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Creating a New Image of Age

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…

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Experts on Aging

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…

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A Celebration of Age

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…

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Making Informed Choices

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…

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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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