Excerpt from Daily Cures, Wisdom for Healthy Aging by Connie Mason Michaelis I was looking online for topics that pertain to seniors.  I had to laugh when the first topic listed was walk-in bathtubs .  When a subject reaches the top of a webpage, it means it is more frequently visited than any other topic.  I’m not sure that many people see bathing as the #1 issue or that the walk-in tub manufacturers do the most advertising.  It is as if remodeling your bathroom fixes all th

Excerpt from Daily Cures, Wisdom for Healthy Aging by Connie Mason Michaelis Thanksgiving Day is a great reminder that we have so many blessings in our life.  But the truth is that we ought to be practicing thanksgiving every day of the year!  Maybe it would be better to celebrate Unthankful Day  once a year.  Everyone could have permission to whine and complain for a whole day and eat day-old cold pizza; the rest of the year, we could practice thanksgiving!  Dear Abby printe

Excerpt from Daily Cures, Wisdom for Healthy Aging by Connie Mason Michaelis Today’s researchers say that loneliness may be as detrimental to older people as cigarette smoking and high blood pressure!  The multigenerational study done by the Stanford Center on Longevity’s Sightlines Project revealed that social engagement might be the single greatest guardian of health and endurance.  There are many conjectures about why this is so. Social interaction generates mental stimula

Excerpt from Daily Cures, Wisdom for Healthy Aging by Connie Mason Michaelis When I was out of college and a young stay-at-home mom, my mother-in-law gave me some sage advice about drinking coffee . It really wasn’t about the coffee; it was about becoming integrated into my new community with friends and neighbors. She told me that drinking coffee was a primary reason to get together and visit---thus the Coffee Klatch. She suggested I learn to drink it black. It would have no

Excerpt from Daily Cures, Wisdom for Healthy Aging by Connie Mason Michaelis How about a dependence day? Yes, you read it right,...

Excerpt from Daily Cures, Wisdom for Healthy Aging by Connie Mason Michaelis Retirement has been a part of our culture since the late...

Excerpt from Daily Cures, Wisdom for Healthy Aging by Connie Mason Michaelis Learning to laugh at ourselves is one of the most beautiful...

Excerpt from Daily Cures, Wisdom for Healthy Aging by Connie Mason Michaelis All About Aging , by Dr. Maxwell G Berry, MD., to my...

Excerpt from Daily Cures, Wisdom for Healthy Aging by Connie Mason Michaelis In 1979, at the age of 70, Dr. Berry wrote, “Eighty-five...

Excerpt from Daily Cures, Wisdom for Healthy Aging by Connie Mason Michaelis I recently came into the possession of a manuscript called...

Excerpt from Daily Cures, Wisdom for Healthy Aging by Connie Mason Michaelis A smile says it all! As the first wave of boomer generation...

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Excerpt from Daily Cures, Wisdom for Healthy Aging by Connie Mason Michaelis I was sitting on the front porch of my house with a friend,...

Excerpt from Daily Cures, Wisdom for Healthy Aging by Connie Mason Michaelis I had a bad case of road rage. I was driving on I-70 and got...

Excerpt from Daily Cures, Wisdom for Healthy Aging by Connie Mason Michaelis Mary Pettibone Poole wrote a clever rendition of an older...

Excerpt from Daily Cures, Wisdom for Healthy Aging by Connie Mason Michaelis My mother, who would have been 105 years old this year, used...

Excerpt from Daily Cures, Wisdom for Healthy Aging by Connie Mason Michaelis The story of Clark Stanley’s Snake Oil Liniment is...

Excerpt from Daily Cures, Wisdom for Healthy Aging by Connie Mason Michaelis I often write about the changing paradigm of retirement...