
Mobility and Independence
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…
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Ken Lee on 'Retirement But Only of Sorts'
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…
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The 90s
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…
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Enhancing Cognitive Prowess
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…
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Collington Residents Association Website Now Up
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,…
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Continuing Care
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…
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Independent Living — You Can’t Beat It!
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…
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A Pet Peeve: 'Sexperts'
By Frances Kolarek — One of my pet peeves is the young author who sits down to his computer and grinds out a book about aging, what it’s like, how…
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A Loss of Laughter
By Frances Kolarek — For years, Gloria Ericson supplied her fans here at Collington with columns about problems we encounter in our daily lives that brought us gales of laughter.…
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