AGING – Page 4 – Getting Older: Charting the Uncharted

Blogging from A to Z April 2024 Challenge: D

Aging: The Good, the Bad, and the Tolerable D is for Death I believe that ageism is intertwined with our cultures’ avoidance with dealing with death. Which is why aging has a bad rap. Older people serve as a symbol of the eventual ending of life. As a new gerontological nurse practitioner who worked with…… Continue reading Blogging from A to Z April 2024 Challenge: D

Blogging from A to Z April 2024 Challenge: A

Aging: The Good, the Bad, and the Tolerable I’ve taken care of older patients most of my 40 years in the nursing profession, the last 20 of those years as a nurse practitioner in direct patient care. It wasn’t until I entered my 80s that I realized most of what I knew, or thought I…… Continue reading Blogging from A to Z April 2024 Challenge: A

Aging: The Good, the Bad and the Tolerable

During the month of April, I’ll be posting every day except Sundays on the topic of aging. Hope you will come along with me as I challenge myself to write something (greater than 100 words) tied into the alphabet of the day–A to Z.

Memories: the Annual Family Vacation

We have broken a family tradition. Every summer my husband, Ernie, and I have rented an oceanfront house in Emerald Isle, North Carolina. We started when my first grandson was one year old. Now he is 23 and has two brothers, 19 and 15 years old. We may have skipped a year a couple…… Continue reading Memories: the Annual Family Vacation

Martha Stewart,Pilates and Me

I just registered for a Pilates class. My husband laughed at me when I told him I’m taking Pilates because Martha Stewart, who is my age, took the class to get fit to wear a bathing suit for the cover of Sports Illustrated. At 81, she is the magazine’s oldest model. Martha has been my…… Continue reading Martha Stewart,Pilates and Me

HOLDING ON

Re-blogged from November 23, 2014 We met soon after my husband and I moved into a house in a forested community in Chapel Hill. Still working full time, I took my long walks over the weekend. As I trudged up a particularly steep hill, an older man wearing a floppy hat and listing slightly towards…… Continue reading HOLDING ON

Surviving a Knee Injury at 80

Sharing the experience of a knee injury.

60th Nursing School Reunion or How Did We Get This Old?

. . . we take our leave after cake and coffee with tight throats, warm hugs, and moist eyes, to say our long good-byes.

Counting the Dead

How many will show at the 60th nursing reunion of St. Peter’s School of Nursing at Cape May, NJ?

When A Compliment Is Not A Compliment.

I’ve written many posts about ageism. What I’ve not addressed is how older persons could react to the “compliment” that we look or act so “young,” as if youth is the gold standard and “aging” is undesirable. (Notice I did not say SHOULD since I’m not giving advice but laying out my thoughts on ageism) …… Continue reading When A Compliment Is Not A Compliment.