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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
Coco - Another animated gem from Pixar that will enchant anyone with a pulse. In rural Mexico, young Miguel (voiced by Anthony Gonzalez) dreams of playing the guitar, an act his family …
Our Souls at Night - In a sleepy Colorado town, widow Addie (Jane Fonda) visits her withdrawn, widower neighbor Louis (Robert Redford) with a proposition: they should sleep together. …
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
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 …
Quiet - Tomie dePaola—the Caldecott and Newbery Medal-winning author/illustrator of the Strega Nona books (and so many more)—shares a basic yet powerful message in his latest picture book. …