Time Goes By

Not Enough Geriatricians

When I moved to Oregon in 2010, and needed a new physician, I used the internet to track down the geriatricians in my area. About half the listings included a note that the doctor was not taking new patients. When... Read More...

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

INTERESTING STUFF – 27 February 2016

PRESIDENT OBAMA WRITES A POST FOR SCOTUS BLOG You cannot have missed the fact that even before Justice Antonin Scalia's body was cold, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that the Senate will not fulfill its constitutionally-required duty to...

Published Sat, Feb 27 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Can You Hear Me Now?

CONTEST NOTE: The magic random number generator has spoken and selected three readers as winners of the book, Seven Ways to Lighten Your Life Before You Kick the Bucket that was offered on Wednesday. As in merry old England where... Read More...

Published Fri, Mar 18 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: A Barrel of Bachs

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, Mar 20 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Variations on Work Song and Round Midnight

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, Mar 27 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Never Ending Ageism

Several new books about ageing and ageism are being published this year and they will not go unnoticed at this blog. Meanwhile, a reader alerted me to an op-ed piece published on Friday in the Los Angeles Times that goes... Read More...

Published Mon, Mar 28 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Electronic Home Monitoring of Elders

After the story here last week about the Two Matts that includes a video they produced for an elder home monitoring system, a TGB reader in Tallinn, Estonia, left a comment with some concerns about such services: "I'm working for... Read More...

Published Mon, Mar 14 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Okay, Now I'm Pissed Off About Being Old

It was in about 1996, when I was 55 years old that I first realized I wasn't the youngest kid in the crowd anymore. That was based on nothing more than looking around the room I shared with 25 or... Read More...

Published Wed, Apr 14 2010 2:35 AM by TIME GOES BY

You Don't Lose Your Civil Rights Just Because You Get Old

When I wrote about the Dangers of Elderspeak a couple of weeks ago, I was pleased to receive an email note from Jayne Mullins about the how that kind of demeaning language can be and is, as she writes, used... Read More...

Published Wed, Sep 25 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Old Age and the Fear of Dying

It is my long-term practice to have two or three books related to old age going at once along with stacks of printouts of related materials. For the past few months, I've let that go in favor of other, lighter... Read More...

Published Wed, Sep 07 2016 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF: 28 September 2013

IMPROV EVERYWHERE: CONDUCT US Improv Everywhere is back with another delightful event: ”We put a Carnegie Hall orchestra in the middle of New York City and placed an empty podium in front of the musicians with a sign that read,... Read More...

Published Sat, Sep 28 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 17 June 2017

A PERSONAL NOTE My surgery is coming up fast and this will be the last Interesting Stuff for awhile. Like last week, it is shorter than usual - I've been kind of busy. On one item, you don't need to... Read More...

Published Sat, Jun 17 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

From Mystery Malady to Pancreatic Cancer

As I mentioned on Friday, TGB reader dkzody last week commented that she had believed pancreatic cancer is hard to diagnose and wondered what my “mystery malady” was. Today, I'll tell you my experience with that mystery and my eventual... Read More...

Published Mon, Jun 12 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Post-op

Hello Team Ronni- this is Autumn writing with an update. First and foremost, Ronni is out of surgery and headed to recovery. It took a bit longer than expected- most likely because The Good Doctor had to dance around all... Read More...

Published Tue, Jun 20 2017 10:39 PM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: The Band, Revisited

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, Jun 25 2017 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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Not Enough Geriatricians

INTERESTING STUFF – 27 February 2016

Can You Hear Me Now?

ELDER MUSIC: A Barrel of Bachs

ELDER MUSIC: Variations on Work Song and Round Midnight

Never Ending Ageism

Electronic Home Monitoring of Elders

Okay, Now I'm Pissed Off About Being Old

You Don't Lose Your Civil Rights Just Because You Get Old

Old Age and the Fear of Dying

INTERESTING STUFF: 28 September 2013

INTERESTING STUFF – 17 June 2017

From Mystery Malady to Pancreatic Cancer

Post-op

ELDER MUSIC: The Band, Revisited