Aging Well

As you get older, you go through physiological alterations that will trigger snags in brain functions. You’ll take more time to learn new things and to remember stored info. You won’t be as fast as you once were. Actually, it is frequently confused this delaying of the mental capability for true memory loss. But in nearly all situations, if you allow yourself some extra time, the info will come back to mind. Is there anything you can do to avoid this natural memory loss? Photo by Georgios...Read Full Story

Reading the newspaper is just so much fun these days. Especially if you move right on to the inside pages. On Saturday my husband found an article in an "inside section" of our local paper telling about a new TV Channel called Retirement Living TV available on on satellite TV. Designed for ages 50+, it features health, discussion, seniors living and much more. Charles Hirschhorn, a former Disney Executive, is its chief creative officer. One of the shows is hosted by Gary Collins. So it seems...Read Full Story

Old Pueblo Historic District, Tucson, AZYou've always wanted to just travel and you are retiring within the next year or so.Now you are beginning to think about selling the house, putting all the furniture in storageand giving it a try.So now is the time to take the leap!!!You are in for so much fun. You can take the equity from your house, buy an RV free and clear have plenty left over to put down on a small condo or loft when you decide where you want to spend a small part of the year in a...Read Full Story

My Dad at home in Tobago by Steve Bennett Does this guy look happy, or what? Life is good these days when you’re my Dad. Originally from San Fernando, a small town in southern Trinidad, he’s the eldest of 9 brothers and sisters, all of whom lived together in a modest 4-bedroom/1-bath house. One of his brothers still lives in the house today, so I got a chance to see it a few years ago. Recalling that visit now as I write this, I can’t believe all those people co-existed in such a small space...Read Full Story

the comfort of a familiar facethe joy of a loving voicethe warmth of a welcome homethe people we love.Today I took stock of what is going on in the Waiting Room for Heaven. The doll houses have stood empty for almost 6 month now. But as each day passes, more dolls return for at least one more year. Things do change and new dolls come to live but the old dolls make it feel like home until the younger dolls need to take their place. And so here is how it goes. Wanda is back. You remember Wanda...Read Full Story

Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, a company located in the Mecca for biotech, Cambridge Mass. and which was started by investor Christoph Westphal, is betting the farm that a naturally occurring compound found in Red Wine, called Resveratrol, will prove to be the fountain of youth.  It seems to work by turning on an enzyme called SIRT-1, an ancient adaptive mechanism which has evolved in humans to inoculate the body against disease during periods when food was scarce. In fact, it has been observed...Read Full Story

Passou a maior parte de minha infância e mocidade na San Diego, Calífornia. Morávamos no bairro de Point Loma/Ocean Beach, onde moravam a comunidade portuguesa de San Diego também. Esta experiência começava meu interesse pelas coisas portuguesas.A Igreja Saint Agnes foi--e continua ser--a igreja da esta comunidade portuguesa. Há actualmente menos das actividades em língua portuguesa que já 30 ou 40 anos. Mas um grupo fundado no ano 1967 para pessoas de 55 anos de idade e superiores junta-se...Read Full Story

Retirement is a stage of life that has many meanings - for some, it's easing into the inviting comfort of the proverbial rocking chair to slow down, relax and languish in the lullaby of life's final season. For others, however, it is when life truly begins - no excuses and nothing but time to finally live out the dreams and fantasies that preoccupied a fatigued imagination during seemingly endless workday hours. Your particular definition of retirement will greatly impact whether country...Read Full Story

Today more than ever before, American seniors are choosing to retire abroad. In 2004, an estimated 255,000 Social Security checks were mailed to countries outside of the United States. In the past twenty years, the advent of new technology, namely the Internet, has spawned the global community. No matter where you call home, accessing bank accounts, filing taxes, and communicating with friends and family, is just a mouse click away. This in itself has made retiring overseas more feasible and...Read Full Story

My mother is 78 years old and still does not know how to live a good life. Growing up in the 1930's, my mother was a dainty, naive, black-haired Canadian beauty - pampered and protected by hard-working parents living in a small, thriving railroad town on the rugged northeast coast of Newfoundland. Geographically sheltered from the effects of the Great Depression, carefree adolescent years were spent experiencing the best of what her embryonic, snow globe world had to offer. Perpetually...Read Full Story