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By Frances Kolarek — My skeptical eyebrow twitches uncontrollably when I hear about tricks that will keep your wits razor sharp, your brain ticking like a Rolex watch and also…

By Cory P. Hall, Collington Residency Counselor — “You’re never too old to set a new goal or dream a new dream.”— C.S. Lewis I went to visit my friend,…

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…