Description: Brookline farmers' market. People buying produce. Many bins of vegetables displayed. Customers are mostly elderly. Interview with farmer.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/19/1979
Description: Interview with Buckminster Fuller. He discusses his work with gang members in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, teaching them the mathematics to build geodesic domes. He discusses the way the United States treats older people and medical treatment. He talks about human potential, productivity, and the ability to receive and process information. He discusses paranormal ideas and scientific discoveries. He talks about his daughter who died when she was four. He says that he has no fear of death. He talks very quickly throughout the interview. Reporter Art Cohen poses for cutaways and reasks several of the questions after the interview.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/10/1977
Description: CRISIS OF RAPIDLY RISING COST OF ELDERLY CARE. Richard Rowland, Secretary of Elder Affairs.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/12/1987
Description: Chip Faulkner and Jim Braude address advocates for the elderly in Worcester on merits and drawbacks of CLT tax rollback petition. Panorama and downtown street in Worcester.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/21/1990
Description: Silber, Murphy, Bellotti speak at Middlesex News forum on elder issues. They rehash Silber's remark on rationing health care for the elderly. Audience of senior citizens.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/27/1990
Description: State House hearing on legalized gambling. Sen. Francis Doris favors permitting Beano at elderly housing projects. Lt. Gov. Tom O'Neill opposes casino gambling; wants feasibility study of off-track betting. Rep. Mary Jeanette Murray opposes casino proposed for Hull; wants 25¢ from each lottery ticket to be earmarked as Social Security supplement for elderly. Rep. Nicholas Buglione on public employees' and teachers' pension plans.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/27/1981
Description: Columbia Point tenants have been offered money to leave to ease BHA's burden of transferring them to new Harbor Point. Disabled fear being separated from families;elderly not allowed to move with their pets.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/25/1988
Description: School in East Boston has been converted to community residence for elderly people, where they receive medical and social services. Sen. Kennedy announces plan to build more such facilities.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/22/1989
Description: Interview with Helen Cowen on the treatment of older people by business owners, mainly that they charged older people more.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 1968
Description: University Hospital encourages elderly patients to use "durable power of attorney" to document wishes for, or refusal of, treatment if they are terminally ill. Doctor checks blood pressure. Geriatrics.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/09/1989