Does Your Family Need to Break the Silence?
Join me as we listen in on a family meeting. The fact that there is a family meeting actually happening is a tremendous credit to everyone involved. Many issues have been popping up that nobody wanted to deal with, but now it’s time….
Ralph and Eva are 80 and 78 and still live in their own home. 55 year-old Rick... >Read More
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Best “Elder-Housing Decisions” Not Made During a Crisis
The ideal home is one that you like, one that fits you and your needs, makes you feel comfortable and safe. The ideal elder home includes all of these attributes but it is also a home that allows the elderly resident to age in place.
Age in place?
When you age in place, you live in the same community until you die. This... >Read More
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Living Near Your Children…Bonus or Bad Move?
Half a century ago most families stayed in the same area. You lived your life in close proximity to most of your relatives. Children would marry and move away from home. This “moving away from home” usually meant a few miles or at most it may have been the next town where they established their roots.
There is an old... >Read More
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The Penny Agreement
Moving sale: Saturday 10-2. Antique furniture and carpets. English bone china. Female apricot poodle – tiny, affectionate and loving. Panasonic microwave, as new.
Polly is moving to a care home. Apartment 405 has been wonderful. Fifteen years of comfort and security with a fabulous view of Morningside Park, but now it’s time. It’s...... >Read More
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Wow…I’m Getting Old!
This is Part 2 of a 2 part series – Getting Old
How do we face the twilight years of life? With feelings of dread…or of hope?
The French-born film and vaudeville actor Maurice Chevalier (1888-1972) remarked glibly, “Growing old is inevitable for all of us. The clever thing is to accept it and always plan your next move well in... >Read More
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Aaaaagh! I’m Getting Old!
This is Part 1 of a 2 part series – Getting Old
I am 68 years of age and retired, so I suppose I am considered old. In our politically correct times, I am called either a “senior citizen” or “chronologically gifted.”
What is aging? How do we react to it? These questions are no longer academic for me.
When I was... >Read More
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His and Hers Retirement Dreams
Even in retirement, Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus. How many men and women truly know the retirement fantasies or fears inside their partners’ heads? How do you picture your future and how do you think your ideas line up with your partner’s hopes and dreams? Are you single? What’s coming for you? Does society have... >Read More
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Letting Go and Moving On
Entering the empty nest for us was a benchmark in our lives.... >more
Empty Nest – Think I’ll Git me a Dawg!
I said, “It’s going to be awfully quiet around here this fall,... >more
