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Reverse Mortgages - Part 5: The Mandatory Counseling Session
On Wednesday, I participated in the counseling session required by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) of all HECM (FHA insured) reverse mortgage applicants. A lender may not begin the mortgage process until it receives the certificate,...
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GAY AND GRAY: A Movie Not to be Missed
The documentary film, Stonewall Uprising, is currently showing in many places around the country. I think many elders, especially those of us with vivid memories of the 60s and early 70s, might very much enjoy it. Why? Because filmmakers Kate...
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Heat Waves and Elders
When, in 2006, I was forced to sell my apartment in Manhattan, I had to decide where to go. Because I considered New York City my natural home (and still do) and had been there for 40 years, it was...
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REFLECTIONS: On Social Security
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Saul Friedman (bio) writes the twice-monthly Reflections column for Time Goes By in which he comments on news, politics and social issues from his perspective as one of the younger members of the greatest generation. His other...
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Interesting Stuff ? 26 July 2010
Until about a year ago, I wrote a weekly Elder News column for this blog with short takes and links to web items related to aging. Sometimes I miss that feature so today, here are a handful of things ?...
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ELDER MUSIC: Paul Kelly
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 genres of music and his excellent taste...
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GRAY MATTERS: Dr. Robert Butler
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Saul Friedman (bio) writes the weekly Gray Matters column which appears here each Saturday. Links to past Gray Matters columns can be found here. Saul's Reflections column, in which he comments on news, politics and social issues...
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To the Keyboards, Elders
Until Wednesday's post, it had been many months since either Crabby Old Lady or I had had a good rant about everyday, commonplace ageism. It felt so good - and is important enough - that I'm doing it again today....
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It's Not Old Eyes, It's Anyone's
Yesterday, the Bluetooth earpiece I had ordered arrived. The purpose is to have both hands free when I'm talking on my cell phone. You know the drill otherwise: someone says, ?Check out this website,? and you're stuck trying to type...
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Why Aren't They Talking to Crabby Old Lady?
For a good while, Crabby Old Lady has sensed that some of the media has stopped talking to old people ? not in general (although a case could be made for that), but about their own important life events. This...
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