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The public health guidance has been clear and ongoing: Avoid shaking hands and touching foreign objects or people; wear gloves when you come into contact with frequently-touched surfaces; don’t touch your face; maintain social distance and avoid close proximity to other people. In essence, touching another person outside of your…

If you’ve heard nothing else about the coronavirus, you’ve probably heard the phrase “testing, testing, testing.” Public health experts and political pundits have repeatedly warned that the country cannot limit the spread of COVID-19 and fully open up until we have adequate testing to determine the prevalence of the coronavirus…

Way back when (was it only 6 weeks ago?) agebuzz featured a post on self-grooming during the pandemic. Well, this many weeks later, few of us are looking too polished- our hair is growing to previously unexperienced lengths (or has been subject to an at-home hair cut), our nails are…

Technology has always been a mixed-blessing for older adults. Not having grown up with the skills or familiarity that younger people have, there always feels like the need to play catch-up with the salient terms and technology, not to mention the intimidation and isolation one feels when everyone else seems…

If there’s one thing to be said for older adults, we show up at the polls- both as voters and as workers. While older voters tend to show up at elections more than other demographic age groups, you may not realize that older adults form the largest block of poll…

Those of us in long-term relationships probably thought we’d seen and experienced it all- until the coronavirus hit- and the “intense togetherness” of being confined with our partners began. It’s one thing to be in a loving, long-term relationship. It’s quite another to be indefinitely detained with no ending in…