By Robert Scheer / Original to ScheerPost
Welcome to the Scheer Intelligence podcast, where the intelligence comes from our guests. In this episode, it is Judy Karofsky, author of DisElderly Conduct, which explores the nightmarish world of assisted living and hospice care in America — a world of painful tragedy due to systemic neglect. Scheer and Karofsky critique the lack of regulations, corporate greed and profit motives that endanger our elders and what must be done to ensure dignity and safety in their final years. It makes for an urgent conversation that affects all of us deeply.
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Robert Scheer
Robert Scheer, publisher of ScheerPost and award-winning journalist and author of a dozen books, has a reputation for strong social and political writing over his nearly 60 years as a journalist. His award-winning journalism has appeared in publications nationwide—he was Vietnam correspondent and editor of Ramparts magazine, national correspondent and columnist for the Los Angeles Times—and his in-depth interviews with Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev and others made headlines. He co-hosted KCRW’s political program Left, Right and Center and now hosts Scheer Intelligence, an independent ScheerPost podcast with people who discuss the day’s most important issues.
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