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The Roman philosopher Seneca once said, “Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.” Yet in this day and age, kindness appears to be too often in short supply: we have divisive, brutish politics, brutal armies destroying innocent people, and cities and rural areas in…

With Mother’s Day just a short time from now, and with the ongoing supply chain problems and postal service delays we’ve all experienced (not to mention reduced buying power due to inflation), we all need some ideas for easy, affordable, and accessible ways to celebrate the moms, grandmas and other…

It’s been long assumed that most people want to grow older living in the community rather than moving to an assisted living facility or some other institutional setting (though remember, as we posted recently, “aging-in-place” often necessitates outside support and communal efforts to be successful). Demographically, it’s been estimated that…

The French philosopher Albert Camus once said,  “We continue to shape our personality all our life.” In fact, science appears to bear that out. While some of us might view our personalities to be set in stone from a young age, in fact, it appears many factors go into shaping…

By Alice Herb   As I watched the Senate hearings on now-confirmed Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, I was reminded of an article I read years ago that maintained the following: Girls whose fathers encouraged and/or supported them to pursue careers usually not open to women often succeeded when they did…

We’ve previously posted about possible connections between older women and the risk of cognitive impairment. Now, with newly published analysis from the University of Michigan showing that almost 50% of all deaths recorded by Medicare include a diagnosis of dementia, concern about how we can best lower our risk of…