Personal digital assistants: Some uses for seniors
Amazon Echo and Google Home — both Personal Digital Assistants — could be a great help to seniors. Or maybe not. The jury is somewhat out on the…
Category: Seniors
Before loaning money to the adult kids Ask yourself these questions
Before you make a major loan to the adult kids, you have to ask yourself five serious questions. The first question is the most important and obvious: Can…
Bone crushing handshake is not welcome!
Some historians believe that the traditional handshake originates as far back as the 5th century BC. Most think though that the gesture began in medieval…
Snapchat not just for kids anymore
If you have always wanted to see yourself with cat whiskers and pink bunny ears — and, let’s face it: who hasn’t? — Snapchat might be the app for you….
Milestones: Dinah Shore: 100th birth anniversary
Dinah Shore: 100th birth anniversary She was the first woman to be a successful television host beginning with the “Chevy Show.” Dinah Shore was born…
Anniversary: Elvis inducted into the Army
It was March 24, 1958 and teenagers were misty-eyed as the teen idol Elvis Presley was inducted into the Army in Memphis, Tenn. Presley completed basic…
Jackie Gleason: born Feb. 26, 1916: TO THE MOON, ALICE!
Alice Kramden was famously unimpressed when her husband Ralph regularly threatened to send her to the moon. The hugely successful and iconic series ‘The…
A care-giving dilemma
Your very ill mother is in your care. One day her beloved son dies. Mother has so many problems now, should you tell her about the son? The answer, from…
Story telling and age
A person’s ability to tell a short story, keeping all the facts in it and straight, can decline with age, according to a study in the Journal of…
Is it possible to get a good job after 50?
Conventional wisdom has it that after age 50, you are doomed if you want to find a great job. While there is age discrimination, according to the Wall…