Articles

All the recent storms and flooding should make us aware of the need for emergency preparedness.  This is especially true for vulnerable

A perk of working in the field of aging is awareness of population shifts. Through the 20th century, advances in medicine and improvement in working

Some call it Karma, what goes around comes around. Others would say you can’t sit and wait for your best life to happen, you have to take steps to

Loneliness is the 82-year-old man who celebrated his birthday alone after not speaking to anyone except the cashier at the grocery store for an entire

Can I hug you? Not a question we hear very often, but in this day of social media, high public scrutiny and political correctness, people are

A few weeks ago, we celebrated labor, as we do every year. But the activities are less demonstrative than in earlier years. Few parades, few

Thirty-two dollars. That’s how much it cost to make 35 pints of salsa, using only fresh, southwest Michigan vegetables. The value, however, is

It’s never too late to live life on your own terms. Norma, a 90-year-old from northern Michigan, exemplified that lesson. Just two days after her