Seniors are often saluted for the wisdom they impart through their seasoned bon mots and, more recently, have been tapped by several authors for their secrets to living well. The unforeseen danger is that the adulation can foster a kind of complacency, a certain smugness, a haughty feeling that only helps fuel the divide between the […]

Updated April 2025 People lucky enough to have employers providing them with dental coverage most often lose it when they retire. As of 2023, a third of adults who are 60 or over lacked dental insurance, according to a survey by the CareQuest Institute for Oral Health, a nonprofit that advocates for policies providing access to […]

Only a few years ago, the Village Movement was hailed as a growing way to “help ease the challenge of caring for a rapidly aging population” by providing support and services that allow seniors to achieve what so many covet: the ability to live independently, to age in place. The Village concept is at the same […]

It’s important for all people, especially seniors, to find safe and effective ways to manage their medications. But people with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia most often need special help. People who have mild dementia are often able to live on their own and function independently. But progressive cognitive losses affecting memory, attention, […]

While the benefits afforded by the Medicare and Medicaid programs are held dear by many seniors, the complications connected to them are not. And recent research reveals that consumers, particularly seniors with low incomes, are most often caught in the crossfire between the bureaucracies of healthcare providers and government agencies. As a result, they are […]

“Seniors have special issues,” says Beverly A. Potter, a California psychologist who goes by the moniker DocPotter. And then she launches into a litany of them: aches and pains caused by arthritis and other diseases common to aging, anxiety and depression due to isolation, chronic trouble sleeping. All these conditions, she says, can be treated […]

My maternal grandmother — perhaps the kindest, calmest, most creative soul who ever walked the earth — taught me to knit when I was very young. It’s a gift that’s kept giving over the decades, and by now, it’s a well-worn addiction. I reach for the needles first thing upon awakening and more than a […]

Though “transitioning” and “resilience” are oft-mentioned buzzwords these days, few people put them in the same sentence as “aging.” But that’s the whole raison d’etre for the Resilient Aging Lab, which encourages seniors to think in new ways about changes that come about with the passing years. The Lab’s mantra is: ‘Aging is inevitable, but aging […]

Without doubt, many medications improve seniors’ quality of living, some even save their lives. But if not managed properly, the drugs they ingest can also sicken or kill them. In fact, an estimated 100,000 older Americans die each year due to mismanaged medications. As the number of medications a person takes each day increases, so […]

Many terms come to mind when an older worker loses a job — none of them pleasant: “put out to pasture,” “given the squeeze,” “aged out,”  “consigned to the scrap heap.” And losing a job later in life may seem especially fraught now that the gleam of The Golden Retirement Years has faded for older […]