I learn with curiosity Rachel Greszler’s opinion piece “How to help more Americans age like Dick Van Dyke” (Dec. 19, Opinion). I wish to remind Greszler that Van Dyke is an exception. That’s why there’s a film of his life.
I’m a girl of the “Silent Technology.” I labored or studied or raised preschoolers from age 15 to 74. I’m now retired and dwelling very modestly on a low revenue. The place can I join the “welfare-without-work” that’s “broadly obtainable?” Or does she imply the Social Safety revenue that already pays my payments?
I hope that the employers who’re anxious to rent me on a versatile, part-time foundation will reply to this piece and make themselves identified. I’m unable to start out my very own enterprise as a result of lack of capital and (as a result of growing old) of entrepreneurial stamina.
I had hoped that this piece would point out the numerous methods older People might reside extra purpose-filled lives by (for instance) improved Medicare advantages and a Social Safety cost-of-living enhance that isn’t a joke. However, alas, these issues are usually not a part of Greszler’s imaginative and prescient.
Anne Thureson, Seattle
