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New Rule Changes How Nursing Home Disputes Are Aired
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the federal agency charged with overseeing the quality of treatment in the nation’s 15,000 long-term care facilities, recently released a final rule heralding its first major regulatory reform in 25 years. The rule is slated to be phased in over three years, beginning November 28, 2016. It […]
The Three A’s for Happiness and Health
Gifts from the Heart – Get Started Now for the Holidays
Unexpected Therapy and Unforgettable Memories
Gauging Aging: Study Looks at Ageism in America
Updated August 2025 It doesn’t take a concerted study by a think tank to reveal that ageism is flourishing in America. Ask anyone who’s attained A Certain Age about the feelings of invisibility, uselessness, even fear and scorn imposed by those around them. Ageism is stereotyping and discriminating against individuals or groups on the basis […]
The Friendship Line: A Lifeline for Lonely Seniors
A soft-voiced man with kind eyes and an impeccably trimmed white beard, Patrick Arbore is Director and Founder of the Center for Elderly Suicide Prevention & Grief Related Services, now housed within the Institute on Aging in San Francisco. Back in 1973, he also founded the Friendship Line, which now also operates out of the […]
The Need to be Useful
Shots for Health – Surviving the Flu Season
Health issues get more complicated the older we get and it’s especially true when you’re talking about the flu season. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) strongly encourages people 65 and older to get their flu shots each and every year. The CDC estimates up to 70 percent of all hospitalizations due to […]
Tunnel Vision and the Dilemma of Stranded Caregivers
We’re all a little self-centered until we become the caregiver to an older loved one. Suddenly we have so much to think about, to do and to plan for, that everything else goes straight to the back burner. Life changes dramatically. We no longer have time for friends, to attend events we’d usually never miss […]
Help With Letting Go of Life’s Regrets
As a longtime counselor with the Institute on Aging’s Friendship Line, the country’s only accredited crisis intervention line and warmline focused on callers age 60 and older, I listen to and talk with dozens of callers each week—many of them anxious, distressed, in crisis, or depressed. It’s a volunteer gig, and understandably, not everyone’s bag […]