New Year, Old “Friends”
The new year is here and it is a time for reflection. Many older adults take stock of their lives during this time and evaluate the quality of their lives. Some have had changes like the loss of a...
View ArticleFor Better, And For Aging Worse, Try Aloha
When one spouse starts having a decline in health due to aging, the other spouse usually has to pick up the slack. Not only do they do the caregiving, but also the other person’s share of household...
View ArticlePlanning for Alzheimer’s
Do you want to know when you will get Alzheimer’s Disease and be able to plan for it? A new study from Georgetown University states that with only a simple blood test you may know if you will get the...
View ArticleSenior Car Buyers Beware
You may be seeing car advertisements on television like the cute little vehicle coming out of the ocean and driving up on the sand, or another darling little car driving across the desert as if it is a...
View ArticleSocial Media=A Generation of Aging Press Writers
Ok, so I’m not sure if anybody really missed me blogging lately but for the last several months, let’s just say that life got in the way. Not just life was in the way, but so was social media. Who knew...
View ArticleThe Heart of the Matter of Aging
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View ArticleWhy Aging Education?
Recently, someone asked me again why I continually give of my time to aging education. It is a simple question really, with a complicated answer. Why do any of us give with our time, talent and...
View ArticleAn Aging Life Renewed
As I look out into my back yard at the new palm fronds on my palm tree, I am reminded that sometimes old truly can be made new again. This aging palm tree had lost all of its fronds but one. I thought...
View ArticleAging Year In Recuperating Review
It has truly been an eventful year for all of us, 2016! There were politics, financial challenges to medical coverage and grocery budgets, and aging issues as usual. Frankly, I was so busy trying to...
View ArticleDiagnosis Death
I realize that the title to this blog is alarming but that is truly how I felt at the time when my oncologist told me that my breast cancer was back metastasized to my spine. That was six months ago....
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