Growing Bolder Community

From a friend’s suggestion that I interview her amazingly energetic 90-year old neighbor for a freelance article came the inspiration for this project on active nonagenarians. My personal experience with aging had been less than positive. Over a decade ago my mother, in her eighties and saddled with dementia, lived in a nursing home surrounded by peers with vacant stares and immobile...

We turn more and more to medications to solve our health problems. Although they usually can correct symptoms they do not necessarily correct the problem that is causing the problem. Many problems can be made worse by sleep deprivation and some may look like one health issue and actually be an sign of a sleep problem. Is it depression or a sleep issue? Many people who have a sleep issues...

A friend of mine wrote to me over Christmas, and described her year in review as the year that she broke up with her boyfriend, her dog died, and she'd had a root canal. But, she added, if she was looking at it through my eyes, she'd say she now had the opportunity for unfettered dating, she could travel without worrying about finding a kennel, and she still had all her original teeth. I...

I don’t know since I am not a doctor or nutritionist, but what I do know is elderly...

Over the past decade, nutritional advice on how much and what kind of fat to eat to keep our weight in check has shifted much like the colors and shapes in a revolving kaleidoscope. Ten years ago, most of us thought that eating fat would make us fat. Based on this belief, consumers sought to eliminate all fat from their food. In response to the demand, food manufacturers rushed to fill grocery...