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OK ladies, we’re on to you. Those trips you’ve been taking to places like Kenya, a country that is “just full of big young boys who like us older girls,” we know they’re just about uninhibited sex. One question, though: that word “big” refers to what exactly? Just remember, though, that AIDS in Africa has [...]

Autumn Series on Aging American Society on Aging
Continuing education for Professionals who work with older adults and their families
East Coast
Philadelphia, September 17-20, 2007
West Coast
San Francisco, October 8-11, 2007

It’s bad enough trying to get four people to agree on a restaurant: imagine picking a spot for a family reunion and having to book forty or fifty rooms, airline reservations, and car rentals. When you toss in each one’s amenity preferences, you may as well bag the vacation and hit the road solo.
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Money truly does buy just about anything, including a nurse to tag along on your around the world adventure, despite the fact that you might be suffering from a terminal illness or just ain’t moving the way you used to as a young tot. Companies that provide trip nurses to accompany you on your vacation [...]

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A classic shot of the Brant Point Lighthouse on Nantucket.

For those of you ladies who have had enough of the trailer park life, we suggest you pick up a copy of Charlotte Hays’ upcoming book, The Fortune Hunters. It’s a sexy tale about how to bag the money bags of your dreams. You know, the kind of guy who thinks nothing of flying you [...]

If you look at the fresh drinking water supply available to Las Vegas, then you would be hard pressed to understand how developers can continue to build their monstrosities up and down the strip. It’s unsustainable. Nobody gives a shit though; there’s too much money to be made in fleecing the middle class out of [...]

Say what you want about Fidel Castro, props to his country for fostering an environment that seduces people into living longer. The average life expectancy of a Cuban is 77.08 years; that’s eleven years above the world average, my friends. Even better, Dr. Eugenio Selman, one of Fidel’s personal physicians, has created the “120 Years [...]

Cover art for old magazines, especially science fiction and murder mysteries usually provides instantaneous titillation and gotcha kind of story hooks. This cover was done for Imaginary Tales, a science fiction magazine, by H. W. McCauley. Don’t you just miss those days of a well-placed bobber and the long hair of a mermaid!
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Getting older means you get to indulge in your hobbies instead of worrying about how to make a buck. One quirky way to enjoy your leisure time is learning about falconry at the British School of Falconry at the Equinox Resort in Manchester, Vermont. Beware of the beak!
I just had lunch at the Equinox. The [...]

You’re either a book person or you’re not. The thrill of venturing into a used bookstore either represents the apotheosis of leisure time or a one-way ticket to verbal hell. It’s more than just being a book person, though. It’s about loving words and understanding how they define political, business, and social relationships.
You can [...]

For those of you heading to New York, check out The Year of Magical Thinking starring Vanessa Redgrave as Joan Didion. The play is about how Joan Didion’s husband of 40 years, writer John Gregory Dunne, suddenly died from a massive coronary as they sat down to eat dinner. What makes it even more poignant [...]

Need to get to London faster? I guess standing on a grate and pretending to be the Queen Mother channeling Marilyn Monroe’s spirit up your dress does the trick. Who is this ad supposed to appeal to? Pensioners popping Viagra with a jones for the Queen Mum or retired blokes watching Faster Pussycat for the [...]

Florida is losing its luster as a retirement destination. Hurricanes, tornadoes, and outrageous insurance premiums do not make for a carefree retirement. Georgia, sensing an opportunity to grab some of that retiree population, is gussying up their perks package. If you’re 62 and over the you can attend college for free. The governor promises no [...]

When you visit a vacation place as a kid, the chances of returning to that place as an adult with your own kids is pretty much a gimme. Disney has known this forever. They hook your imagination as a kid with cute characters and then wrap your emotions around a million products in the likeness [...]

In the middle of the Winter, nothing looks more appealing than a sunny beach and a beautiful resort. The Amanyara Villas sure made us wild for a spur-of-the-moment vacation. Aman Resorts are located all over the world, but the one shown here, in Turks & Caicos, looks especially inviting.

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Remember Gerald Levin, the architect of that disastrous merger between Time Warner and AOL? Probably not, but don’t worry, he walked off with a sweet retirement package. Now that he has all that time on his hands, he’s disappeared from the world by opening Moonview Sanctuary. The spa thing has been going full tilt for [...]

If you’re traveling to San Antonio, Texas by wheelchair and need internet access, then the Good Bytes Cafe is for you. Universal design reigns supreme here, providing technology access that eliminates the usual barriers to use.

Designed to provide technology resources for individuals with disabilities or barriers to work. The latest in assistive technologies for individuals [...]

For those who enjoy the cruise ship life, get ready for the Genesis by Aker Yards. It will have the capacity to carry up to 6,000 passengers and will measure 410 meters (the Titanic was 268 meters) long. Now imagine all those passengers with norovirus
and you have to wonder why anyone would be fool [...]

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It’s nice to see a father and daughter bonding over shots in a bar…at least I think that’s his daughter. Who knows.