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Caregiving

Q&A with Eve Anthony

Betsy Bean - January 9, 2021 0

The Athens Community Council on Aging was forced to make a quick pivot virtually overnight when the pandemic hit in March. Publisher Betsy Bean...

Caregiving

Nursing Home Model In Trouble

Alan M. Schlein - July 3, 2020 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...

Caregiving

Isolating Together

Kelly Capers - July 1, 2020 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,...

Caregiving

Social Distancing Shouldn’t Lead to Social Isolation

Debra Tyler-Horton - July 1, 2020 0

Even in the best of times, social isolation is a significant problem in the aging population. In Georgia, 669,000 people over the age of...

Caregiving

From AARP: Creating Successful Caregiver/Life Balance

Debra Tyler-Horton - January 25, 2020 0

Family caregivers perform unpaid care valued at $470 billion a year, helping their loved ones stay at home—and out of costly institutional care, often...

Caregiving

Caregiving: Where to start

Betsy Bean - April 19, 2019 0

Megan Vogt is immersed in the issues of caregiving. As program manager for the Aging and Disability Resource Connection (ADRC) at the NE Georgia...

Caregiving

Who will care for us?

Betsy Bean - January 20, 2019 1

A PBS report last summer painted an alarming picture of the pressures that are building on the home care industry. Caring for the aged...

Caregiving

Caregiving Calls for Adjustments of All Kinds

Arlene Williams and Betsy Bean - October 27, 2018 1

“What am I going to do? I have loved him all my life.” I didn’t know what to say, my mother wasn’t really asking...

Caregiving

Worth It! – July 2016

BoomAthens - June 15, 2016 0

Caregiver Support Group. Need some emotional or practical support with caregiving for a loved one with Alzheimer's or other dementia issues? The Athens Community...

Boomer Life

Moving Their “Retirement” Home – All 300,000 Pounds.

Betsy Bean - June 15, 2016 0

While many boomers are downsizing their living space or are planning to do so, Tom and Beth Allen have enlarged theirs. In fact, they...

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Boomer Life

Home Ec Revisited: More Than Cooking and Sewing

Theresa Rice - March 21, 2017 1

Boomer boys took shop and auto mechanics in junior and senior high. We young ladies studied Home Economics. We were introduced to kitchens and...

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Boomer Life

Uber and Lyft

Saleen Martin - January 19, 2017 2

The money can be very good; the hassles mostly minor, and the hours totally flexible, say some of the boomers driving locally for the...

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Memoir

Genealogical Surprises! Love Letters Reveal a Mother I Never Knew

Doris Y. Kadish - June 15, 2016 0

I retired from the UGA departments of romance languages and women's studies in 2011 after a lifetime of studying and teaching. And for all...

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Boomer Life

The Acquisitive Generation Begins to Downsize

Betsy Bean - November 11, 2016 0

Teresa Howard, 59, and her husband, Dallas, 63, are anxious to sell their 4,200 sq.f. house in Lawrenceville to move closer to their daughter...

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Caregiving

Social Distancing Shouldn’t Lead to Social Isolation

From AARP: Creating Successful Caregiver/Life Balance

Caregiving: Where to start

Who will care for us?

Caregiving Calls for Adjustments of All Kinds

Worth It! – July 2016

Moving Their “Retirement” Home – All 300,000 Pounds.

Home Ec Revisited: More Than Cooking and Sewing

Uber and Lyft

Genealogical Surprises! Love Letters Reveal a Mother I Never Knew

The Acquisitive Generation Begins to Downsize

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Boomers Write

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Letters from Vietnam, 1967