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I Hate It, I Love It By Alice Herb   Now that I am most obviously a very senior, senior person, I am constantly being asked by other people if I need help. They just grasp my elbow or otherwise give me admonitions on what I should and shouldn’t do….

By Louise Applebome   I previously wrote about some uncharacteristic health questions/problems I was experiencing last month.   Bottom line: My system was out of balance. I was not feeling like myself.    One possible, but not convincing, explanation was that I had post-COVID symptoms. The skepticism was partly due…

Most of us are probably feeling the economic squeeze at this point. Gas prices and food costs are higher, interest rates and rents are rising and everything seems more expensive than it used to be. And there’s concrete data to support your suspicions. Inflation is now at its highest point…

Maybe you’ve noticed the disconnect. You see the face of a beautiful woman and wonder how lucky she is: no lines around her eyes, no creases surrounding her mouth, no ridges above her lips. And then you glance at her hands and they are a sure giveaway- the lines, wrinkles,…

By Alice Herb   When I first started working as a bioethicist, I spent a lot of time with on-the-job training addressing issues related to older adults. One of the most startling ones to me was how many seniors complained about having their possessions stolen. I was only 54 at…

Many of us expect the worst: as we get older, we presume that our brainpower will diminish, our cognition will decline and our brains will be vulnerable to the ravages of dementia. That’s certainly the prevailing imagery we see in the mainstream media. But in fact, there’s something not quite…