My First Triathlon
For my 70th “birthday present” I asked my wife our daughter if we could do something adventurous together.
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Beating Burnout
The common understanding is that burnout happens when we push too hard for too long. By this definition, the solution is to not push as hard or for as long. Thinking of burnout as avoidable by making the choice to stop pushing so hard for so long puts us in a lose-lose situation.
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Betting Against Your Health
Too few people understand that Medicare does not include benefits covering the cost of long term care and as a result wait too long before buying LTC insurance.
Continue ReadingWise Up: Study Aging
I am certainly not blind to how fortuitously my interest in aging aligns with the needs of an aging world—and I certainly don’t need additional convincing that my decision to forgo law school was in equal measure, wise and slightly prescient. But maybe you do.
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Do You Feel Your Age?
Simply asking a person how old he or she feels may yield rich insights into the physical and mental state of the individual, experience with getting older or, more specifically, with managing a disability.
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A Case for “Re-generation”
In the course of a typical day, I and many other older adults who are retired or live in generationally segregated communities or work and socialize only with others our age have very few personal interactions with younger people. And I’m convinced that we are the lesser for it.
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Update: Mad as Hell Part 2
After 14 years fighting to maintain some shred of autonomy and home in assisted living facilities in New York and Pennsylvania, Martin Bayne is being evicted from his current assisted living. His next stop will be an “indeterminate stay” at a short-term rehab facility in a local CCRC.
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Polypharmacy Is Not Jolly!
The time is ripe for doctors to rethink how they prescribe medications. Less is more.
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