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EXPLORING AGING: The great car key safari

If you’re like me, then more often than you’d care to admit, part of your morning routine includes the hunt for that most elusive and wily of game — the car keys.

EXPLORING AGING: The best of times

Michelangelo. Louis Pasteur. Eleanor Roosevelt. Alexander Graham Bell. Susan B. Anthony. Einstein. Edison. Twain. Gandhi. What do they have in common? They all did some of their best work after the age of 60.

EXPLORING AGING: Dying of a broken heart

For all the songs and poems and stories that end with the hero dying of a broken heart, no one ever actually dies of that particular emotional affliction, do they?

EXPLORING AGING: Sister Bennie finds purpose

Active in mission work since the 1950s, Sister Bennie founded Mercy Ministry, which reaches out to prison inmates through one-on-one visits and through weekly radio shows on KXEN-AM.

SENIORS TODAY: Assistive devices for seniors

Assistive technology devices are designed to provide additional accessibility and safety to individuals who have physical or cognitive difficulties, impairments, and disabilities.

SENIORS TODAY: Skin care as we age

We must focus on taking better care of our skin as we age.

EXPLORING AGING: Heads forget, hearts remember

Families of people with Alzheimer’s often experience a gap too wide for any bridge to span.

SENIORS TODAY: Long term care resources

Long-term care refers to social, medical and personal services for people who need help for a long time due to old age or disability.

EXPLORING AGING: Preserving life stories through video

Somewhere out there a young couple is opening the box of a new camcorder, purchased in anticipation of a new addition to the family.

SENIORS TODAY: Pain management for older adults

Pain management has only in recent years been considered by the medical professional as another vital sign of life.

EXPLORING AGING: Volunteering can bridge conversation gap

Anyone who has had a loved in one a skilled nursing care center knows the feeling – the realization that, after coming to visit day after day, it is becoming more difficult to find things to talk about.

SENIORS TODAY: Laugh Out Loud

Why is a good sense of humor the best medicine as we age?

Laughter may be the best medicine as we age.

EXPLORING AGING: The quilters of Breeze Park

As a wise man once said, “All pleasures pale before service rendered in a spirit of joy.” If the laughter coming from the craft room at Breeze Park is any indication, he may have been onto something.

SENIORS TODAY: What retirement means

Our understanding of retirement in America is changing. Longevity and economics are helping to drive this change.

SENIORS TODAY: Does your back go out more than you do?

Most of us will experience back pain at one time or another during our life.

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