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Here’s the setup: an 85-year-old Baltimore woman who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, cataracts and a benign brain tumor can function fine in an assisted living facility but doesn’t qualify for Medicaid aid unless she goes into a nursing. The state of Maryland was told to reconsider her plight [...]

Nice to read the Dowell, Illinois village board is purchasing weather radios for its elderly citizens. One suggestion: instead of buying radios, maybe the money would be better spent on filling their oil tanks…knowing it’s 15 below zero doesn’t help much on a fixed income when you’re consuming prescription pills as if they were Halloween [...]

Central Park now includes leaf rakers instead of leaf blowers…and the rakers, apparently, are older ladies with plenty of time on their hands, so to speak. New York Post’s Page Six describes them as dowagers. It’s all part of our country’s new foreign policy to wean ourselves off Mideast oil. Imagine a world where people [...]

Leave it to the Bush Administration to hire a bunch of lawyers to draft legislation that inserts a few key words into a Medicaid bill in order to influence the use of birth control on college campuses across the nation. Maybe this administration needs to go back and read the fine print of the Constitution…you [...]

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Former Vice President Al Gore showed up with Tipper Gore at the 35th International Emmy Awards at the New York Hilton wearing a band-aid on his chin. No word on why yet? Did he have a pre-cancerous growth removed from his chin? Did he cut his chin shaving? Hopefully Contessa Brewer at MSNBC [...]

Who knew that doing time for a crime would lead to prisons providing “prescription drugs, wheeled walkers, a stretcher and a box of discreet, underwear-like adult diapers.” Such is the life of elderly prison inmates in Japan. They still are required to perform manual labor tasks for 6 hours a day. One inmate is 88. [...]

The one thing researchers seem incapable of figuring out is what makes the human mind happy. Is it money? Expensive objects? A house on the beach. Is it material versus spiritual? The answer, my friends, is not the leaves falling off the money tree in your background. It all boils down to one thing: social [...]

Presidential candidate John McCain has a perception problem: people, at least some people, think he’s too old to run. Facts: McCain is 71; he’s suffered from skin cancer. Have you ever studied photos of presidents before they took office with photos of when they left office? The job of being president is stressful, man. [...]

Here’s the deal: when Baby Boomers started working for U.S. corporations, there was an agreement to fund retirement and health care benefits. As the years passed, the obligation to pay out these benefits continued to accrue. There was no doubt that one day these benefits would be paid out. There was no doubt about the [...]

Watch how a grown man asserts his chicken rights after preaching about the loss of a values like politeness and good manners to a teenager. Some call it a generation gap, others might say this is precisely why humanity hasn’t quite given up on starting wars and screwing the next generation.

There’s nothing like coming across an article that offers up a point of view that otherwise never would have considered. Maureen Kahlert from Australia questioned whether Baby Boomers are likely to have an impact on public library systems. She reached some provocative conclusions, including:

Currently libraries offer a range of services for both active and [...]

They say laughter increases your time on this planet. Please, join this German small person (midget is so 20th Century) for a hardy har har because one day the laughter will stop. Might we suggest you videotape yourself laughing like him so your grandkids can enjoy your sense of humor in the future to take [...]

Get ready to bend over and take it like a desperate polar bear floating on an iceberg from the heating oil companies this winter. Like clock work, analysts are predicting the cost of heating oil will rise as if there were no Congress to regulate the companies selling us the stuff. The markets, these days, [...]

While it may be true that the cost of labor in China is cheaper than in America, the true cost of manufacturing products abroad is finally showing up in their standard of living. When you can’t breathe the air in your cities because you have no pollution control legislation and you can’t drink the water [...]

It’s human to desire children, especially when they are conceived out of your own DNA and come out bearing a pretty good resemblance to those who created the little tyke. When mother nature doesn’t cooperate, though, and the parts fail to produce offspring, should that be the end of the genetic road to conception? Is [...]

This old-new story blows me away. The executive director of the New Hampshire Republican party thought it was a good idea to jam phones so seniors and others being offered a ride to the voting polls were unable to request a ride. WTF!!! This is how a democracy works? A partisan official decides to implement [...]

How refreshing to see Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa actually using his position of power to pester those long-term care insurance companies who love to collect premiums but often fall short when when it comes to paying out after the insured winds up in the nursing home. The racket of collecting huge premiums and [...]

Money may not buy love or happiness but it sure does buy a cadre of lawyers to fight for more of it. Don Felder, a former member of the Eagles band, was booted from the group after penning one of their most famous hits, Hotel California. The fight to reminisce about those drug-fueled years filled [...]

Words sometimes really do have a power to change the perception of the world we live in. New York Times’ columnist, Thomas Friedman, has officially declared the politics driving the purpose of America’s existence in the world over, i.e, the global war on terror as a bogeyman belongs in President Bush’s basement for future use [...]