Successful Aging—It’s Not Impossible

By Leigh Ann Otte
Maybelle lives with her daughter, Ella, in a two-bedroom house in rural Nevada. At 76 years old, Maybelle controls her type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure as best she can. Years of caring for her ailing husband left little time for exercise and little money for health checkups. Breaking her hip didn’t help with mobility. She uses a walker, though she doesn’t go out much.  Read more...
 

Time to Retire Jokes about Age

By Marilyn Gardner
We may be living longer but in a culture obsessed with youth, we confront ageism earlier in life than ever before, Marilyn Gardner observes in this article. Today, employees charging age discrimination in the workplace are typically still in their 40s. Gardner, a former staff editor and writer for the Christian Science Monitor, has written sensitively about work, marriage, families, aging and many other issues. Now retired, she’s writing a book. Her article was printed in the Monitor in 2004 and is reprinted with permission from the Christian Science Monitor  Read more...
 

The Nursing Home That Changed People’s Lives

By Karen Miller
The first time Emi Kiyota visited her grandmother in a Japanese nursing home, she was profoundly affected. “I was so uncomfortable,” Kiyota says. “I could see that my grandmother and most of the other patients were just existing there; they had no purpose, they were just waiting for release.”  Read more...
 

Retirement Can Wait—Boomers Embrace Entrepreneurship

By Robert Miskimon
As boomers anticipate retirement, the American economy sputters. Employer-employee loyalty has gone the way of the tail-finned car. Many lost jobs are gone forever, taking with them, for many, any assurance of a comfortable retirement.  Read more...
 

The Art of Dressing, According to the Woman Who Wasn’t Born Yesterday
Gifts of Aging, Part 1

February 09, 2014 By Margaret Morganroth Gullette
When I was young, I used to be so anxious about what to wear that, in the morning or before a party, my room would be strewn with discarded outfits. The mess outside exposed the mess inside–how inadequate I felt, how competitive, how miserable that I wasn’t pretty enough or rich enough to meet the day ahead. And often I was wrongly got up—overdressed, mainly.  Read more...
 

The Art of Shopping, According to the Woman Who Wasn’t Born Yesterday
Gifts of Aging, Part 2

February 09, 2014 By Margaret Morganroth Gullette
When I was young, everyone I knew felt some dissatisfaction when trying on clothes. Some of us found it excruciating. I used to say, “The scream came from the dressing room.”  Read more...