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A Modest Proposal, or How to Use Wasted Resources...Like the Elderly!

Jilly Gagnon | Posted 03.07.2009 | Style

Read More: Elderly, Taxes, Infants, Children, Humor, Prisoners, Satire, Homeless, A Modest Proposal, Fees, Style News

You will never escape the fact that the nurses are stealing tic-tacs out of Grandma's purse when she isn't paying attention. Shouldn't you get something for it?

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Medicare "Rip Off" Strikes Elderly As Obama Tries To Reform Healthcare

Bloomberg | Avram Goldstein | Posted 03.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Health Coverage, Insurance Premiums, Elderly, Medicare, Medicare Costs, Barack Obama, Health, Humana Health Insurance, Medicare Ripoff, Obama Health Care, Humana, Business News

Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Just as President Barack Obama starts his overhaul of the U.S. medical system, providers of U.S.- backed health plans for the el...

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Peaceful Revolution: Investing in Our Human Infrastructure

Riane Eisler | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Women's Rights, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Green Jobs, Obama Stimulus, Women's Issues, Children, Economy, Creating Jobs, A Peaceful Revolution, Working Women, Infrastructure, Obama Stimulus Plan, Economic Stimulus Package, Stimulus Package, Health Care, Elderly, Women, Baby Boomers, Poverty, National Infrastructure, Economic Crisis, Elderly Americans, Stimulus, Investing, Early Education, Green Infrastructure, Obama Working Women, Women's Health, Childcare, Economic Stimulus, Children's Health, Healthcare, Politics News

The Real Wealth of our Nation is Its People Over half a million people lost their jobs last month. There's no question we need a job-creation plan. T...

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Yoga: Even for the Disabled

Bea Ammidown | Posted 03.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Benefits of Yoga, Elderly, Yoga Therapy, Disabled, Old People Yoga, Yoga, Everyday Yoga, Disabled Yoga, Spiritual Healing, Santa Monica Mirror, Yoga Practice, Old People, Viniyoga, Spiritual Path, Living News

Yoga is all. It is everything, it is a process to unite and is about freedom. Physical, energetic, psycho-emotional, and spiritual healing means the freedom to be simply who we truly are.

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Change for the Aged

Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 02.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Elderly, Grandmother, Eastern Culture, Why We Hate Us, Aging, Service, Old People, Hawaii, Asia, Alzheimer's Disease, Alzheimers, Family Values, Values, Caring, Alzheimer's, Love, Family, Living News

At a time when our country is in a paroxysm of economic self-doubt and cleansing itself of corruption, it is tempting to equate what has come before with "old" and the incoming, the new, with "young".

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The Inauguration Through the Eyes of the Dying

John H. Tucker | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Elderly, Dying, Terminally Ill, Obama Inauguration, Barack Obama Inauguration, Barack Obama, Politics News

Bed-stricken and artificially oxygenated, tied down by tubular shackles and chains, these determined men and women see Jan. 20 not simply as Inauguration Day, but as a finish line.

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95 year old Grandma Drops Boyfriend For 'Not Voting'

Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 12.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Elderly, Relationships, Politics and Relationships, Voting and Relationships, Growing Old, Voting, Elderly Voters, Living News

If I am only lucky enough to live to be 95 and energetic enough to have a 96 year-old boyfriend, I only hope that I also still have the good sense to break up with him on moral grounds.

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McCain, Obama, and Some Painful Truths About Aging

Dr. Robert Epstein | Posted 11.26.2008 | Living

Read More: John McCain, Brain, John Mccain Age, Senior Moment, Elderly, Aging, Growing Old, Living News

72-year-old McCain is the oldest person in U.S. history to run for the presidency. The age issue is one of many that will help decide the upcoming election. What's the truth about it?

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Fuel Poverty in UK, Government Faces Court Action VIDEO >>

George Spyros | Posted 11.15.2008 | Green

Read More: Elderly, Fuel Costs, Fuel Efficiency, Alternative Fuels, Fuel Poverty, High Home Heating Costs, Fuel Prices, Old Age, Home Heating Oil, Green News

BBC News video segment: The UK government faces court action over claims millions are in fuel poverty despite a pledge to eradicate it. [today is Bl...

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Nursing Homes Are a Good Case of Economics Gone Bad

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 11.03.2008 | Business

Read More: Elderly, Women, Nursing Homes, Economics, Health Care, Children, Health, Gender, Business News

The latest bad news shows that "more than 90% of nursing homes were cited violations of federal health and safety standards last year."

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The Hillary Holdouts ... And A Theory Why

Alison Owings | Posted 09.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Elderly, Feminism Clinton, Older Women, Hillary Roll Call Convention, Hillary Clinton Sexism, Sexism, Clinton Supporters, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama Women's Vote, Secretaries, Politics News

The soul-robbing sexism of the past has come home to roost in the present. The Hillary Holdouts who could not wear pants to work then, yell their support for their pantsuit-wearing avenger now.

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McCain Makes Age an Issue

Hal Donahue | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Mccain Health, Leadership, Obama, Election 08, John McCain, Conservatives, Elderly, McCain Old, John Mccain Age, Politics News

Seldom are the great leaders of history old or feeble. If this campaign is going to be waged on fitness to lead as John McCain approved, then age must be considered.

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BBC Claims Singles Are at Risk for Alzheimer's; I Think the BBC is Losing Its Mind

Bella DePaulo | Posted 08.09.2008 | Media

Read More: Elderly, Marriage, Dementia, Singled Out, Friends, Singlism, Divorce, Bbc, Health, Matrimania, Alzheimer's, Intellectual Stimulation, Singles, Media, Widows, Social Contact, Media News

With no reliable differences in the rate of Alzheimer's between the married and the single people, the BBC should not have heralded the "findings" in a headline.

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McCain's Cynical Marketing Is a Danger

Diane Francis | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Elderly, Obama Britney Paris, Age Gap, McCain Old, John Mccain Age, Obama Elderly Vote, Obama Attacks, Ageism, 2008 Election Age, Obama, Obama McCain Matchup, Attack Ads, Barack Obama, Politics News

McCain has begun to seriously play up the enormous age gap between the two candidates. The latest salvo is a TV spot comparing Britney and Paris to Obama: a bulls-eye for Republicans.

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Not Too Keen on McCain? Here Are Some Alternatives

Scout Opatut | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Elderly, John McCain, John Mccain Age, Woody Allen, James Dobson, 72-Year-Old, 2008 Election, 1936, Robert Redford, Julie Andrews, Politics News

Think about your grandmother. I'm sure she's very sweet. But would she make a good president? If we're going to vote a 72-year-old into office, we better make sure we're voting in the right one.

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As Gas Prices Soar, Elderly Face Cuts In Aid

New York Times | Posted 07.13.2008 | Business

Read More: Elderly, Gas Prices, Aging, Meals on Wheels, Business News

Early last month, Jeanne Fair, 62, got her first hot meals delivered to her home in this lake town in the sparsely populated southwestern part of the ...

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Herb and Obama ... Fired Up and Ready to Go!

Linda Bergthold | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Elderly, Michelle Obama, Obama Older Voters, Older Voters, New Yorker, Octogenarians for Obama, Obama Elderly Vote, Politics News

With all this talk about young people getting involved in this election, we may have missed an important population -- octogenarians are fired up and ready to go!

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