Daring to disprove the adage you can’t tell a book by its cover, the California Senate Select Committee on Aging and Long Term Care published A Shattered System: Reforming Long-Term Care in California: Envisioning and Implementing an IDEAL Long-Term Care…
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Annie Lennox, 60, magically rocked the house at the Grammys with her rendition of “I Put a Spell on You.” Hopefully it proved to more than a few viewers and audience members that talent and longevity rule over large egos…
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There will come a time when you think to yourself: This may be the last coat I ever buy. And it is not because you’re retiring to Florida. It’s because you realize you are getting old. Old enough, in fact,…
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If for no other reason than it affects everyone, ageism is the most pervasive of all forms of discrimination. Though some of us have more experience than others, the fact is everyone is aging. The behaviors contributing to ageism, while…
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Here’s a New Year’s resolution for the ages, all ages. Let’s resolve to make aging cool -- in both perception and reality. It’s a daunting task, one that will most likely take beyond this year, if not a generation. But…
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“There are lies, damned lies and statistics,” Mark Twain famously warned. The misrepresentation of statistics is sport in American culture, most obviously and abusively in politics and advertising. Surprising, though, is the arbitrariness with which some statistics are misstated by…
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In the intrinsically superficial world of Hollywood where people make a living pretending to be who they’re not, it’s not surprising that many actors attack aging as a challenge to play “against type” – both on-screen and off. Frances McDormand,…
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Some people deliberately make provocative statements just to stir things up. Political talk show hosts do it all the time. Reality TV show “actors” do it. And so do writers, especially in this day when successful journalism is gauged by…
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There’s nothing quite like observational humor to give perspective to life’s biggest challenges – health and aging. For example, Jim Gaffigan confided, “The problem is, I’d have to work out twice a day just to look out of shape.” Louis…
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Renowned philosopher and visionary R. Buckminster Fuller started his classic Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth with this analogy: “I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuities. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are…
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