Blog Posts - July 2015

July 29, 2015 By Flora Davis
From my living room window, I look out on a pretty little park—and the nursing home across the way. I know someone who lives there but I haven’t visited her, I’m ashamed to say. The place scares me because it reminds me that there might be a nursing home in my future. Read more...

Age, Trauma and Contentment

July 23, 2015 By Alix Kates Shulman
Unaware of his accident or his dementia, my husband attributes his lack of short-term memory—the result of a traumatic brain injury that left him, at 75, like someone with advanced Alzheimer's—simply to aging. Read more...

These Old Guys

July 15, 2015 By Bob Bostock
In 1984 when my wife and I bought our first house, I started watching the PBS home-improvement show This Old House to get some ideas on projects I might be able to do myself. Read more...

The 411 on 911

July 13, 2015 By Pepper Evans
Do you ever worry about what could happen if you ended up in a hospital and no one knew who you were? What would happen to you if you were in an accident and unable to tell first responders whom they should call? Read more...

An Old Lesbian Reacts to the Supreme Court Decision on Same-Sex Marriage

July 11, 2015 By Margaret Cruikshank
Like others my age, I never expected my country to end my second-class-citizen status. The swiftness of the movement from gay rights legislation to same-sex marriage in some states to the June 26, 2015, ruling for marriage in all states takes my breath away. Yes, the Supremes were expected to rule as they did. And the vile comments by Justice Antonin Scalia remind everyone that bigotry has not been vanquished. But what a time of celebration for people who, when I was young, were judged sick or sinful or both, and in my middle age were struggling against long odds for basic civil rights. Read more...

Is a Generation of Powerful Women Turning Age into an Advantage? Not Exactly

July 07, 2015 By Ashton Applewhite
"Could the current cohort of eminent women in their 60s herald an era when aging, for women, ceases to be an enemy, and even becomes a friend?” asks Liza Mundy in the recent issue of the Atlantic. Read more...

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