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Do you think you can dance? Wait till you see the lady in this video!
Stephanie Gertler | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living
Time colors and shades memories in many ways. So, although I think that I remember clearly the day that my family moved into our "new" apartment on November 1957, I probably don't.
Scott Mendelson, M.D. | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living
The dollar costs of caring for the increasing numbers of elderly Americans expected to develop Alzheimer's dementia over the next 30 years will decimate the personal savings of millions of families.
Jason Mannino | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living
GLEH is the founding organization for Triangle Square in Los Angeles, the first housing facility to provide high-quality affordable residential communities for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender older adults.
Kelly Matheson | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics
The Elder Justice Act in the health reform bills would finally provide the increased federal resources and leadership to prevent, detect, treat, understand, intervene in and, where appropriate, prosecute elder abuse.
Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living
It is an interesting dichotomy - one group seems to open with age, the other seems to close. With openness, it seems that death is much less frightening as if it is merely another viewpoint of sorts.
Posted 10.13.2009 | Impact
Most people in their 90s don't get to jump out of an airplane, ride a motorcycle, or drink beer in a jazz club. But, that's exactly what Second Wind D...
AP | COLLEEN LONG | Posted 10.07.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — A New York City man was convicted of hate crimes Tuesday in connection with a series of muggings that included an assault on a centen...
Darryle Pollack | Posted 09.23.2009 | Living
Death deserves discussion as 77 million baby boomers--known for ushering in the Age of Aquarius--approach the Age of Medicare.
Tamar Abrams | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
I don't know that TRICARE is the best possible care, but I can point to my parents, who still ride their tandem bike every day and swim every day and are healthy enough to plan a January trip to Antarctica.
Grant Cardone | Posted 09.17.2009 | Business
What good is health care if I can't feed my family?
Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living
In 1972 while attending medical school, I was working part time doing EKG's at a Jewish Home for the Aged. It was a clean and nice facility, but like most of its kind, a "waiting station" before people died.
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 11.08.2009 | Living
If one insists on finding Death Panels, they're not hard to find: The Motion Picture and Television Fund has announced it's closing health care for the renowned Motion Picture Home.
washingtonpost.com | David Brown | Posted 10.22.2009 | Living
Two European research teams have identified three genes that affect a person's risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, the most common cause of dement...
AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — The poverty rate among older Americans could be nearly twice as high as the traditional 10 percent level, according to a revision o...
Rachael Freed | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living
Ethical wills are about values, not valuables. But what about the category of stuff -- of value or not?
Sophie Keller | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living
There is a moment in all of our lives when the feeling that we are getting older hits us for the first time. It might be when you reach a significant...
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
Before we collectively start quaking in fear of a government takeover of health care it might make sense to slow down and consider that a fair amount of our health care system already has strong government involvement.
Robert Fuller | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living
Our distaste for good-byes is a reminder of our unfathomable mutual dependence. An individual self cannot come into being, let alone endure, absent the recognition of others.
Pew Research Center | Kim Parker | Posted 09.07.2009 | Living
If a latter-day Ponce de Leon were to search for a modern fountain of youth, he'd do well to explore America's West.1 There he'd find the highest conc...
Dr. Yvonne K. Fulbright | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living
Demand that you or your loved one be given the right to maintain sexual independence, stressing that it's not inappropriate or offensive for people to be sexually active in their later years.
Jim Selman | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
When the nutters want to both destroy civil discourse and undermine the democratic process in some cynical financially motivated power grab, then we must call it what it is: bullshit.
Stuart Shapiro | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
Some of the mechanisms the President has proposed to "pay for" expanding insurance to the 50 million who deserve it are likely to tarnish his legacy.
washingtonpost.com | Elizabeth G. Olson | Posted 08.14.2009 | Living
When 81-year-old Sally Darr needed nursing home care after injuring herself in a fall, her family turned to a new federal rating system for help. Th...
New York Times | Nancy Price Freedman | Posted 08.13.2009 | Style
What constitutes "sexually active" for a wife and husband who are 70 and 78 years old? A certain number of times a week, a month, a year? I haven't se...
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Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living