by Jana Panarites | Nov 27, 2015 | Aging Well, Entertainment, Growing Older |
Hollywood legend Jane Fonda has gone from playing a voluptuous intergalactic agent in Barbarella and winning an Oscar for her role in Klute, to sporting a leotard as a fitness guru, being a breast cancer survivor and an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War, which she...
by Jana Panarites | Nov 20, 2015 | Aging, Caregiving, Growing Older |
If you’re reading this in a public place, chances are you’re surrounded by some of the 60 million-plus people in America who are caring for a loved one. And with November being National Family Caregivers month, the Pew Research Center recently highlighted...
by Jana Panarites | Nov 17, 2015 | Aging Well, Baby Boomers, Growing Older, Innovators |
Wait. 3D aging… does that involve funny, dark glasses? Nope. Three-dimensional aging takes false narratives such as “70 is the new 50” and “it’s all downhill from here” and replaces them with what Dr. Bill Thomas calls “a...
by Jana Panarites | Nov 13, 2015 | Aging Well, Baby Boomers, Innovators, Millennials, Seniors |
A growing number of young entrepreneurs are creating start-ups geared toward baby boomers and seniors. Whether these Millennials and Gen-Xers are driven by profit potential or idealism (or both), the market is a huge one: as of 2014 there were 46.2 million people age...
by Jana Panarites | Nov 10, 2015 | Aging Well, LGBT Seniors, Seniors |
For today’s gay youth it’s hard to imagine there was a time in America when homosexuality was classified as a mental disorder, and gay sex — even in private homes — was punishable by anything from a light fine to a life sentence in prison. But...
by Jana Panarites | Nov 3, 2015 | Aging Well, Growing Older, Innovators |
What do the cartoonist Roz Chast, Encore.org founder Marc Freedman and scientist Dr. Linda P. Fried all have in common? Along with 47 others on NextAvenue’s 2015 Influencers in Aging list, they are changing how we think about aging and the ways that we age. Dr....