Not wanting to burden their children is a fundamental concern of many older adults as they age. A National Institutes of Health research study titled “You Don’t Want to Burden Them” confirmed as much, identifying burden as an important concept…
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There should be a warning: Oxygen breathing tanks may be necessary to compensate for the room’s depletion of air due to excessive chatter and uncontrollable laughter. The excitement in the atmosphere was palpable. A couple dozen older adults waited patiently,…
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We have become defensive walkers, out of necessity. Obliged to constantly dodge the misfits who are incapable of walking straight and working a mobile phone at the same. This rude, oblivious behavior is only the tip of the iceberg when…
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By Stuart Greenbaum Donald J. Trump, 70, will be the oldest person to take office as president of the United States. In California, Jerry Brown, 73, is the country’s oldest governor. What they have in common as leaders is at…
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To Jenny McCarthy, Gwyneth Paltrow and all celebrities who make baseless claims to promote health, beauty and anti-aging nostrums, understand this: “You are entitled to your own opinion, but not to your own facts.” Although late-Senator Daniel Moynihan’s admonition was…
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Calling all puppeteers! In anticipation of the presidency of Donald Trump, there is an immediate need for talented string pullers, aka public relations professionals. Candidates must be skilled in discreet manipulation, the art used so masterfully to control the actions…
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Every new year we make resolutions; and have a chance to make things right. So for this upcoming year let’s all agree to save valuable time by saying “twenty-seventeen.” Instead of the cumbersome “two-thousand-seventeen,” that is. If the simplicity and…
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Not only have you left and gone away, Joe DiMaggio, you seem to have taken the virtue of humbleness with you. “Culture changes in ways that are both superficial and profound,” writes David Brooks in The Road to Character. The…
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Hate graffiti and the so-called “artists” who scribble or sign on, or otherwise deface streets, walls, bridges, trains, rocks and other innocent surfaces? You’re not alone. Aside from the vandals themselves, it is unlikely anyone would consider this criminal activity…
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Roger Angell, The New Yorker essayist and author on sports and culture turned 96 this year. He is living proof you can be both great and humble. His story “This Old Man: Life in the Nineties” (The New Yorker, 2-17-14)…
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