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COVID and Conflagrations by Tracy E. Hill, Ph.D. This month, I decided to see how the United States was faring with interstate travel during the current pandemic as well as witness firsthand the devastating wildfires out west. My 90-year-old engineer-trained father-in-law spends countless hours in assisted living isolation (due to COVID) trying to figure out Read more
Voting & Your Rights to Vote by Tracy E. Hill, Ph.D. Did you know that Saudi women got the right to vote just a few years ago (2015)? And in Turkey and Belgium, voting is mandatory with more than 85% of citizens showing up to the polls. In the 2010 Rwanda elections, more than 97% of Read more
Biggest Culprit to Parents’ Wealth: Family by Tracy E. Hill, Ph.D. The Pennsylvania Department of Aging recently concluded the “Financial Exploitation of Older Adults Study Report” which audited random case files (455) from ten PA Area Agencies on Aging over more than a dozen counties which had reported considerable exploitation (financial) cases three years ago. Read more
The Psychology of Protests by Tracy E. Hill, Ph.D. A recent paper, “The Activist’s Dilemma,” in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology looks at the effect of extreme behavior on popular support for social movements. Considering this year has been fraught with angst and anguish and scattered with protests around the world, I found Read more
Assemblage In the Summer 2020 issue of Generations, the journal of the American Society on Aging, professors Janine Wiles of the University of Auckland and Gavin Andrews of McMaster University look at the concept of “home” and how its meaning may have changed for older adults. They discuss the two basic components of home: the physical-material Read more
With the wildfires in California raging, a Derecho wind storm touching down in Iowa both of which caused havoc, loss of lives and property as well as lifestock – we think 2020 is simply a wash. Not to mention tragic boating accident off Libya waters, and so many other terrible events to 2020 we hope Read more
Older Adults at More Risk with Schools Opening Schools (primary, secondary and higher education) across the country have moved the goal posts so many times in the past couple of months it is hard to keep up. Online schooling, hybrid learning or simply back to school are the choices floating around nationally. Yet these decisions Read more
Telehealth Catastrophe by Tracy E. Hill, Ph.D. According to physicians at Johns Hopkins University (Annals of Internal Medicine August 11, 2020), telehealth medicine may not be as productive for older adults. Although JHU states that loss of hearing is mostly to blame, I believe there is more to it than that. Many older adults did Read more
The Second Annual Silver Sage Summit happened over the weekend; although this year the event was held virtually. Silver Sage Magazine writers from across the pond, across the country and close to home tuned in to discuss what’s happening with each other and the Magazine. Three writers received their press passes: Tina Fain, Stu O’Connor Read more
Walking vs. Running by Tracy E. Hill, Ph.D. I’ve been running since I was in my early teens. It was my way to clear my head and have “Tracy time.” I used to be a triathlete and thoroughly enjoyed the cross training of cycling, running and swimming. The focus of an upcoming triathlon was perfect Read more
