Silver Threads

Next Avenue’s Special Report includes lessons from End-Of-Life Experts, Advance Directives and end of life issues for Veterans and Black Americans

Articles from the New York Times, 55+ and the Waltonwood Senior Living Blog encourage seniors to write. Journaling, memoir, short story or novel, writers share their experience.

Topics include class reunions (yes, go!), Long Term Care statistics, choosing grandparent names, ER visit statistics and feeling blah.

Elderspeak, being spoken to like a child or called honey, sweetie or chief, is considered demeaning by most. This program describes its pervasiveness and offers tips on how to address it if it happens to you.

Nutrition Action Newsletter warns that our choosing the mainly plant-based Flexitarian, Grandparent Diet will be necessary to save our children and grandchildren from massive food supply consequences.

Articles focus on how and why one’s voice might change with age, how to deal with such changes and a brief tutorial on how our voices actually works.

AARP and New York Times articles offer information on the financial, intergenerational and social aspects of retirement planning in the US and other countries including France, Canada, Australia.

A Parade Magazine special edition science classic on Brain Power and health includes information on brain plasticity, preventing Alzheimer’s Disease, brain training and super-agers.

More seniors are flaunting old taboos and joining children and grandchildren in getting tattoos while many have been wearing body art for many years.

AARP offers a quiz comparing signs of early dementia to normal age-related memory loss along with the strange case of a rare dementia, FTD.