Guest essay by Tiffany Paige, a therapeutic activity specialist with The Hummingbird Project What does it mean to age and truly walk with someone you love who is experiencing an illness like Alzheimer’s disease or another type of dementia? On…
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The couple dozen books I’ve read in the past few decades are displayed like trophies on my bookshelf. Knowing I would never have the patience to reread any of them, I consider it a favor to my future self to…
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Labels rub us wrong. They scratch our collars on shirts and waists on pants. Men’s and women’s, all patterns and colors, whether cheap or fancy. A real scourge. The only thing more uncomfortable is when labels are attached to people,…
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We readers -- and all the journalists, novelists, screenwriters, lyricists, poets, speechwriters, jurists and other skilled wordsmiths whose writing captivates us -- know this: The clarity and eloquence with which something is stated can make a common thought seem profound.…
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Stuart Greenbaum Credit the FrameWorks Institute with using ingenuity “to increase public support for policies and practices that can be advanced to support a robust, healthy, age-integrated society.” A series of briefs and worksheets released early this year by FrameWorks…
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With wealth and fame come awareness: of new and more of everything -- possessions, pleasures, pretentions. On rare occasions, though, there’s another, more profound sense of awareness: of self. The kind of awareness that can be humbling when internalized and…
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Everyone who cares, or needs care, should care deeply about this injustice. To the point: Patient care providers, the actual frontline personnel in assisted living communities and skilled nursing centers, are being exploited. Their job responsibilities cover everything from ensuring…
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For those too busy or to too impatient to read another report on why aging is good for us, here is a cheat sheet of highlights from one of the better declarations, The Power of Purposeful Aging, produced by the…
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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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