December 2015 - Time Goes By - The Network of Care

INTERESTING STUFF – 12 December 2015

HARRISON FORD'S ADVICE TO DONALD TRUMP As NBC News reported, last week Donald Trump mentioned the 1997 film, Air Force One in an interview with The New York Times: “My favorite was Harrison Ford on the plane,” Trump said. “I... Read More...

Published Sat, Dec 12 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Robot Caregivers and Old People

If you live long enough, one of these robots may be in your future. This year for Christmas, Hasbro is selling what they call an animatronic cat for elders who cannot have a living pet. It responds to touch, movement,... Read More...

Published Fri, Dec 11 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

A Departure from Elder Issues

The entire purpose of this blog, as the subtitle above says, is to discuss what it is really like to get old. If, in the dozen or so years of the existence of Time Goes By, I have written about... Read More...

Published Wed, Dec 09 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Age-Related Loss of Smell and Taste

Considering what serious things can and do go wrong with people in old age, I don't want to make a big deal of this but it's been more than a decade that my senses of taste and smell have been... Read More...

Published Mon, Dec 07 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Willy DeVille

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, Dec 06 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 5 December 2015

THE SAN BERNARDINO MASSACRE On the morning after the terrible shooting in southern California, the New York Daily News ran this front-page headline: Widely tweeted and retweeted, many supported it, others virulently opposed it. You? OPENING DAY AT THE...

Published Sat, Dec 05 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Happy Hannukah 5776

This year Hanukkah begins at about 4:30PM my time on Sunday but because Sunday is always Elder Music with Peter Tibbles day at this blog, I'm celebrating online today. I will, however, be lighting the first-night candle at the proper... Read More...

Published Fri, Dec 04 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Holiday Gifts for Elders 2015

A quick look around here reveals that I've been doing this annual post since 2006 – ten years now. Even so, the bare bones truth is that I don't know any more about gifts for old people than the next... Read More...

Published Wed, Dec 02 2015 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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