On my 61st birthday, I faced a choice: spend the rest of my life in pain with declining mobility, take pain meds and/or have surgery, or exercise regularly. Two summers ago, I fell in my yard and broke my ankle. That was followed by weeks of pain as I gradually moved from crutches to a walker to a cane. I was …
When I returned to school nearly 25 years after completing my last degree, I was in for a shock. All my life I have loved reading, but reading the textbook in that first class was a real challenge. I would get to the bottom of the page and realize I couldn’t remember anything about what I had just read. Was this …
A common belief about aging is that people lose some or all of their hearing by the time they get to their 70s. Sometimes, the first thing they notice is that it is harder to understand what people are saying on television. The music and sound effects are more than loud enough, but what the characters say, especially when music is …
