As the country reopens and stay-at-home orders are eased, the risk to seniors from COVID-19 may increase. While the curve has flattened in some parts of the country, infected people …
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Deciding What’s Important in Life: It’s in the Cards
The holiday season can make people contemplative. And quite often, it can also inspire them to accomplish one of life’s many “Shoulds” — getting affairs in order such as completing …
Continue ReadingStaying Stronger Longer
Most adults will lose at least 30{d0e74b8a3596e4326b45924d39792f257a1f9983beed4201831d386befd3d18e} of their muscle mass during their lifetimes. That frightening truth even has a scary-sounding name: sarcopenia — literally translated as the even scarier …
Continue ReadingDo These Ads Make Your Life Look Sad?
Even avowed Luddites can’t claim to be totally immune to the way older people are portrayed online — when you can find them there at all: a bit feeble, immobile, …
Continue ReadingThe Look and Feel of Downsizing
When it comes to choosing where to live as we age, the world seems to be divided into two camps: those who swear they want to be carried out of …
Continue ReadingAmbiguous Loss: Mourning a Loved One Who’s Still Alive
My friend Jack texted me the link to the same article three times in two days — his brain addled by a combination of lack of sleep and the stress …
Continue ReadingA Decade of the Affordable Care Act: Has It Helped Seniors?
Nearly a decade after it was passed, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) — also glowingly or disparagingly referred to as “Obamacare,” depending on a person’s politics — …
Continue ReadingThe Age-In: A Flashback in Learning About Aging
The Age-In. It was something of a flashback — modeled after the Teach-Ins of the 1960s, which were characterized by peer-to-peer talking and listening sessions rather than the more formalized …
Continue ReadingWhat the Experts Don’t Tell You: Tried & True Tips for Dealing With Dementia
There is no shortage of advice these days about how to deal with the “problem behavior” of people who have dementia, many of whom get more resistant as their conditions …
Continue ReadingTruths and Tips About Opioids and Older People
Old age is getting younger. For the second year in a row, the life expectancy in the United States declined according to a recent bleak series of reports by various …
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