January 2015 - Time Goes By - The Network of Care

Super Sad True Elder Love Story

On the last day of 2014, 95-year-old Eddie Harrison died alone in a hospital bed three weeks after his wife, Edith Hill, was removed from their home in Alexandria, Virginia, and taken to Florida. It didn't need to be that... Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 02 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Is It a Cold or is It Flu?

As soon as fall arrives each year, I am first in line for a flu shot. On the one occasion I missed it in the past 25-30 years, I got so sick I could barely crawl out of bed for... Read More...

Published Tue, Jan 06 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 10 January 2015

JE SUIS CHARLIE Let's take a moment at the start of this blog post today to honor the people who were slaughtered by terrorists in Paris this week. There have been many fine tributes to the brave souls of Charlie... Read More...

Published Sat, Jan 10 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

People Who Vote Against Their Own Interests

Last week, in the comments following my story about anticipated Congressional attempts to limit Social Security, many readers wrote, some in anger, about elders who vote against their own best interests. I know exactly how they feel. Actually, I am.....

Published Mon, Jan 12 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Your Perception of Aging Affects Your Health

The more comfortable you are with growing old, the better your health is likely to be. But it's not easy in the United States and many other western countries to resist the incessant drumbeat for the primacy of youth including... Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 16 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Old Mean Girls

Did you see the Op-Ed in The New York Times on Sunday about the old mean girls in the retirement community freezing out the 97-year-old newcomer? Before we go any further with that thought, let us acknowledge the ageist language... Read More...

Published Tue, Jan 20 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 24 January 2014

GROWING OLD ALONE RESPONSE There was a strong response to our Wednesday feature about growing old alone that used an interview with actor Jack Nicholson as a jumping off point. It caused a lot of interesting comments. Herm is a... Read More...

Published Sat, Jan 24 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Elder Adoption of Technology – Or Not

There is no argument about it: the development of technology in our lifetime is nothing less that astounding. Sometimes, I think, we've become so accustomed to it that we forget there is no essential difference between modern digital technology and...

Published Fri, Jan 30 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Norman Lear's <em>Guess Who Died?</em>

Since his well-received memoir, Even This I Get to Experience, was published in October 2014, 92-year-old Norman Lear has been making the rounds of the television and print interview circuit. He has done dozens of interviews by now but only... Read More...

Published Mon, Jan 05 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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Super Sad True Elder Love Story

Is It a Cold or is It Flu?

INTERESTING STUFF – 10 January 2015

People Who Vote Against Their Own Interests

Your Perception of Aging Affects Your Health

Old Mean Girls

INTERESTING STUFF – 24 January 2014

Elder Adoption of Technology – Or Not

Norman Lear's <em>Guess Who Died?</em>

Actor's Gratuitous Ageism Gets Shot Down

ELDER MUSIC: Nudie Suits

Handling Surprises in Old Age

Thank You and Favorite Websites Follow Up

A New Late Night Star For Us

Accepting the Difficulties of Growing Old