pieces of art. the first of the occasion of kurt vonnegut's birthday was created in 2003. the second was created when morley found out kurt vonnegut had died and that was in 2007. we are in the front of the kurt vonnegut libraries. we have his typewriter that was used in the 1970s and was donated to us by his daughter. he wrote many of his more

are younger at these ages then they were before. a job market that discriminates against age. we all know we're going in a new direction. you may have gotten divorced. now one income has become chopped in half. what's your advice for older women? is it too late? >> i never tell anyone it's too late. that's too depressing. the truth is though 65% of women live below the poverty level because all they are living on is social security benefits. so it's a huge problem. let's hope it continues. women probably should have more of an ear to the ground with the changes they are talking about. >> but there is one thing that older women have. that's a lifetime of skills and experience. what about starting your own business? you might not be able to get people to hire you, but i work with a lot of women entrepreneurs. there's so many businesses you can start right now with a dime. using the internet and building your skills. >> like what? what would be a good business to start? >> jewelry design. one way that i met clients is joining women's g

to have a comfortable old age. you are also seeing in terms of epidemics, an increase in alzheimer's and it is going to increase as the population increases. there are quite a few seniors who have mental health problems but they are also, the majority of seniors, who are hard-working, who had minimum wage jobs their whole lives, who paid social security. think about living on $889 a month in the city of san francisco needing to buy medication, one meal a day, hopefully, and health care. if we could provide health care early on we might prevent (inaudible) and people would be less likely to end up in the emergency room with a drastic outcome. we could actually provide prevention and health care to people who had no other way of getting health care, those without insurance, it might be more cost effecti

so what is the myth of the new old age?guest: the myth is that we are all -- and by we, i really mean people who are not old now, the aging boomers, people who are in their 50 but our old age is going to be lived in a way that's totally different from the way in which old age has been lived in the past. that we are going to all be skydiving centenarians i like to think -- >> guest: like the former president? >> guest: yeah. that we are simply going to get older but not actually old. >> host: and so why do you think the culture's invested in sugar coating old age? >> guest: well, it's very interesting. now, when i was growing up, like all of the oldest boomers in the 1950s, i would say that attitudes toward old age were negative in a particular way. old age was just something that started the minute a man retired, and he returned home to bother his wife. and her only role was to be the grandmother to her grandchildren, and that was the whole another not just of old age, but just of anybody who was retired in their 60s. now i

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all of that was going on in my mind at a very young age. what really set it off -- i had two teachers -- during february, we did it for the whole month because we figured we had been cheated out of our history of america. only two names were in the encyclopedia, and that was booker t. washington and george washington carver, but she lectured about the contribution of frederick douglass, w.e.b. dubois, and how jackie robinson had broken the baseball barrier. and we remembered the opera singer who was not allowed to sing in the hall and had to sing in lincoln center. all the discrimination and the local in justices. like, everything was separate and unequal. the school was inadequate. we could not go to the hospitals. they built a house adjacent to the main hospital. the white people were not supposed to be in the same room with an n-person. you know the n-word? i said to myself at the end of the day that i love my country and i'm glad that that day, i took a stand. i saw through the supreme court that the flaws that america had tried to corr

the method that i will take you through is based on population age structure, the distribution by ageyou can see four distributions here. this is it tunisia over on the left-hand corner. that is tunisia, 1965. pyramidal in 1990. younger than the median age of 25. 2010, the present age structure down in the left-hand corner, you can see a bulge. as opposed to above where it might be called a political scientist youth bulge, where fertility has declined on the bottom left. the cohorts in the younger years are smaller. you can read these graphs. they are basically the proportion of five-year groups in the age structure in a population. there are two bar graphs turned on their side. on a left is males, on the right, females. both economic and political demography believes that this is a shape of political and economic changes and conditions occurring through population. the middle east and north africa have been going through a fertility declines. the fertility rate is the vertical axis. on the graph are tunisia, algeria, egypt, jordan, and syria. tunisia and went through a fertility decl

, or aging services. we do have an overview from trent, i believe. >> anne is out of town, but shireen is here. >> i am the director of human services agency. i appreciate the opportunity to speak and present early in the process. as you know, it is another tough budget year. it is always welcome to be able to start the public dialogue early. to that end, but i will be presenting is a fairly high- level overview of our budget and funding in general, and then talk specifically about the cuts we have proposed to date to get into line with the mayor's directive to reduce our general fund by about 20%. there you see the mayor's budget instructions. two areas of cuts. one, 10% of our base. the second would be a 10% contingency reduction, should the city need to go to the second at 10%. i will walk through the list of cuts later in my presentation. we have brought our proposed budget to the human services commission. the commission approved the first 10% reduction. the commission did not approve the 10% general

