January 2016 - Time Goes By - The Network of Care

ELDER MUSIC: Australia's Classic 100 Opera Arias (20-11)

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, Jan 31 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 30 January 2016

ACTOR ABE VIGODA DIES - AGAIN Remember Barney Miller? And remember the loveable Detective Fish on that show. His daughter announced this week that he died in his sleep at age 94. But he had died once before – sort... Read More...

Published Sat, Jan 30 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The Scarcity of Geriatricians

As I had done when I moved to Portland, Maine in 2006, I looked for a geriatrician when, four years later, I moved to Oregon. With each inquiry in both states, I was told that the doctor's practice was full.... Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 29 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Alive! 55 Plus and Kickin' - Inspired and Inspiring

Ordinarily, I leave anything about music to Peter Tibbles in his Sunday Elder Music column at this blog. Peter's knowledge, with the aid of “assistant musicologist” Norma, is wide and deep. Mine, although I am an appreciator, is haphazard and... Read...

Published Wed, Jan 27 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Have You Been Dropping More Things as You Get Older?

It is hard to be sure but it seems to be so for me. And it is really annoying. For example, one day last week, I dropped a spoon on the kitchen floor. I picked it up, rinsed it off... Read More...

Published Mon, Jan 25 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: 1951 Yet 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, Jan 24 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 23 January 2016

A WOODSTOCK MOMENT Nick Ercoline and Bobbi Kelly had known one another for 10 weeks when, in August 1969, they went off together to the Woodstock Festival in Bethel, New York. Someone named Burk Uzzle took this photograph of them:... Read More...

Published Sat, Jan 23 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The Theme of an Old Woman's Life

The specifics of this story are unlikely to match any of yours but perhaps there is something in your life that provokes a similar longing. It begins at Christmas 69 years ago. I've told this part of the story on... Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 22 2016 5:31 AM by TIME GOES BY

An Elder Couple's Suicide – A Reasoned Choice

Five U.S. states including my own, Oregon, allow some form of physician-assisted suicide. Although some young people, usually when faced with a fatal diagnosis, have used the statutes to end their lives, most frequently it is old people who choose......

Published Wed, Jan 20 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

It is sometimes said that old people have better memories for events that happened decades ago than for what they had for breakfast this morning. As we have discussed here many times, old-age short-term memory difficulties certainly are annoying (the...

Published Mon, Jan 18 2016 6:12 AM by TIME GOES BY

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ELDER MUSIC: Australia's Classic 100 Opera Arias (20-11)

INTERESTING STUFF – 30 January 2016

The Scarcity of Geriatricians

Alive! 55 Plus and Kickin' - Inspired and Inspiring

Have You Been Dropping More Things as You Get Older?

ELDER MUSIC: 1951 Yet Again

INTERESTING STUFF – 23 January 2016

The Theme of an Old Woman's Life

An Elder Couple's Suicide – A Reasoned Choice

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

ELDER MUSIC: Give My Regards to Broadway

INTERESTING STUFF – 17 January 2016

The Generations of NCIS

Becoming Stronger, Faster, Smarter in Old Age

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