July 2013 - Time Goes By - The Network of Care

Enforcing Family Elder Care

On 1 July, a new law titled, Protection of the Rights and Interests of Elderly People, went into effect. In China, that is. It states in part, according to an article in the English-language, China Daily, “Family members should care... Read More...

Published Tue, Jul 09 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Independence Day 2013

Is there anyone else out there who, like me, never tires of well-done video of fireworks? Even though it's London on New Year's Day, I haven't found any I like better than this one I posted on the Fourth of... Read More...

Published Thu, Jul 04 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Country Chain Part 2

This Sunday Elder Music column was launched in December of 2008. By May of the following year, one commenter, Peter Tibbles, had added so much knowledge and value to my poor attempts at musical presentations that I asked him to... Read More...

Published Sun, Jul 28 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 20 July 2013

JON STEWART AND GEORGE CARLIN He has been dead for five years but George Carlin's riffs are as fresh as if he had delivered them last evening. Today we have Jon Stewart and his crew on The Daily Show to... Read More...

Published Sat, Jul 20 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Sex Among Residents of Care Homes

That's a scene from the 2006 movie, Away From Her, with Julie Christie and Gordon Pinsent. She is moving into a care home that day due to her Alzheimer's disease. The story gets more complicated from there but for now...... Read More...

Published Wed, Jul 24 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Are You a Senior Center Snob?

I was. Throughout my adulthood, when my ignorance of senior centers was total, they conjured never-ending bingo games in my mind, daycare for old people who hadn't the wit about them for anything more challenging. When I started studying aging,.....

Published Fri, Jul 12 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

How Did You Spend Your Working Life?

Back in June at The Elder Storytelling Place, Lyn Burnstine wrote about the progression of her career from writer to musician and back again to writer in her old age. One reader, Karen Swift, left in part this comment: ”I... Read More...

Published Tue, Jul 16 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

And When I Die [redux]

EDITORIAL NOTE: Whatever it was I so blithely said yesterday about the heat not bothering me, it IS sapping my mental strength and I can't think well enough (or, maybe, just don't want to) to write anything cogent. Also, it's... Read More...

Published Tue, Jul 02 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 6 July 2013

GRANDMA MISAO AND HER CAT, FUKUMARU For 13 years Japanese photographer Miyoko Ihara has been photographing her grandmother and her grandmother's odd-eyed cat. Because my cat Ollie and I spend a lot of time looking directly in one another's eyes...

Published Sat, Jul 06 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Medicare and You – An Anniversary

[PERSONAL NOTE:] Summer break. Mental health week. Vacation. Breather. Whatever you call it, it means time away and I'm putting some distance between me and this blog this week. Posts here will be a combination of new that I've written... Read...

Published Tue, Jul 30 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Further Considering Elders' Working Lives

Last week in this space, we talked at length about how we earned our livings before retiring. It was terrific opportunity for me to learn more about readers I've “known” here for many years along with now having a better... Read More...

Published Mon, Jul 22 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

If You Could Live Your Life Again

A friend asked me – seriously asked, not joking around – what I would change if I could live my life again. I know, it's an old question and the common answer, the quick one, the one that's supposed to... Read More...

Published Fri, Jul 26 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Sex in Old Age Makes You Look Younger (?)

There was something entirely different on my agenda for today's post but then that headline (minus the question mark) popped into the ol' inbox first thing yesterday and I couldn't resist tracking down who was claiming such a ridiculous thing...

Published Wed, Jul 10 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Drinking Songs Part 2

This Sunday Elder Music column was launched in December of 2008. By May of the following year, one commenter, Peter Tibbles, had added so much knowledge and value to my poor attempts at musical presentations that I asked him to... Read More...

Published Sun, Jul 14 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Images of Life: Then and Now

From a series titled Reflections by award-winning photographer, Tom Hussey: It immediately brings a smile to my face - the man recalling his younger self in a moment of pride. It's been many years since then and now he seems... Read More...

Published Thu, Jul 18 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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