Posts Tagged ‘aging’

    You can't hide your true colors as you approach the autumn of your life. - Author Unknown   The Fall is coming The soft-late-summer-sun streamed through the cracked door the other morning; illuminating a dark corner of the gym. Along with the weakened glow, the first sign of fall blew in as crumpled golden and red leaves, intruding and dispersing haphazardly amongst the dumbbells. This reminded me of the pending change of season just off shore. In an attempt to hold off the inevitable (fall) I closed the door. This served only to

    I often hear people say that a person suffering from Alzheimer's is not the person they knew. I wonder to myself - Who are they then? --Bob DeMarco   The Present-absence and the long-good-bye of Alzheimer’s disease is heart-breaking. I sat with my once brilliant friend, Frances Gabe, holding her hand and longing for the excursions into the deep end of ideas that we once shared. But that is in the past; to quote Chuck Heston quoting Shakespeare in his statement, they bade farewell

"The woods are lovely dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep." -Robert Frost   In life, if you're lucky and the gods are so inclined, you'll run into a positive force and life will forever change---for the good. Early one bright October morning in 1992, my fate was about to transform and set me on a course  that continues to this day...Here is the story I sent to Marika Stone of 2young2retire.com in 2001, and she went on to post: Mavis Lindgren: Grandma Wears Running Shoes A

    Betrayal is the only truth that sticks. -Arthur Miller   I’ve struggled with whether to post this personal experience because in some ways it feels like a betrayal; and I was also concerned about committing social suicide with colleagues. What won out was my commitment to be part of the solution—and so here is my story: Aging in Place: A Most Personal Story My mother had open heart surgery this past January; she is 84 and frail. She lives with her brother (76) and sister (85) in a small and very cluttered house…the house that I grew up

  “Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.” -Stephen R. Covey   Stephen Covey’s seminal work on how to create a better human species titled “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” was first published in 1989 and has sold over 15 million copies in 38 languages since first its release. The concepts are timeless and can be broadly applied as I have done here with aging in place. What follows is The