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From Harvard Health Publishing / Harvard Medical School “An older adult is treated in the emergency room for a fall every 11 seconds, with injuries

You are officially retired. You got the gold watch or the going-away party; or if you were an entrepreneur, you took down the shingle, closed

Let’s say you or your adult children think it’s time to investigate an assisted living facility. Where do you begin your search and then, how

How far back can you remember telephones? If you’re around my age you may remember when there was only one in the house, and it

Ask older people what we most fear about aging, and the answer is likely to be losing our independence. What exactly does that mean? At

Getting sick is a part of life. There may be people who have never experienced illness, but I haven’t met them. When we were children,

When we talk about COVID, we usually do so in terms of numbers—dates, numbers of cases and deaths, numbers of vaccinated or not, numbers of

There are two groups of people when it comes to the subject of money. One is made up of people who have educated themselves on

We’ve all heard about the dangers of falling, but somehow, we don’t think those warnings pertain to us. Like so many other unforeseen events in

I can’t tell you how many conversations I’ve had lately about preparing for the end of life and how few people actually do it. It

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