By Mary Fridley   Happy New Year and best wishes to the agebuzz community for a healthy, peaceful, and creative 2024!   As anyone who has read my column knows, I love to share articles,  blogs, or interviews that help me grow. This was definitely my response after reading “Speak,…

By Kathleen M. Rehl, Ph.D., CFP®, CeFT®   In the tapestry of time, I recently completed the 77th chapter of my life, surrounded by warmth of about the same number of heartfelt notes, cards, phone calls, digital “likes,” and messages wishing me a happy birthday. The outpouring of love from…

By Susanna P. Barton   Quietly sobbing and crumpled under my work desk, and spinning out over another caregiving crisis for which I had no bandwidth, I called my sweet father for advice. He was sympathetic to the challenges I faced as “the person” for an elderly couple in South…

By Louise Applebome   Here’s a resolution for the New Year that I’m guessing may not have made it onto your list: Embrace instability.    If there isn’t imbalance and instability in our lives, how would we know when we’re in better balance? We need the fluctuations. And, they cannot…

By Lance A. Slatton   Caregiving is an important public health issue and impacts the quality of life of millions of individuals in the United States and across the globe. Caregivers provide critical care and assistance with another person’s social, personal, or health needs and are often unpaid family members…

By Alice Herb   For what seems like a very long time, I have been dismayed- though more accurately depressed- by the state of world affairs. I’ve struggled to figure out what I, at my advanced age, could do about it. I can vote, I can donate to causes I…