Aging in Place
By Frances Kolarek — Aging in place is a concept coming up for a harder look. “We tend to think of aging in place as staying where we lived during…
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Hearing About A New Broader View of Family — See a Great Plan B Photo at the Bottom
By Richard Zorza — Professor Ertman of the University of Maryland Law School spoke at Collington a few nights ago. She is author of Love’s Promises: How Formal and Informal Contracts…
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Mishearings
By Frances Kolarek — I am deaf. And it’s a huge pain in the neck. And that other four-letter place. My hero, Oliver Sacks, wrote recently in The New York…
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Bridge Does Double Duty
By Frances Kolarek — The headline over a page-long article on bridge in a recent AARP Bulletin reads: “Playing your cards right can help keep you sharp.” Bridge does double…
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A Day and a Year in the Life of a Committee Chair
By Kendrick Lee — Joining a CCRC is a piece of work, approached by “newbies” in their own way. My wife and I came to Collington nine months ago, and started…
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Changing Aging
By Collington Administrative Intern Jessica Golden — It is no secret the Boomers are aging. There is also no pretense about the large number of older Americans hitting “retirement” age…
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Red Hat Warning!
By Frances Kolarek — Warning! “When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat that doesn’t go and doesn’t suit me . . .” I…
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A Tribute to Oliver Sacks
By Frances Kolarek — He has been called “The poet Laureate of Medicine.” And over the years I have read his books with fascination. A neurologist, his stories of patients…
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Eye of the beholder
By Frances Kolarek — I go back so far—See how I ducked that ugly word ”old?”—that I remember when the age of 30 was over the hill and a lady…
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