I have a question for the seniors who read this blog - not the caregivers, not the family members, but the seniors themselves. How do you feel about birthdays? Do you like them to be celebrated? Do you appreciate that you are having another one? Or would you rather not be reminded of your mortality [...]

Do you envy the people who know just what to say and when to say it?
Here are 5 of some of the most well-known comments/lines/insults from 10 of our favorite seniors:

"I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything until noon. Then it’s time for my nap."- Bob Hope
"Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people [...]

Sometimes, doctors can forget what makes their practice personal - what makes the practice of medicine treating people, rather than treating the illness. Unfortunately, this happens all too often, especially the elderly.
The journal Annals of Internal Medicine published this letter that a senior had written to his wife’s doctor after her death. I think all [...]

An 107 years old, you can imagine that Ann Nixon Cooper of Atlanta, Georgia, has seen some pretty historic events in her time. But now, she can add watching Barack Obama become President of the United States.
Ms Cooper says she knew Martin Luther King when he was a child, so she does go back a [...]

We know the routine. As many of us get older, we have a few more aches and pains than we used to. Some of us develop chronic illness or serious ones. With those changes to our body usually comes medications and trips to the doctor. But, there really is truth to "laughter is the best [...]