Recommended Podcast: Don’t Act Your Age
Did you know there are over 660,000 podcasts floating around in the world? Yep, you read that correctly: over half a million podcasts, eager for your ears. So how do you find that needle in the haystack? Well, here's a podcast I recommend, hands down, for anyone...
Celebrate Caregivers in November with the Alzauthors eBook Sale!
Did you know that November is National Caregiver Appreciation Month? This is an excellent time to recognize the long hours, sacrifice, patience and love -- not to mention hard won humor! -- all caregivers bring to the task of caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's...
Why 14% of Millennial Caregivers Stop Working
We often think of caregiving as something done mostly by baby boomers, but a new report titled, Millennials and Dementia Caregiving in the United States highlights the reality that millennial caregivers account for almost one out of four caregivers for those with any...
The Overlooked Demographic in the Opioid Crisis
“You Don’t Respect What You Don’t Inspect.” These words of wisdom from Peter Rosenberger, the self-described crash test dummy of caregivers who I recently interviewed for The Agewyz Podcast apply in so many ways to caregivers -- everyday warriors who care for family...
100 Episodes Strong
I’m old enough to remember watching the televised Watergate hearings, and today’s live broadcast of former FBI Director James Comey testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee was no less riveting. It was so hard to look away from the television, I nearly...
Why I Chose To Bare All For The New York Times
It's not every day you get a call from a reporter asking to profile you for an article in the New York Times. But that's what happened about a month ago after journalist Mark Miller got my contact information from Grace Whiting of the National Alliance for...
The Agewyz Manifesto
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BREAKING: US Senate Passes RAISE Family Caregivers Act
Caregivers finally have something to celebrate. Over the summer the RAISE Family Caregivers Act steadily picked up cosponsors, both in the House and the Senate -- proof that the issue of caregiving had bipartisan support. The Act goes a long way to providing support...
Vacations For Baby Boomers Involve Many Generations
My big fat Greek upbringing involved lots of family vacations with multiple generations of family members. There were road trips at Christmas from DC to Toronto to visit my mother's parents, summer getaways to Rehoboth Beach with Yia Yia and Papou in tow, and...
How to Make It To Age 100 (Or Close)
Ever wonder why some people live well into their 80s and 90s, even though they're overweight and have been on a lifelong "see-food" diet? It's not because they're donning googles like these, that make food look 50% bigger when eating. According to Dr. Nir...