{"id":403,"date":"2009-08-31T15:10:48","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T19:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=403"},"modified":"2009-09-02T08:08:54","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T12:08:54","slug":"no-one-to-talk-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=403","title":{"rendered":"No One To Talk To"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a fairly heartbreaking story by Patricia Leigh Brown in today’s New York Times<\/a> about how the ethnic elderly are among the most isolated people in America. They’re America’s fastest-growing immigrant group (in California one in nearly three seniors is foreign born), yet 70% of older immigrants speak little or no English, and most don’t drive. “They come anticipating a great deal of family togetherness,” says a professor of sociology at UC Irvine, “but American society isn’t organized in a way that responds to their cultural expectations.” The story ends with the example\u00a0 of an 84 year-old Indian grandmother who shares a room with her 12 year-old grandson in Fremont, Ca. (“improbably surrounded by Iron Man and Incredible Hulk posters”), who’s spending a lot of time with her eyes cast downwards at her folded hands. Interestingly, the one social group that gets written about is all-male–as we’ve discussed before,<\/a> older men typically don’t form the social networks women do, which makes aging harder for them–and takes the form of Indian men getting together five days a week at the mall for something called the 100 Years Living Club. Sounds like the basis of the next \u00a0Mira Nair movie, no?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a fairly heartbreaking story by Patricia Leigh Brown in today’s New York Times about how the ethnic elderly are among the most isolated people in America. They’re America’s fastest-growing immigrant group (in California one in nearly three seniors is foreign born), yet 70% of older immigrants speak little or no English, and most don’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}