April 2014 - Time Goes By - The Network of Care

Dementia Fear

Back in the stone age when we were little kids, it was called senility. Probably, like me, you knew an elder or two – perhaps family or maybe a neighbor – who fit that bill. Mostly, in my memory, they... Read More...

Published Thu, Apr 24 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 12 April 2014

FORD MUSTANG 50TH ANNIVERSARY One of the many terrific things about living in Manhattan is that there is no need to own a car, a possession I find annoying in the extreme. It always wants something – gas, tires, washing,... Read More...

Published Sat, Apr 12 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Mental Health Day No. 1

Do you ever just feel like throwing it all in for awhile? Don't get me wrong. I like doing this blog. A lot. Although at minimum it gives me a reason to get out of bed every day, that is... Read More...

Published Wed, Apr 16 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Triskaidekaphilia

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, Apr 20 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF - 26 April 2014

MARRIED 70 YEARS, THEY DIE A FEW HOURS APART Imagine being married – to the same person - for 70 years. Some people don't even get to live that long. This is the sweetest story: ”A couple who held hands... Read More...

Published Sat, Apr 26 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The Technology Elders Use – And Don't

When, a few months ago, I saw a new primary care physician, of course he drew blood for a bunch of tests. Two days later, I was delighted to receive an email from the large health provider with which he... Read More...

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

Opening Day of the Second Wind Tour

[EDITORIAL NOTE: Not long ago, I told you about the new book, Second Wind, from geriatrician Dr. Bill Thomas and two TGB readers won tickets to the tour he is conducting throughout the United States that extends the ideas he... Read More...

Published Fri, Apr 04 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

How to Post Blog Comments

Last week's post asking where TimeGoesBy readers live got an amazing response. There are 231 comments as of early this morning. In ten years of this blog, that many comments on one story has never happened and I had not... Read More...

Published Tue, Apr 08 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Wrinkles, We Have Wrinkles

It is, to me, the most offensive word there is about getting old: “anti-aging.” To be anti-aging is to be anti-life but even so, the word, the idea, is ubiquitous on the packaging of hundreds of brands of snake oil... Read More...

Published Tue, Apr 01 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Crabby Old Lady and the Old Gray Lady

(For those who may not know, “The Old Gray Lady” is a nickname of The New York Times.) For the past few years at that newspaper there has been a blog titled The New Old Age where almost exclusively the... Read More...

Published Mon, Apr 14 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Mental Health Day No. 3 – Hand Wave

Remember two days ago when I said a minimal post might be just a handwave? Here's a high five for you. At The Elder Storytelling Place today, Nancy Leitz: Oh, No! Not Grandmom Read More...

Published Fri, Apr 18 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Mental Health Day No. 4 - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

[EDITORIAL NOTE: For the past two days, this blog and The Elder Storytelling Place have been unavailable for long periods of time due to a denial of service attack at the host. It is being worked on. Such is the... Read More...

Published Mon, Apr 21 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Depression, Elders and the Internet

Throughout the decade-long history of this blog, I've written about the importance to elders of blogging and of the friendships that develop at a time in our lives when we have left behind the camaraderie of the workplace, when old... Read More.....

Published Mon, Apr 28 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Celebrate the Curves

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, Apr 06 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Medicare MEGO

I stole that – MEGO – from my friend Joyce Wadler who, these days, writes the weekly I Was Misinformed column in The New York Times. Eons ago when she was a reporter at a different paper, she used that... Read More...

Published Thu, Apr 10 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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