Aging and the Elderly

Dance Dance Revolution

Wiesel Attacker Cops Insanity Plea: Pure Evil Or Just Really Dumb?

San Francisco's Attempted Ford Assassin Paroled At Age 77

SEIU Moves to Dismantle California Health Care Affiliate

Service Employees International President Andy Stern today advanced a threat to dismantle the union's 150,000-member Northern California health care affiliate, announcing plans to move some 65,000 workers into a new group dedicated solely to providers of long-term nursing care. The move is seen in ... More >>

Jazz pianist McCoy Tyner keeps questing.

Service Employees International President Andy Stern today advanced a threat to dismantle the union's 150,000-member Northern California health care affiliate, announcing plans to move some 65,000 workers into a new group dedicated solely to providers of long-term nursing care. The move is seen in ... More >>

The Franz

Service Employees International President Andy Stern today advanced a threat to dismantle the union's 150,000-member Northern California health care affiliate, announcing plans to move some 65,000 workers into a new group dedicated solely to providers of long-term nursing care. The move is seen in ... More >>

Roll of the Die - Human Life Speculators Bet on Elder Deaths

Service Employees International President Andy Stern today advanced a threat to dismantle the union's 150,000-member Northern California health care affiliate, announcing plans to move some 65,000 workers into a new group dedicated solely to providers of long-term nursing care. The move is seen in ... More >>

Maybe Seeing Isn't Believing

Service Employees International President Andy Stern today advanced a threat to dismantle the union's 150,000-member Northern California health care affiliate, announcing plans to move some 65,000 workers into a new group dedicated solely to providers of long-term nursing care. The move is seen in ... More >>

"Nicholas Nixon: Patients."

Service Employees International President Andy Stern today advanced a threat to dismantle the union's 150,000-member Northern California health care affiliate, announcing plans to move some 65,000 workers into a new group dedicated solely to providers of long-term nursing care. The move is seen in ... More >>

The Secret Ruths of Island House

Service Employees International President Andy Stern today advanced a threat to dismantle the union's 150,000-member Northern California health care affiliate, announcing plans to move some 65,000 workers into a new group dedicated solely to providers of long-term nursing care. The move is seen in ... More >>

Back to the Future

When will logic trump nostalgia in San Francisco? When supervisors dump the moratorium and allow apartments for the homeless to be built.

Walkin' Talkin' Bill Hawkins

Less about the story than about the history of '40s and '50s radio

Hate Mail Mon Amour

We pay tribute to those who love enough to write

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Partners in Slime

The California service employees' union and the nursing home industry join forces to increase corporate profit, grow union membership, and sell out abused nursing home patients

Best Glimpse of Old San Francisco, Sans Tourists and Yuppies

Original Joe's

Best Place to Print Photos

Photoworks

The 'I' Is for Irony

After more than 20 years, a new International Hotel is set to rise on the site where riot police evicted elderly tenants during one of the city's most famous protests

Best Lunchtime Napping

Alice Street Community Gardens

Worst of the Lot

Bay Area nursing home regulation lags behind state

Habitat for Inanity

Charity unwittingly sucked into fight over housing low-income elderly

Diagnosis: Eviction

An out-of-state company mismanaged its Mill Valley nursing home, then closed it down, casting dozens of elderly patients to the winds. Within months, 10 of them were dead.

Rays of Hope

Political winds may blow in long overdue nursing care reform

Trophy Boys

When older gay men of means want youthful companionship, they seek out the ...

Savage Love

When older gay men of means want youthful companionship, they seek out the ...

Slap Shots

When older gay men of means want youthful companionship, they seek out the ...

Seven Steps to Nowhere

When older gay men of means want youthful companionship, they seek out the ...

Nonprofits Put to the Test

When older gay men of means want youthful companionship, they seek out the ...

Guardian Angels?

The relatively new, unregulated field of conservators leaves the elderly at risk

Ride the Lighting

The relatively new, unregulated field of conservators leaves the elderly at risk

Go Cougars! S.F. Study Probes Into What Older Women Want.

