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Book Review: <i>Fly While You Still Have Wings</i>
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Book Review: Fly While You Still Have Wings

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by on Mar 13, 2015 in Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured, On Books
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Sr. Joyce Rupp, a member of the Servants of Mary, is well-known for her spiritual writings as well as for her work as a retreat director and conference speaker. In her latest offering, Fly While You Still Have Wings (Sorin Books, 2015), she focuses on her mother, both the example of her life and the […]

Is the World Ready for Aging?
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Is the World Ready for Aging?

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by on Feb 03, 2015 in Featured, The Social Order, Those in Need
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UN population experts promoting low fertility were dumbfounded when asked what lies ahead for countries that will grow old before they have a chance to become rich. At a UN panel last week an expert from Harvard University said, “There are economic and health benefits from fertility decline.” During a presentation to UN delegates at […]

Things I Wonder About
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Things I Wonder About

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by on Mar 04, 2013 in Columnists, Featured, Women
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I know my purpose here on earth is to love and serve God so that I can spend eternity with Him in Heaven… But at my age, even having some of the answers to life’s bigger questions doesn’t mean there still aren’t a few things I wonder about… For instance, I was recently watching a […]

Does Paul Ryan Want to Take Medicare Away From Seniors?
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Does Paul Ryan Want to Take Medicare Away From Seniors?

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by on Sep 01, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics, The Economy
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A year ago, opponents attacked Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), claiming that his plan to reform Medicare would kill grandma by taking away her benefits. Mitt Romney, who, of course, has chosen Ryan as his running mate, is proposing similar changes to Medicare. Does Ryan want to gut Medicare? To the contrary, Ryan’s intention is to […]

Growing Older Beautifully
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Growing Older Beautifully

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by on Aug 16, 2012 in Featured, Women
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“Mom, can I count your grey hairs?” my nine-year-old asked me the other day as he started to poke at my head. He eventually abandoned the task, deciding that there were too many. Last week, I walked into my parents’ house and my mom declared, “Wow! I love your new haircut. It makes you look […]

How Vulture Capitalism Endangers America's Elderly
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How Vulture Capitalism Endangers America’s Elderly

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by on Jan 20, 2012 in Featured, Law & Justice
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GOP presidential hopefuls – most notably Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry – have been attempting to derail Golden Boy Mitt Romney’s campaign momentum by attacking his background as a venture capitalist, deriding as “vulture capitalism” the practice of acquiring businesses through leveraged buyouts and attempting to increase their value through cutting costs, laying off workers and […]

America’s Gerontocracy
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America’s Gerontocracy

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by on Nov 24, 2011 in Featured, The Economy
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One fact that has become increasingly evident in the Great Recession’s wake is the disproportionate influence exerted upon economic policy by those aged 65 years or older. This group is far more economically secure than most other Americans — according to a recent Pew Research Center study, the gap between the average net worth of those […]

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UN Considers Euthanasia and New Treaty on Aging

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by on Sep 30, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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The Holy See condemned attempts to inject euthanasia into the right to health and Latin American and Caribbean delegations called for a new UN treaty at two recent UN meetings on the rights of the elderly. At the Human Rights Council in Geneva the Holy See representative said his delegation took “strong exception” to a […]

UN’s High Fertility Projections Still Show Rapid Global Aging
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UN’s High Fertility Projections Still Show Rapid Global Aging

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by on Sep 17, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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Even with its highly optimistic fertility projections, the new UN population forecast predicts a grayer world than the one imagined by its 2009 report which used much lower fertility estimates. Perhaps most significant is the steep rise in society’s proportion of the old (65 years or older) and very old (80 years and older). By […]

Heaven Help the Aged
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Heaven Help the Aged

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by on Sep 05, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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They say there are only two sure things in life: death and taxes.  Thanks to unbelievable gains in medical technology in recent years however, most Americans are now able to delay the former inevitability for decades longer than their ancestors.  Because of this, at a time when America’s real estate industry is struggling, there’s one […]

Failing to Protect Our Own in America's Nursing Homes
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Failing to Protect Our Own in America’s Nursing Homes

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by on Mar 18, 2011 in The Economy
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“Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members”  Pearl S. Buck, My Several Worlds. In an economy that is increasingly calibrated for a two-person income, millions […]

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The Gift of Aging

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by on Feb 01, 2011 in Health & Fitness
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Well, it happened. I did not think it would but it did. I got old. You laugh. Doesn’t everybody, unless they meet their maker early? Yes, I knew it and you knew it, but be honest: you never really thought it would happen either, did you? Hanging Onto the Years Oh, we knew the birthdays […]