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Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Linda Lavin: Making Life Choices

…too. Yes, I realized in putting together the show that that’s what I had been doing all my life — that my life was a series of increments of change…

Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Want a Longevity Diet? Go Blue.

…of wine – they’re part of a social occasion. Blue Zoners eat communally. “If you’re technically lonely in this country, it shaves about eight years off your life expectancy,” Butner…

Monday, July 12, 2021

Happy Birthday, Medicare!

…in the 30 years between 1970 and 2010, life expectancy at age 65 went up by five years, even though coverage was even more restricted than it is now. Analysts…

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

45 Years Later: “The Old in the Country of the Young”

…workplace. Forty percent of the unemployed were over 45, which was older then than it is now, life expectancy-wise. (We’ve seen some improvement: a little less than 38 percent of…

Monday, July 21, 2014

Can How Old You Look Tell You How Long You’ll Live?

…party, and not surprisingly the underwriter was interested. Could facial recognition software be used to gauge a consumer’s likely life expectancy? One thing led to another: In the near future,…

Monday, January 19, 2015

Martin Luther King’s Poor People’s Campaign

…Martin Luther King Day, Pew Research Center released statistics showing that while gaps in voter turnout, high school graduation and life expectancy have narrowed or disappeared, the black-white median-income gap…

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

What Can We Learn From Japan’s Age Boom?

When it comes to going gray fast, Japan is winning the race. With its birth rate below replacement levels and its life expectancy one of the highest in the world,…

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Carers and Elders: What’s Up with the System?

…were making $8.50 an hour 24 years ago and they’ve gone nowhere.” -Martin Bayne Elder care is a growing need as life expectancy in the U.S. continues to lengthen (though…

Sunday, October 6, 2019

Think you’re covered? Think again.

…appeal process in this instance. After two years, most policies treat suicide like any other cause of death. 3. Lost and Forgotten Life Insurance Policies When it comes to life

Monday, November 2, 2015

For Brain Health, Turn Up the Volume on Life

“Amp up life! Our generation was taught that we’re born with a certain number of brain cells and we live our life losing them, so deal with it. It’s so…

Friday, February 16, 2024

Open Thread Update: Late in Life Habits

…habit to watch wildlife and hit the beach (check this feature out, Roxie!), to power user Maryanne: Late in life I was given an iPad by my children. At first…

Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Men and Late In Life Dating

…Men have various reasons for late in life dating. Some men hope to discover love; others are happy with someone who can cook meals or care for them should they…

Friday, May 5, 2023

Open Thread Update: What’s Made Your Life Easier?

…or additions I made that made my life easier. Organization. I love bins and boxes, shelves and stackers. My life got much less noise and distraction when I decided not…

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Inspiring Stories: Dr. Gladys McGarey, 102

In her newest book, THE WELL-LIVED LIFE: A 102-Year-Old Doctor’s Six Secrets to Health and Happiness at Every Age, Dr. Gladys McGarey shares a philosophy for living life to the…

Friday, June 28, 2019

Handling a difficult discussion

…and end of life care. The tendency to fixate on the word end in end-of-life care is one of them, but that in and of itself can have devastating ramifications….