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CNAs worked through risk. Home care companies scrambled

Betsy Bean - 0
Linda Stephens, 62, began caregiving at an early age in the tiny town of Siloam in Greene County....
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19-News

Nursing Home Model In Trouble

BoomAthens - 0
Life and Death in Senior Living Facilities Senior Wire Getting older in American will never be the same, after the astonishing death toll in nursing homes...
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Boomer Life

Life in Corona-time

Sharron Hannon - 0
My husband and I are mostly homebodies, so our travel in early March was unusual. First, there was the weekend in Atlanta, watching our...
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Boomer Life

Isolating Together

Kelly Capers - 0
Suddenly, everything is different. Normal changed overnight and people are adapting to new ways to communicate, to acquire supplies, to work. For some Boomers,...
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19-News

COVID19: 10 WAYS TO BE A SMART AND SAFE BOOMER RIGHT NOW

Sharron Hannon - 0
There’s an article making the rounds on Facebook about adult children who are freaking out because their Boomer parents are not taking the present...
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OLLI classes continue online

Timothy Meehan - 0
It is, or at least it was, easy to take everything around us for granted – our favorite restaurants, our walks, our routine. Sometimes...
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Legislature

Governor signs senior care safety bill

BoomAthens - 0
In a special summer session, the state legislature unanimously passed HB 987, which provides more safeguards for seniors in assisted living and personal care...
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19-News

Stuck On A Cruise Ship and Other Stories of Sudden Change

BoomAthens - 0
Athens resident Wendy Bartels flew out of Atlanta on Feb. 29 for a two-week cruise along the coast of South America with her sister,...
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Food and Facts

Strawberry Sangria: A cheerful drink in trying times

Tim Dondero - 0
Despite its ominous name, meaning “bleeding” in Spanish, the Iberian wine punch “Sangría” is a cheery, even gentle, drink in warm weather. The congenially...
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19-News

Assisted Living Residents Get Creative

Sharron Hannon - 0
Experiencing the pandemic in community-living facilities For those in community-living situations – including independent and assisted living facilities – the onset of the pandemic has...
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Boomers Write

Memoir

To everything there is a season. Some thoughts on inner harvesting

Virginia Carver - 3
There’s a small branching plant with clusters of yellow pods that burst open in the fall to reveal intense orange, jewel-like berries. In Indiana...
Memoir

The Crazy Club

Charlotte "Chip" McDaniel - 0
On my fiftieth birthday I visited Mother at her nursing home, thinking about my own mortality. Mother was hunched in her old brown recliner...
Humor

Let’s hear it for mediocrity!  

Rosemary Woodel - 0
I am tired of struggling for excellence.  At 66 years old it’s time to get comfy being average. I can put on my worn out,...
Humor

We could have chosen to have a nap instead

Allan Armitage - 1
What happens when you tell ten old guys they must do hard exercise for hours on end, then if they do well, they must...
Humor

More than one way to grandparent

Bill Levine - 0
One of my least favorite bumper stickers is “As Me About My Grandkids.” First, it is a presumptuous request. Okay, I suppose if the...
Humor

I need a new bra

Dan Akins - 1
Caregiving for his 80-year-old mother challenged one writer’s ingenuity when she told him “I Need A Bra.” Enjoy two new submissions to the Boomers Write section.

Boomers & Life

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OLLI classes continue online

Timothy Meehan - 0
It is, or at least it was, easy to take everything around us for granted – our favorite restaurants, our walks, our routine. Sometimes...
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Boomer Life

Saving Brooklyn Cemetery

Betsy Bean - 0
Meriwether Rhodes thought she had found a great place to walk her dogs. It was 2005 and she’d recently moved to the Beechwood Hills...
Memoir

Letters from Vietnam, 1968: Love that knows no boundaries.

Myrna Adams West - 5
In January and February 1968 while I was sleeping snug and warm in my dorm at Tift College, my brother Frederick was spending nights...
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Memoir

Letters from Vietnam, 1967

Myrna Adams West - 6
Small flakes of snow prickled against my face and hands and left little wet splotches on the stationery on my lap.  It was 1967,...
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Boomer Life

Athens Places in Peril African American sites lead the list

Betsy Bean - 0
Melissa Jest, African American Programs Director for the Georgia Historic Preservation Division has worked in three majority-minority cities – Philadelphia, Washington, and Savannah –...

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Sponsored

OLLI classes continue online

Timothy Meehan - 0
It is, or at least it was, easy to take everything around us for granted – our favorite restaurants, our walks, our routine. Sometimes...
Read more
Legislature

Governor signs senior care safety bill

BoomAthens - 0
In a special summer session, the state legislature unanimously passed HB 987, which provides more safeguards for seniors in assisted living and personal care...
Read more
19-News

Stuck On A Cruise Ship and Other Stories of Sudden Change

BoomAthens - 0
Athens resident Wendy Bartels flew out of Atlanta on Feb. 29 for a two-week cruise along the coast of South America with her sister,...
Read more
19-News

Nursing Home Model In Trouble

BoomAthens - 0
Life and Death in Senior Living Facilities Senior Wire Getting older in American will never be the same, after the astonishing death toll in nursing homes...
Read more
Food and Facts

Strawberry Sangria: A cheerful drink in trying times

Tim Dondero - 0
Despite its ominous name, meaning “bleeding” in Spanish, the Iberian wine punch “Sangría” is a cheery, even gentle, drink in warm weather. The congenially...
Read more
19-News

Assisted Living Residents Get Creative

Sharron Hannon - 0
Experiencing the pandemic in community-living facilities For those in community-living situations – including independent and assisted living facilities – the onset of the pandemic has...
Read more
Boomer Life

CNAs worked through risk. Home care companies scrambled

Betsy Bean - 0
Linda Stephens, 62, began caregiving at an early age in the tiny town of Siloam in Greene County. As a child, she took care...
Read more
Boomer Life

Life in Corona-time

Sharron Hannon - 0
My husband and I are mostly homebodies, so our travel in early March was unusual. First, there was the weekend in Atlanta, watching our...
Read more
Boomer Life

Isolating Together

Kelly Capers - 0
Suddenly, everything is different. Normal changed overnight and people are adapting to new ways to communicate, to acquire supplies, to work. For some Boomers,...
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Memoir

Letters from Vietnam, 1967

Myrna Adams West - 6
Small flakes of snow prickled against my face and hands and left little wet splotches on the stationery on my lap.  It was 1967,...
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Memoir

Letters from Vietnam, 1968: Love that knows no boundaries.

Myrna Adams West - 5
In January and February 1968 while I was sleeping snug and warm in my dorm at Tift College, my brother Frederick was spending nights...
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Memoir

To everything there is a season. Some thoughts on inner harvesting

Virginia Carver - 3
There’s a small branching plant with clusters of yellow pods that burst open in the fall to reveal intense orange, jewel-like berries. In Indiana...
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Urban Food Explorers

The Return of Baxter Street as a Dining Destination, Part 1

Art and Connie Crawley - 3
In just a two-block section of Baxter Street, six, locally owned restaurants have emerged to establish the locale as a dining destination. Easily within...
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Good To Know

Georgia’s Rural Churches on GPB

BoomAthens - 2
Local historian Jeff Clarke will be hosting a new series, “Saving Grace,” scheduled to begin airing on Sept. 14 on Georgia Public Broadcasting. It’s...
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