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REFLECTIONS: The Long View by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Saul Friedman ( bio ) writes the twice-monthlyReflections column for Time Goes By in which he comments on news, politics and social issues fr ... Read on »

Aging into Sentimentality by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health While clearing out my mother's home after she died, I marveled at how many videos she had of the cutesy variety of animal movies. Born Free, Harry and Tonto, Lady and the Tram ... Read on »

ELDER MUSIC: Ian Tyson by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health You never know who you're going to meet on the internet and I came to know Peter Tibbles ( bio here ) via email over the past couple of years. His extensive knowledge of most ... Read on »

Gray Matters: Health Insurance Companies by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Saul Friedman ( bio ) writes the weekly Gray Matters column which appears here each Saturday. His Reflections column, in which he comments on ... Read on »

How Well Do You Sleep? by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health As I have undoubtedly mentioned here from time to time, I don't sleep worth a damn. If it's not that I need to pee, it's waking at ungodly early hours - like 2:30AM - without ... Read on »

The Cult of Manhattan Tower by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Two or three times over the life of this blog, I have written about a 1945 recording titled Manhattan Tower. I was a little girl of no more than five or six when my parents ob ... Read on »

The Secret War on Social Security and Medicare by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Certainly you recall that back in 2004 and 2005, then-President Bush put all the substantial muscle of his office into Social Security “reform.” He and his surroga ... Read on »

Social Media Jabberwocky by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health There is hardly a moment in Crabby Old Lady's online life when she is not being exhorted to tweet, Digg, Facebook, Yahoo Buzz, etc. everything she reads, hears, eats, believes ... Read on »

Medicare Sign Up Starts Now, and More on Elderblogs by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health MEDICARE SIGN UP The annual enrollment in Medicare Part B (Medigap, also called supplemental) and Part D (prescription drug) is open now and until 31 December.As noted in a po ... Read on »

ELDER MUSIC: Some Early Blues Women by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health You never know who you're going to meet on the internet and I came to know Peter Tibbles ( bio here ) via email over the past couple of years. His extensive knowledge of most ... Read on »

GRAY MATTERS: Medicare 2010 by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Saul Friedman ( bio ) writes the weekly Gray Matters column which appears here each Saturday. His Reflections column, in which he comments on ... Read on »

Elderblog List Update – November 2009 by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health With hundreds of blogs on the Elderbloggers List, I don't often visit all of them so I'm deeply grateful to Deejay, who blogs these days at The Chinese Mirror about Chinese-la ... Read on »

Health Care Reform and Women's Rights by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health When the House of Representatives passed their version of a health care reform bill last Saturday, the shocker for me was the Stupak amendment ( full text here ) which would b ... Read on »

ELDER NEWS: 11 November 2009 by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Several items of interest to elders today, and let's start with the holiday – it is Veterans' Day, the time we set aside to honor the men and women who put their lives a ... Read on »

REFLECTIONS: On the Congress by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Saul Friedman ( bio ) writes the twice-monthlyReflections column for Time Goes By in which he comments on news, politics and social issues fr ... Read on »

Religion's Intrusion into Health Care Reform by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health So the House finally passed a health care reform bill late Saturday night. Barely. The vote was 220 to 215. I felt more relief than elation.Now the Senate needs to produce a m ... Read on »

ELDER MUSIC: Promised Land by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health You never know who you're going to meet on the internet and I came to know Peter Tibbles ( bio here ) via email over the past couple of years. His extensive knowledge of most ... Read on »

GRAY MATTERS: Long Term Care by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Saul Friedman ( bio ) writes the weekly Gray Matters column which appears here each Saturday. HisReflectionscolumn, in which he comments on n ... Read on »

“Gray Matters” Moves from Newsday to Time Goes By by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Regular Time Goes By readers know the twice-monthly Reflections column written by 80-year-old, veteran journalist, Saul Friedman ( Bio here ). Reflections has become one of th ... Read on »

Health Care Reform (Again) by Ronni B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health [ Where Elder Blog:Clarence Bowles of Southern Roomers added his photo to the Where Elders Blog feature. You can see it here, and you can add yours to the collection too. Inst ... Read on »

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