February 2014 - Time Goes By - The Network of Care

Loneliness and Premature Death of Elders

I was shocked last week when these two headlines popped into my inbox: Loneliness in Seniors Increases Chance of Premature Death and Loneliness Twice as Unhealthy as Obesity for Older People, Study Finds It has been well known for a... Read More...

Published Fri, Feb 28 2014 8:47 AM by TIME GOES BY

What is a Village? Part 2

[Part 1 of What is a Village? is here. It would be helpful to read that first.] One of the reasons it took me so many years to come around to the Villages idea is that for a long time,... Read More...

Published Thu, Feb 27 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

What is a Village? Part 1

For five or six years now, I have been tracking what is known as “the Villages movement” in the United States and since last summer, I have been deeply involved as a founding member of a nascent Village in the... Read More...

Published Wed, Feb 26 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The Fun Part of Weight Loss

Anyone who has been reading this blog for the past year knows that I have been on a private campaign since last March to lose weight and get healthy. If you're so inclined you can read about some of the... Read More...

Published Tue, Feb 25 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

A Sigh of Relief on Social Security (Or Maybe Not)

CORRECTION: Before I get to the news about Social Security, I must make you aware of a correction to last week's Thursday post titled If You've Seen One Old Person.... Here is the update I have inserted at the appropriate... Read More...

Published Mon, Feb 24 2014 5:31 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Songs of Burt Bacharach

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, Feb 23 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 22 February 2014

THE WOMAN IN NO. 6 Tamar Orvell, who blogs at Only Connect, sent this video that is nominated for an Academy Award next month. It concerns 110-year-old Alice Herz Sommer who is the oldest Holocaust survivor in the world. As... Read More...

Published Sat, Feb 22 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Not By Muscle, Speed or Dexterity

While twice this week (here and here) we have discussed the argument for not assuming that old age is all about disease and debility, we need also to consider that however much elders are maligned by people who push the... Read More...

Published Fri, Feb 21 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

If You've Seen One Old Person...

...you've seen one old person. Because the statistics so surprised me, on Tuesday I wrote about a recent study reporting that ”Only about a third of Americans ages 65 and older are fully able to take care of themselves and... Read More...

Published Thu, Feb 20 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Elder Poetry Interlude: Looking Back in My Eighty-First Year

Last week, I posted Poem on My 79th Birthday that reader Tom Delmore emailed. It was written not by Tom, but by Peter Everwine. (You can find two of Delmore's poetry books at Moonpie Press.) Shortly after that first poem,... Read More...

Published Wed, Feb 19 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Defining Age as Sickness

From the beginnings of my research into aging nearly 20 years ago, I was shocked and then disheartened to see that pretty much all writing – academic, popular, personal and professional – started from and ended with the belief that... Read More...

Published Tue, Feb 18 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Medicare Observation Status

You've read the stories for years. An elder is hospitalized for a few days – it could be for anything from a broken bone to chest pain, fainting, irregular heartbeat or dozens of other conditions – a common occurrence at... Read More...

Published Mon, Feb 17 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: 1945

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, Feb 16 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 15 February 2014

TWO ELDER ICONS DIE It seems so cruel, doesn't it when someone dies, that you realize you thought they were already dead. That happened to me this week when Shirley Temple died at age 85 and Sid Caesar at 91.... Read More...

Published Sat, Feb 15 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Crabby Old Lady and the Medical Establishment

Throughout her life, Crabby Old Lady's relationship with the world of medicine has been sporadic and she is only half kidding when she says that's what has kept her remarkably healthy through her life because doctors always find something wrong...

Published Fri, Feb 14 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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