| WETA ACTION SERIES: Growing Older | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 11289 |
| Catalog #: | 491527 | |
| Clip Number: | 491527-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 61-7032 | |
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| Year Shot: | 1989 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | AGE GROUP/SENIORS: Misc | |
| Description: | WETA "ACTION SERIES: GROWING OLDER" IN 07.29.16-WETA credit/funding credits/opening animation/titles 07.30.12-Host with panel to discuss AGING. 07.31.31-video segment, older man talks about being laid off his job because of his age. Other aging people talk about financial and employment hardships faced by SENIOR CITIZENS. Shots of senior citizens in Washington city streets. Shots of a support meeting for older job applicants to get assistance. 07.37.57-Host introduces panel discussion on AGING and SENIOR CITIZEN ISSUES. Discussion of whether AGE DISCRIMINATION exists in the job market. Discussion of ways that nonprofits, employers, and other agencies could collaborate to keep SENIOR CITIZENS working. Much complaint about the brutal ways in which corporate America uses the services of people for years and then spits them out into early retirement when they no longer seem "productive". 08.09.59-Discussion of isolation and hardship among SENIOR CITIZENS. An elderly widow talks about the death of her husband. Shots of this woman in her home, doing daily business. Shots of this woman after entering a group home for seniors. 08.12.40-discussion of the scope of problem of poverty and isolation, many older widows who live alone. Discussion of American cultural tendency to discard and abandon the elderly versus families in other countries. Host notes that only teenagers have higher suicide rates than the elderly, also high rate of ALCOHOLISM among the ELDERLY. 08.25.15-Titles show contact information to receive WETA information packet on aging. 08.26.15-Closing credits/WETA credit/funding credits/ r 08.28.04-OUT | |
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