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Families have often been obliged to consider a nursing home when aging at home no longer seemed viable. However, now there is an alternative. They can purchase a MEDCottage, a ...

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Aging in place has its definite advantages. It grants seniors more specialized care and privacy than might an institutional setting. However, it also brings a tough question in its wake. ...

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I finally broke down and bought a Kindle but I held out for as long as I could. For more than a year, I watched my husband read from the glow ...

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Aging at home has become a buzz word. And that is understandable because this arrangement has strong selling points: Elders receive personalized attention. However, unless it isnn accomplished by careful ...

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Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night jolted by the fact that I am now 50 years old. For a brief moment, I think it’s all just ...

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Many sexual problems start  much earlier than age 40, but after that they just seem to escalate at a rapid clip. This phenomenon is often viewed as a “normal” consequence ...

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A couple years ago, a video of an older woman dancing salsa with a young buck 40 years her junior circulated all over the internet. Rumors flew that she was ...

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Sounds great, but also sounds impossible, right? Well, I can’t promise that you’ll be able to turn back actual time, but I can promise that if you’re ready to put ...

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I know they always teach us not to allow ourselves to get upset if someone – especially a love interest – doesn’t call us back after we’ve tried them a ...

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I was walking along at a pretty good clip, a quarter of the way through my Daily Constitutional when I met her. Almost clear of the driveway, I caught, out of ...

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