Why Redecorating Is Important As We Grow Older

                                             The Old School Way of Thinking We can all recall going over to older relatives homes when we were younger and inwardly laughing at the old, rickety furniture or shag carpet that needed replacing eons ago.  Did you wonder at...
How Old Is Elderly??

How Old Is Elderly??

                                                   How Do We Define Elderly? I always kiddingly tell my husband, Charlie that someone is getting old when they are at least 15 years older than me!  A recent column in the Chicago Tribune muses over when to consider...

How Our Memory Improves With Age

                                Surprise — Our Genetic Makeup Aids Our Memory! We all seem to feel as we blow out another candle on the proverbial birthday cake that those moments of thinking we’ve “lost it” are going to keep gaining momentum....

Letting Go Of Age Segregation

What Is Age Segregation, Anyway? Many people particularly younger people see older people as only looking out for themselves and viewing younger people as entitled and winey. I read a statistic in a recent Wall Street Journal article that claimed that next year for...

Do You Speak Elderspeak???

                                              How Do You Speak to The Elderly? What do we consider elderly to be anyway?  Most people think of the elderly as those that are infirm or have trouble seeing, hearing or with mental cognition.  How do you speak to the...