Aging Parents

The Shriver Report Shows the Importance of Being a Real Cougar Woman

Linda Franklin | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living


Linda Franklin

For the first time in history, one-half of all U.S. workers are women, and mothers are the primary breadwinners or co-breadwinners in two-thirds of American families.

Are Your Parents Old and Ill? A Chat With Dr. Tamara McClintock Greenberg

Dr. Hendrie Weisinger | Posted 10.04.2009 | Living


Dr. Hendrie Weisinger

If you are like one of the millions that read The Huffington Post, it is safe to say your parents are aging and perhaps ill. How well do you understand what they are going through?

Caregiving

Gloria Barsamian | Posted 07.03.2009 | Living


Gloria Barsamian

Eventually, all of us will end up in a caregiving or care-receiving situation. Apprehension is understandable. But how do we balance our own familie...

Alzheimer's: Maybe Not What You Think

Dan Agin | Posted 06.10.2009 | Living


Dan Agin

We should be shouting in the streets to find a way to make certain that every kid who has a talent for it can have a free education right through to the moment when they start working in a lab.

Solving Social Security

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 04.22.2009 | Living


Dr. Susan Corso

Watching Bill Maher last week, I was arrested by his suggestion that those who qualify for Social Security and are well-off should not collect their g...

Berlinale 2009: Mitchell Lichtenstein's Happy Tears

Karin Badt | Posted 03.23.2009 | Entertainment


Karin Badt

Happy Tears -- like the engaging director himself -- vulnerably exposes the inchoate emotions that children experience when facing not only aging parents, but memories of abuse.