Once a year, three girlfriends from across the country and I meet in an interesting location for several days.    We’ve known each other for decades and range in age from our late 60s to early 70s. We’re a mixture of married, divorced, widowed and remarried women. Our children and…

The Pain Of Loss by Alice Herb   LOSS – such a tiny word that can envelop a world of experiences. I started thinking about loss again when one of my oldest friends- both in age (92) and number of years of our friendship (68)- died. I met Marianne on…

by agebuzz Contributing Editor Julie Buyon   When it comes to accessing health care, we all hope to get the care we need and desire. No one wants to be a “difficult” patient, yet sometimes you need to be tough and uncompromising when advocating for yourself or a loved one….

By Connie Zuckerman   Every once in awhile, the stars align and fate delivers you exactly what you need. For the team at agebuzz, the new arrival of Contributing Editor Julie Buyon is exactly that: a smart, experienced, and savvy patient advocate with important wisdom and knowledge to share with…

Instant Contact, Lost Connection   The Internet has given us instant access to the entire world. The knowledge we can gain, the ideas we’d never been able to share, the messages sent and replies received within minutes was unimaginable only a few years ago. We can now be in touch…

The agebuzz “#agingandamazing” Instagram campaign   It started with an impression of mine: While there’s much in the aging literature about the “invisibility” of older people in our culture, my own experience of being out in the world suggested a slightly different story: Today’s older adults are engaged, interested in…