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Is There Such a Thing as Normal Aging? August 21, 2019 
Loneliness in Older Adults: It’s Complicated July 30, 2019 
What If You Don’t Want Dialysis? July 10, 2019
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It’s Hard to Eat When You’re Holding Your Ears August 13, 2019 
Reaching Out for Help and Where to Find It July 23, 2019 
Planning for Your Own Death July 18, 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
Our Souls at Night - In a sleepy Colorado town, widow Addie (Jane Fonda) visits her withdrawn, widower neighbor Louis (Robert Redford) with a proposition: they should sleep together. …
Bonneville - When her husband dies, Arvilla (Jessica Lange) wants to scatter his ashes, as he’d wished. But because he never updated his will, her bitter, greedy stepdaughter (Christine Baranski) …
Fiction
Women in Sunlight - Get ready to pack your bags and head to Italy, because Frances Mayes has done it again. In her new novel, three single women are considering the next chapter …
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 …
Nonfiction
My Parent’s Keeper: The Guilt, Grief, Guesswork, and Unexpected Gifts of Caregiving - As we humans are living longer, the sandwich generation has moved to the club sandwich, as we care for not only parents and kids but grandparents and grandchildren …
Over the Hill, You Pick Up Speed: Reflections on Aging (For Anyone Who Happens To) - Reading this very funny, unusually candid book is like having a conversation with a dear friend, no longer young, who is willing to talk about what old age is …
Children’s Books
Mare’s War - In this young adult novel, hard-to-impress teenagers Octavia and Tali take the road trip of a lifetime with their unconventional grandmother. …
Walking in the City with Jane: A Story of Jane Jacobs - Positive images of aging can be hard to find, especially in children’s literature, and when a children’s book features an older woman as the heroine and role model …