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‘Elder Orphans’ Need Fallback Plans May 15, 2019 
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Doughnut Hole is Gone, But Medicare’s Uncapped Drug Costs Still Bite into Budgets
Medications for chronic conditions are still a major drain on an older adult’s resources. It’s uncertain if this will improve any time soon.
Cinema
Fireflies in the Garden- Successful writer Michael (Ryan Reynolds) returns home, with great reluctance, for his mother’s college graduation. Her warmth and compassion were bright spots in Michael’s otherwise tumultuous childhood …
Redwood Highway- Prickly Marie has reluctantly settled into comfortable isolation in a retirement community, content to live a life of cantankerous indifference. Then her soon-to-be-wed granddaughter leaves a voice-mail message …
Fiction
Love and Other Consolation Prizes: A Novel- Ernest Young, a mixed-race, bastard child in the early 1900s, travels alone on a freighter from China to the United States, sent by his mother …
The Housekeeper and the Professor- Translated from Japanese, so elegant and spare that it’s quite remarkable, this novella should not be missed. Neither main character is ever named. …
Nonfiction
Over the Hill, You Pick Up Speed: Reflections on Aging (For Anyone Who Happens To)- By Nardi Reeder Campion – University Press of New England, 2006 Reading this very funny, unusually candid book is like having a conversation with a dear friend, no longer young,… …
Calypso- After a five-year hiatus, humorist and essayist David Sedaris returns to the bestseller list in his signature style, ruminating about family and aging (he’s 62). …
Children’s Books
A Gift from Abuela- The day Niña is born is one of the happiest of Abuela’s life. She adores having a granddaughter. As Niña grows, the pair spends much time together …
The Orphan Boy- This Maasai tale from Africa is about a magical secret that will be ruined if found out—and the consuming curiosity to discover it anyway. …