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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…

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…

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.…

By Frances Kolarek — My friend Marion recently celebrated her 90th birthday — a big deal, a big day with two separate parties — one with family, one with friends.…

By Frances Kolarek — ”I am not aware of any other factor in medicine that has a greater impact on survival than the healing power of love and intimacy. Not…