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August 10, 2005

A new beat

We’re trying something new this summer. With the Legislature out of session and no state election campaign this fall, we’ve detached one of our two State House reporters, Meg Heckman, to spend a few months developing a beat on the issues of aging. Maybe you’ve seen some of her stories already, including today’s on the difficulty many older people are having in understanding changes in Medicare benefits.

Even though this is a temporary assignment for Meg, we’re excited about it. When we embarked a couple of years ago on a content-driven redesign of the Monitor, we identified several subjects we hoped to cover better. Aging was one of them (we’ll be introducing others soon). The age range we’re covering in the beat begins with people preparing to retire and runs to the end of life.

Speaking of this new beat, the Sunday Viewpoints page will feature a first-person commentary by a Texas doctor dealing with his father’s long, slow, difficult decline. It is truly an eye-opening account – one that I’m sure will raise familiar issues with many readers. Familiar but frightening, I should add. The issues of old age – or old old age, as this physician calls it – comprise a national problem that will only grow more immense in coming years.

Posted by Mike Pride at August 10, 2005 04:54 PM

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