04 September 2021
Later life is a time of reassessment and reflection. What sense do we make of the lives we have lived? How do we come to terms with illness and death? What do we want to give to others as we grow older?
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03 September 2021
The quest for better burgers often focuses, wrongly, on the toppings. For Labor Day, let’s instead pack flavor into the meat itself.
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02 September 2021
The sharp shock of the coronavirus recession pushed Social Security a year closer to insolvency but left Medicare’s exhaustion date unchanged, the government reported Tuesday in a counterintuitive assessment that deepens the uncertainty around the nation’s bedrock retirement programs.
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01 September 2021
At the end of June, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell, D-MI and Senator Bob Casey, D-PA, introduced the “Better Care Better Jobs Act,”(S.2210) to widen access to Medicaid’s home and community based services for low-income elderly and disabled people, and to improve pay for the frontline caregivers who provide home care.
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31 August 2021
When I encountered my first giant Sequoia in the Mariposa Grove, I could not tilt my head far back enough to see the top. Walking around the trunk practically required a GPS.
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30 August 2021
Spurred by decades of complaints about the high cost of hearing aids, Congress passed a law in 2017 to allow over-the-counter sales, with hopes it would boost competition and lower prices.
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