Footlose Old-timer
Many years ago, you did not know what it is to be old. Oh, you knew someday you will be. But you chose to put it in the backburner; ignored it because it evoked a lot of scary images in your mind. The stories you’ve heard about old people, the movies you saw and the…
You don’t need to be lonely because you live alone, or lacking in social interaction. Take a lesson from the 2 guys in prison who, one night, looked outside of their cells through the prison bars. One guy saw the beautiful full moon set against a dark sky, dwarfing the millions of twinkling little stars…
“You have cancer,” your doctor said in a very calm and professional way. No matter how he said it, the gruesome news that you have the dreaded disease of cancer will still hit you like a vicious punch in the gut. You will slump in your chair like an empty sack. Your face gets tight; life seems…
Elderly poverty – shocking but true!Do you know how it is to be broke? A few years after retirement, I was down on my luck. I mean really down. All my business ventures failed, my retirement pension was almost depleted and I still had two kids in college. It was horrible, to say the least,…
Elderly GeekYes, they can – if you live in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness with no power, no Internet and you hunt for your own food. Otherwise, these days no one, especially seniors, can do without the use of computers or any of its derivatives.
Are you having money problems? You are not alone. A lot of people, worldwide, have the same problem. While younger adults can survive it, seniors often find it difficult to wiggle around the problem. Because of age, they have very few mitigation measures to rely on. And it is ironic that it comes at a…