department of aging and adult services. our program is going to be putting computers and technology -- wi technology into centers around the city for seniors. 21 senior centers in the city. six public housing sites for seniors and adults with disabilities. it supported housing sites, eight adult day health care sites. we worked with 24 different nonprofits within the senior community and discussed with them what their clients could be interested in. san francisco seniors only had 20% adoption, and this is an underserved community. a lot of the older people have to deal with isolation. what we are doing, we have nine of the nonprofits -- the recipients are going to be coming in with many volunteers to do extensive training courses at all of these locations. we are working with a lighthouse for the blind and a number of others that will also help us with the assistive technology part, but we are going from the very basics for some people, how to use a mouse, how to get on skype, answer a skype call, so you can see your grandc

he is over the age of 65 which is reportedly the happiest age-group, and he is jewish. the jewish population is happier than anyone and it doesn't hurt he lives in hawaii, known as the happiest place in the country. >> larry was pretty happy when he lived there. >> i was happier, yes. >> but sitting next to you is wonderful. charlie sheen is not on the top five. shocking. >> maybe the angriest. >> the warriors are happy they have money day ellis. -- monta ellis. he is landing three's on >>> good evening. on the road, monta ellis said the warriors had to win. the battle between him and davis with the cavaliers. we have joke sisters on the set -- joksters on the set tonight, i tell you. in cleavland and look at davis. and the steel and it goes coast to coast. third quarter and he enters the zone. hitting three after three, the steel leads to a reverse finish. very nice. he was feeling it. a career high six, three's. the warriors open a 15 point cushion and the warriors are 95-85. they are two and four on this trip that ends tomorrow in new jersey. to the ice and the shark

the work program begins for kids ages 13-17. it is very well publicized, and a lot that actually promote the programming. i can't tell you the number of applications that we got off hand, but we got a lot. the selections are made. >> for the long weekend, i know he usually has families -- it usually has families. if there was a possibility to volunteer, how do we find out how to do that? >> i wanted to share the information, but perhaps it is not ready for prime time. we want to make the camp available for families, but we also very much understand that the kids might come up without families. it will be a hybrid. >> good afternoon, commissioners. as you know, the library offers year-round support for literacy activities. with a focus on providing access and resources. also, locations in every neighborhood reference advisory and homework help. we engage our patrons and teach them how to use our resources. it is the home of a traditional summer reading program. the environmental theme is around energy. it includes weekly arts and

character of kilgore trout died at the age of 84 and kurt vonnegut also happened to die at the age of 84. >> what did he die from? >> he collapsed. he fell down the steps of his new york city home. he went into a coma and never came out of it. he often joked that cigarettes would kill him. he would sue the makers of pall mall of because the warning label on a cigarette package said it would kill him and they had not yet done so. that he actually happened to be smoking a pall mall of while standing -- >> next we have two pieces of artwork created by morley safer, one of our honorary board members. a close friend of kurt vonnegut. they both shared a close friend, sydney austin who wrote the introduction for the last book that came out. these two pieces of art. the first of the occasion of kurt vonnegut's birthday was created in 2003. the second was created when morley found out kurt vonnegut had died and that was in 2007. we are in the front of the kurt vonnegut libraries. we have his typewriter that was used in the 1970s and was donated to us by his daughter. he wrote many of his more

and product goes to older kids first and then they age downward. barbie, originally went -- was pitched at 9 to 12-year-old girls and now girls are done with barbie when they are five. little kids look at older brothers and sisters and want to be cool like they are. so for little girls right now being cool means looking hot. that's why the sort of -- and they know what hot means. >> they do know what hot means in they call it sassy or attitude but that's sexy with training wheels. >> you know, we will -- we will tyke a break. when we come back, we also known that dieting has become obsessive. we have on one hand of the spectrum we have more obese children who sit at the computers all day and pudge is getting there. on the other end of the spectrum we -- i don't think we had it when we had it, 5-0. what does that mean? the clothe comes into the room and the girl doesn't. size zero. the thinnest girl is the hottest girl and the girls know. this that's not the surprise. the surprise is. not the dieting ux it's what they are using at age 13 when we ret

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blair died last week at the age of 29. his family says the cause of death was pneumonia. the cdc says every year, 112,000 deaths with be linked to obesity. when your spokesperson drops dead at the age of 29 and he's morbidly obese, don't you have a problem? >> absolutely. who wouldn't? >> reporter: john basso owns the heart attack grill. he draszs dresses up like a doctor. >> every one of us cared about blair. >> reporter: there's an argument to be made that you used this guy in his life. now you're morbidly using his death to promote your restaurant. >> i agree. his death has gotten the message out further. >> reporter: his death has not given you pause? >> zero pause. >> reporter: he has a most unusual justification. that america needs shock therapy to cure its obesity epidemic. he says he tried other ways. he once owned jenny craig studios and several personal training studios. >> i'm saying loudly and as clearly as in business in america can, this is dangerous. >> oh, he's using it as a marketing tool. the word that leaps to mind is hypocrisy. >> reporter: you won't b