Seniors

Agency on aging prepares for benefit
By Erin Castaneda
April 24, 2008
Shrinking federal funding and an aging population have prompted Jayhawk Area Agency on Aging to take its fundraising efforts to a new level. On May 7, the tri-county agency will be host to a benefit in Topeka to continue to support the nearly 9,000 seniors it serves.
Learn to retire in style
Boomers weigh when, how to crack nest egg
By Eve Mitchell - Contra Costa Times
April 21, 2008
They saved it. Now comes the spending part. Millions of baby boomers who have worked hard and saved for retirement over the past few decades are now faced with the challenge of how to spend and manage their nest eggs once they retire. Figuring out how to do that while making the money last over their lifetimes is no easy task.
6News video: Senior Center seeks new transportation
April 20, 2008
Visits to the doctor's office as well as the grocery store are very important for area seniors. The Douglas County Senior Center helps out with those rides - but the current vehicles used for the task are in need of replacement.
Research concludes oldest Americans are also the happiest
By Lindsey Tanner - Associated Press Writer
April 19, 2008
It turns out the golden years really are golden. Eye-opening new research finds the happiest Americans are the oldest, and older adults are more socially active than the stereotype of the lonely senior suggests. The two go hand-in-hand: Being social can help keep away the blues.
Forum to focus on death preparations
J-W Staff Reports
April 12, 2008
The Lawrence Area Coalition to Honor End of Life Choices will have a forum in recognition of National Healthcare Decision Day from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Monday at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt.
Meals on Wheels seeks drivers
By George Diepenbrock
April 4, 2008
In her more than 30 years delivering food at lunchtime for Lawrence Meals on Wheels, Diane Sanders has grown fond of some people on her route.
Study: Unhealthy drinking problem for elderly
The Washington Post
March 20, 2008
Although alcohol abuse is most often regarded as a problem affecting young people, a large federally funded study has now found that nearly one in 10 Americans older than 65 drinks too much.
The daily grind
Seniors share coffee, stories and memories for over 60 years
By Sarah Henning
March 9, 2008
For more than 60 years, the coffee has been warm, the single cola cold and the conversation good. Every weekday morning since the late 1940s, a group of men has met to drink in coffee and conversation at various locations around town. They’ve been at what is now the Econo Lodge on Sixth Street — formerly the Ramada — for 35 years, and they now call themselves the Just Older Youths (J.O.Y.) coffee club.
Japan’s oldest person dies at age 113
February 24, 2008
Japan’s oldest person has died at a hospital in southwestern Japan, her nursing home said Saturday. She was 113.
Game system a hit with seniors
Virtual sports provide physical therapy, social interaction opportunities
By Kristi Henderson - khenderson@ljworld.com
February 16, 2008
With all the clapping and commotion coming from the Big 12 Pub at Brandon Woods Retirement Community, it could’ve been mistaken for a bowling alley. But instead of a lane and bowling balls, there was a Nintendo Wii and flat-screen television. And the bowlers could choose between throwing strikes while standing or sitting.
Growth strategy
Gardening industry hopes cool tools hook boomers
By Eileen Putman - Associated Press Writer
February 11, 2008
Baby boomers don’t get old. They just develop arthritic knees. In response, the gardening industry has grown savvier. It’s fast producing lawn and garden tools that boomers can use in their graying years — but that don’t look so, well, elderly. These are cool tools that are efficient, don’t harm the environment, and play to the self-mythology of an activist, can-do, forever-youthful generation.
Seniors program seeks Friendly Visitors
J-W Staff Reports
January 28, 2008
Volunteers are needed to provide companionship and support to senior citizens through the Douglas County Senior Services’ Friendly Visitor Program. Volunteers commit to spend one hour a week as a Friendly Visitor volunteer.
Retirees find ways to save
By Ellen Simon - Associated Press Writer
January 25, 2008
The temperature in Lea Wait’s home has been falling along with stock prices. Wait, 61, invested the early retirement buyout she took from AT&T Corp. in 1998. As stocks gyrated this winter and the heating bill at her Maine home climbed to $600 a month, she made new investments: Thermal underwear and a wood stove that burns “BioBricks” made of condensed sawdust and wood chips.
Trickle-down effect
Alzheimer’s disease has impact on children, too
By Katherine Shaver - The Washington Post
January 15, 2008
When Elana and Jolie Cohen visited their great-grandmother in Gaithersburg, Md., recently, she greeted them with a gleeful “Oh, my girls! My girls!” But what followed wasn’t a typical chat. Their great-grandmother, Barbara Rukovina (whom the girls call Mucker), usually makes no sense. She doesn’t remember their names. Often, she doesn’t seem to know where she is.
Town lets seniors work off taxes
By Jim Fitzgerald - Associated Press Writer
December 26, 2007
Audrey Davison lives alone, gets a $620 Social Security check each month and worries about the sharply rising taxes on her four-bedroom house. Davison, 76, raised her family there and after 43 years, she really doesn’t want to leave Greenburgh.

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