A recent study regarding mature women's turn-ons is, somewhat ironically, published in a journal whose title is an instant turnoff: The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. In any event, a U.C. San Francisco survey published this week plumbed the desires and activities of more than 2,000 wome ... More >>

Sacto Mayor, Former Cal and NBA Star Kevin Johnson, Blogs That He Was Robbed in San Francisco

​In his illustrious National Basketball Association career, Kevin Johnson racked up 1,082 steals. Now a San Francisco miscreant has registered a steal at Johnson's expense. In his blog, Johnson, now mayor of Sacramento, wrote that his weekend trip to San Francisco was highlighted by someone swipin ... More >>

Good Karma Alert: Meals for Change Launches at the Ferry Building Tonight

Life Begins @ 30Job trainees in the Meals for Change kitchen.​Nibbles, film, discussion, and a good cause: Sounds like a recipe for an interesting evening. Got any plans for tonight? Meals for Change is a nonprofit, food-based social enterprise kitchen that seeks to boost Bay Area Community S ... More >>

City Spends $726 Million Yearly to Help Disabled Live at Home

San Francisco has been truly generous in helping people live at home. It has not been so generous when it comes to keeping track of all the programs it funds. ​Spending and programs are not tracked, nor coordinated -- creating a system seemingly ripe for waste and ineffectiveness.When it comes t ... More >>

Anthony Gardenal, 'Agitated' Dementia Patient, Still At Large

Anthony Gardenal, who demonstratively exited his assisted living facility on Saturday​Anthony Gardenal, the 73-year-old dementia patient who went missing from his Mission District assisted care facility on Saturday, is still missing. According to staff at the Araville Residential Care Home at 1506 ... More >>

'Goats R Us' Facing Animal Neglect Charges

Lawyers, herders, goats, and judges will meet in court​The memorably named company "Goats R Us" R in trouble with the law. Judge Paul Fogel of Alameda County Superior Court ordered owner Egon Oyarzun and herder Wilfredo Felix to stand trial; both will be arraigned next week on animal neglect charg ... More >>

Jerry Brown's Budget Solution Is To Starve Senior Citizens, Excluding Himself

Not On Our Dime​Most everyone would expect Governor Jerry Brown to take sharp measures to ensure that the state's books are balanced in the coming year.But cutting back on food for the elderly? That seems draconian. According to the Sacramento Bee, Brown wants to seriously trim grants for the low- ... More >>

Yoda Is a Hippie

Not On Our Dime​Most everyone would expect Governor Jerry Brown to take sharp measures to ensure that the state's books are balanced in the coming year.But cutting back on food for the elderly? That seems draconian. According to the Sacramento Bee, Brown wants to seriously trim grants for the low- ... More >>

Four on the Floor

Not On Our Dime​Most everyone would expect Governor Jerry Brown to take sharp measures to ensure that the state's books are balanced in the coming year.But cutting back on food for the elderly? That seems draconian. According to the Sacramento Bee, Brown wants to seriously trim grants for the low- ... More >>

Con Man Paul Noe's Scheme to Make Money Off Elderly Veterans

Our federal tax dollars are going where?​This week's Matt Smith column describes how con man Paul Noe II is back to his old practice of persuading seniors to enter into financial transactions they don't fully understand, ones that stretch what the law allows, and which stand to benefit Noe and his ... More >>

In San Francisco, Elder Abuse Is the Perfect Crime

Yes, that's a crime​If you rob or beat up an elderly person in San Francisco, your chances of being convicted are fewer than one in 100, according to data in a recent city report on how local law enforcement addresses family violence."It couldn't be better if you're a predator," said Prescott Cole ... More >>

Occupy Geriatrics: Seniors in Walkers Shut Down Local Bank of America

Dear Bank of America ... ​What some healthy and spry Occupy Movements across the nation couldn't quite accomplish, San Francisco geriatrics have! KCBS reports that a small group of senior citizens between the ages of 69 and 82 successfully shut down a Bank of America in Bernal Heights on Thursday ... More >>