Aging Well in the Gorge – March 13th 2018
Have you found you are just not interested in most of your parent’s stuff? And neither are your children. Times change, and styles and tastes change accordingly. (I’m still waiting for my suede coat with the big lapels to come back into style.) For example, these days depression era furniture has little value, while quality […]
Aging Well in the Gorge March 6th 2018
What do most of us have in common? A pill box of assorted medications? We’re a little slower but smarter? A sense we’ve all been through this before? Well, yes. But what we also have in common is most of us have visited the Emergency Room at least once during the last ten years. In […]
Aging in the Gorge February 27th 2018
The thought of losing your memory is scary and it’s not reassuring knowing that by 2025 7.1 million adults 65 and older will exhibit dementia with 60% of those individuals still living in their own homes and 1 in 7 living alone. (And every time I accidently put the cheese in the freezer, I wonder, […]
Aging in the Gorge February 20th 2018
Last week you may have read an article in the Chronicle’s 2018 Life Planning Guide, encouraging parents to start a conversation with their adult children about such things as their hopes and fears, their financial situation, their personal property and long-term care. But as adult children, what should you say to your aging parents, or […]
Aging Well in the Gorge February 13th 2018
It’s a mystery! A box of exquisite, embroidered quilt blocks was found in an empty house and donated to the Center’s Quilters. Each of the sixty-three quilt blocks had a signature stitched into them, but the blocks were never made into a quilt – until now. Francie Yuhas assembled the blocks into a queen size […]
Aging Well in the Gorge February 6th 2018
It’s February, that time when you find out whether you paid Uncle Sam too much or not enough. There are many excellent tax preparers in the Mid-Columbia region, but if your tax situation is relatively simple, there is free help available through AARP Tax Aide. Since Tax Aide is supported by the AARP Foundation but […]
Aging Well in the Gorge January 30th 2018
When we were younger we didn’t spend much time thinking about our purpose in life. We knew what it was: find a job, get married and raise a family – at least that was what we were told. But now that the children have left home to find a job, get married and raise a […]
Aging Well in the Gorge January 23rd 2018
Scams have been around ever since a con-artist in the Middle Ages tried to sell a pig in a poke. But with the advances in communication through the Internet and social media, today’s scams are more common and sophisticated. And because older adults may not be as aware of the threats and how to prevent […]
Aging Well in the Gorge January 16th 2018
Last week I heard this parable of a Chinese farmer. One day a farmer’s horse ran away. His neighbor hears of his bad news and comes over to commiserate. “I hear that you lost your horse. That is bad news.” “Bad news, good news, who’s to say,” said the farmer. Well, the next day the […]
Aging Well in the Gorge January 9th 2018
With all the preconceive notions about aging and the common stereotypes about old people, one day we might hear someone singing, “Old people, what are they good for? Absolutely nothing!” But we know better. We regularly encounter older folks who demonstrate grace, humor, and kindness with tremendous spirit and grit. Often the value of older […]