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By Frances Kolarek — Alzheimer’s disease demands a very special kind of care, which Collington provides at a cost decidedly to your advantage under its LifeCare contract. Whereas care in…

Even two decades later, Mastercard’s nostalgic commercial reappears this time each year to coincide with the advent of the baseball season. As a son, and now as a father, the message hits home (bad pun intended).

By Frances Kolarek — One day Hazel took a look at her well-ordered life in a Midwest city—a successful career from which she had recently retired, a comfortable home, an…

By Frances Kolarek — It’s crazy what you hear nowadays! Chocolate is good for us? Coffee too? And a glass of red wine from time to time? Yes. New research…

By Frances Kolarek — “I Want to Hold Your Hand” was a smash hit by the Beetles. Now “Hold My Hand” is the title of an article in a recent…

By Frances Kolarek — Some 25 years ago, when Betty Friedan at 72 felt she had done enough for the women’s movement, she transferred her attention to the aging. In…

By Frances Kolarek — Finally! Finally I feel vindicated. I have been whining and sniveling for years because books about aging all seem to be written by young people who…

By Frances Kolarek — During the last days of 2015, The New York Times devoted three full pages to a group of New Yorkers in their 80s and 90s, including…

By Frances Kolarek — The son of a late resident of a Kendal Continuing Care Retirement Community wrote: “When my mom lived there, she had all the freedom she could…