February 2015 - Time Goes By - The Network of Care

More Old Mean Girls

A couple of weeks ago I told you about some old mean girls in a retirement community freezing out a 97-year-old new resident. Now comes a report of not only more old mean girls but of retirement community officials supporting... Read More...

Published Wed, Feb 04 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 21 February 2015

THE LADIES Two sisters in their 90s live and work together in their New York City apartment which doubles as their dressmaking shop. As explained at Aeon, "A lifetime ago in their native Hungary, Mimi was a renowned costumer, crafting... Read More...

Published Sat, Feb 21 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Crabby Old Lady on Cutting the Cable Cord

Four weeks ago, Crabby Old Lady told you about how she reduced her fixed expenses by cutting the cable TV cord after Giant Cable Company (hereinafter referred to as GCC) jacked up the monthly charge by 39 percent. She didn't... Read More...

Published Fri, Feb 27 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Oliver Sacks' Essential Essay on Dying

On the Op-Ed page of The New York Times last week, renowned neurologist Oliver Sacks announced his impending death from terminal cancer. True to his nature – or what I know of it from his 12 books and dozens of... Read More...

Published Mon, Feb 23 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Dear Diary: Some Notes on Ageing

There is a handwritten journal I keep although, unlike the kind many others' have, the entries are undated. This latest edition is the third I have filled over 10 years (they are thick with many pages). It is my blog... Read More...

Published Tue, Feb 24 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

'INTERESTING STUFF – 28 February 2015

EDITORIAL NOTE As you know, on Monday through Friday, there is a link at the bottom of each TGB story to that day's story by readers at The Elder Storytelling Place. Last Monday, I neglected to set up the ESP... Read More...

Published Sat, Feb 28 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Choose Wisely: Excellent Healthcare Information For You

There is growing belief – and evidence - that Americans get too much healthcare, that they are over-tested, over-diagnosed and over-prescribed. But that is beginning to change and one the most important change agents is a program called Choosing Wisely...

Published Thu, Feb 05 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: 1970 Again

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 15 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

<em>On Aging</em> by Maya Angelou

In between naps last week during the several days' recovery following my dental surgery, I read. Not any of the several books I am currently working through – I didn't think I would have much recall, given the effects of... Read More...

Published Mon, Feb 16 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Cutting “Fixed” Retirement Expenses

Well, cutting ONE of them. There are, no doubt, readers who will tell us that cable television is not a fixed retirement expense, that they don't bother with it. My colleague here at TGB, Crabby Old Lady, has an answer... Read More...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

In the Tenth Decade of Life

When the renowned essayist – most often about sports, but other topics too – Roger Angell published “This Old Man: Life in the nineties” it became, deservedly, an instant classic. A couple of weeks ago, Tom Delmore emailed to remind... Read More...

Published Fri, Feb 20 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Long and Healthy Lives

Hardly a week goes by without a report or two from medical journals and the popular media that people in Silicon Valley and other places in the U.S. and around the world believe they can “cure” ageing. Most are, of... Read More...

Published Tue, Feb 17 2015 7:18 AM by TIME GOES BY

Dental Week Departures

Dear god. I take a couple of days off and a large chunk of my personal media landscape decamps from the scene. BRIAN WILLIAMS NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams was suspended without pay for six months for inflating his... Read More...

Published Fri, Feb 13 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 14 February 2015

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY EVERYONE I completely missed Valentines Day until I had finished writing today's Interesting Stuff but I caught myself. So here is a holiday ditty - well-suited to such a blog as this - from Henry Lowenstern who... Read More...

Published Sat, Feb 14 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

John Oliver Takes on Big Pharma

As I was sipping my first cup of coffee yesterday – Monday - morning, a regularly scheduled email update from The Center for Aging and Work at Boston College dropped into my mailbox. It contained the Fact of the Week... Read More...

Published Tue, Feb 10 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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