November 28, 2013

Facing the public-financed and private housing choices

Good humor is very inexpensive. If you don’t learn to laugh at troubles, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you’re old.  — Edgar Watson […]
November 21, 2013

Do we really know what it means to be old?

What I’m about to tell you is true.  When you were younger, you dressed yourself.  You went wherever you wanted to go.  But when you are […]
October 31, 2013

Getting a leg up on long-term care

The single best predictor of the need to go into a nursing home is how strong your legs are. —Dr. Walter M. Bortz, geriatrician; professor of […]
October 24, 2013

Changing status quo can leave us overwhelmed

It cannot be assumed that a spouse, family member or friend will be authorized to make medical decisions on their loved one’s behalf in every situation […]