Intergenerational House Sharing by Donna L. Scrafano Last year, I was forced to make some major, life-changing decisions. My 90-year-old father, whom I was taking care of (and who has since died), was ailing, and his condition was getting worse. So we decided that it was best that he and I live with my daughter Read more
Cross-Country, COVID-19, & Sweet Lemonade Part 2 – Missouri and Kansas by Christina Fain After a pizza and a good night’s rest in St. Louis, we continued west. The Missouri landscape soon began to change from our familiar rolling hills to an ebbing and flowing terrain of green hills settling into miles of flattening fields. 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
Parents’ Day in September by Jude Joseph Lovell September 27 has always been important to my family. It’s my mother’s birthday. This year marks her 81st, and I can report happily that she is going strong. Which isn’t terribly surprising if you know Joanne Lovell. She has never let much grass grow beneath her. But Read more
Love Out Loud By Donna L. Scrafano While we all attempt to survive this pandemic, we can’t deny that life as we once knew it has changed greatly. In addition to picking up groceries or walking into a store with our masks and armor on, we are social distancing from family and friends or not 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
All Joking Aside, Laughter Is Healthy for You by J’Nel Wright Why did the chicken cross the road? It doesn’t matter as long as it’s funny. Not only does a good gag make us giggle, experts say laughter is actually good for our health. If you are debating between downloading the latest chick flick versus Read more
The Aftermath: A Community Scattered by Michael Orr On November 8, 2018, the Camp Fire engulfed the town of Paradise, California and several nearby smaller-communities. The wind-driven fire left more than 11,000 homes in ashes and took the lives of at least 85 people. Ninety-five percent of Paradise was wiped off the map in a 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
