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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…

By Frances Kolarek — My best wishes for the New Year to all who are kind enough to read my blog. Apologies for the hiatus. Here goes with a new…

By Collingtonian Ken Lee — I write to my younger friends out there in The World, from my comfortable setting here in a somewhat grandly titled Collington Episcopal Life Care…

By Frances Kolarek — I got so much feedback from my belch at AARP for not paying more attention to the 90s age group, I realized I better put up…

By Frances Kolarek — Old songs, old favorites, we sing them over and over. And here I go again, because Richard A. Friedman, a widely published professor of clinical psychology…

The Collington Residents Association Website is now officially launched at http://www.collingtonresidents.org.   The site includes access to many materials useful to our community, such as the Courier, the Resident Manual, maps,…

By Frances Kolarek —  Feeling under the weather last month, I straggled into our Clinic and said, “I’m sick.” I was escorted into a private examining room where a nurse…

By Frances Kolarek — “Over-caring for a child is bad for the child, but over-caring for an elderly parent is not bad for the parent. Being overly vigilant may not…