February 2014 - Time Goes By - The Network of Care

INTERESTING STUFF – 1 February 2014

NO ONE YOUNGER THAN 50 UNDERTSTANDS Huffington Post came up with 50 things people younger than most of us at this blog don't get. There's Howdy Doody, dial telephones, Burma Shave signs, drive-in movies, life without beepers, answering machines...

Published Sat, Feb 01 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Crabby Old Lady and Dodgy Aging Claims

Like Crabby Old Lady, perhaps some other bloggers reading this received an email Monday from a marketer touting a seminar series by Deepak Chopra. You need to know up front that Dr. Chopra is not on the list of people... Read More...

Published Tue, Feb 04 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

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

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

INTERESTING STUFF – 8 February 2014

HELEN MIRREN'S TWERKING SKILLS Certainly you recall the “twerking” craze that lasted for a day or two following Miley Cyrus's “performance” of the maneuver at an award show not long ago. Now, one of our favorite elder actors, Helen Mirren,......

Published Sat, Feb 08 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER POETRY INTERLUDE: Poem on My 79th Birthday

From time to occasional time, I receive a missive from Tom Delmore who always signs himself, Poet - and that he is. I told you about him and his work in a post last May and his most recent book... Read More...

Published Wed, Feb 12 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: 1944

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 02 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

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

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

When Was the Last Time You Wept?

Regular readers will know that I have little tolerance for nostalgia or regret which, in our time, so often provoke a simplistic sentimentality. That does not mean at all, however, that I don't give value to our memories. As forms... Read More...

Published Wed, Feb 05 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Songs About Cities - New Orleans

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 09 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Elders Being Green

[RONNI HERE: Over a period of time, several readers have sent this story via email. At first, I thought it was interesting but perhaps too divisive of generations to be useful. But as more people forwarded it and I re-read... Read More...

Published Thu, Feb 13 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Crabby Old Lady's New Brain Game

It is late Sunday afternoon, every brain cell has leaked out of Crabby Old Lady's head and she is incapable of useful thought to write a real blog post. She just wants a few words on the screen so TGB... Read More...

Published Mon, Feb 03 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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