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Column: It's the season for scams, so here's a piece of advice: Never do business with strangers

LOS ANGELES -- The text arrived midday, saying a delivery to me was on hold. To fix the problem, all I had to do was click on a web link and enter my ZIP Code.

"Have a great day from the USPS team!" the text said.

The awkwardly worded message (with bad punctuation and an international phone number) was clearly not from the Postal Service. ...Read more

Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times/TNS

It's the season for scams, so here's a piece of advice: Never do business with strangers

LOS ANGELES -- The text arrived midday, saying a delivery to me was on hold. To fix the problem, all I had to do was click on a web link and enter my ZIP Code.

"Have a great day from the USPS team!" the text said.

The awkwardly worded message (with bad punctuation and an international phone number) was clearly not from the Postal Service. ...Read more

Chefs serve seniors tradition and community on Thanksgiving Day

ATLANTA -- A few days after Thanksgiving, in his second year as executive chef at Meals on Wheels Atlanta, Chris Kelly received a thank you letter and phone call from a woman who had received one of his carefully prepared turkey dinners.

Meals on Wheels Atlanta is a nonprofit organization funded primarily by private, foundation and corporate ...Read more

Chefs serve seniors tradition and community on Thanksgiving Day

ATLANTA -- A few days after Thanksgiving, in his second year as executive chef at Meals on Wheels Atlanta, Chris Kelly received a thank you letter and phone call from a woman who had received one of his carefully prepared turkey dinners.

Meals on Wheels Atlanta is a nonprofit organization funded primarily by private, foundation and corporate ...Read more

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Stroke survivor went from using a wheelchair to walking again, and started a nonprofit

Eight years ago, Deb Shaw stepped into the shower of her home in Los Gatos, California, and her vision blurred. She wobbled, fell and hit her head on the shower bench. Minutes later, she woke up on the floor.

Her head throbbed. Deb's husband, Bob Shaw, was out of town for work. Her 90-year-old father-in-law, Dale Shaw, was visiting. Deb couldn'...Read more

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Protecting yourself from the painful shingles virus may also protect cardiovascular health

Shingles is a funny-sounding name for a seriously painful disease. How painful? That's hard to put into words. Printable ones, at least.

Officially, shingles pain can range from mild to severe. The words "itchy" and "burning" frequently come up in descriptions. Some use "horrendous" and "excruciating."

Sufferers might relate to David Letterman...Read more

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Travel Trending with Kathy Witt: Cunard’s new Queen Anne cruise ship captivates with outstanding and original entertainment

Do not sit in the front row. It’s great advice, especially in the case of an interactive show like the Bright Lights Society’s rollicking good murder mystery aboard Cunard’s gorgeous new Queen Anne—and especially when you listen to said advice. Which I didn’t. Which is why I found myself a reluctant participant, soft shoeing before the...Read more

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Is this 'slow' strength training method the fountain of youth? LA's 90-year-olds say yes

LOS ANGELES — DeLoyce Alcorn is 92 years old — and pressing nearly four times that in weight at the gym.

On a recent Wednesday afternoon, Alcorn — dressed in a T-Shirt that read "Be Strong. Be Resilient. Be You." — slid into the leg press machine, which was set at a whopping 312 pounds. He gripped the handlebars, closed his eyes and "...Read more

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Older Americans living alone often rely on neighbors or others willing to help

Donald Hammen, 80, and his longtime next-door neighbor in south Minneapolis, Julie McMahon, have an understanding. Every morning, she checks to see whether he’s raised the blinds in his dining room window. If not, she’ll call Hammen or let herself into his house to see what’s going on.

Should McMahon find Hammen in a bad way, she plans to...Read more

Marcus Ubungen/Los Angeles Times/TNS

Is this 'slow' strength training method the fountain of youth? LA's 90-year-olds say yes

LOS ANGELES — DeLoyce Alcorn is 92 years old — and pressing nearly four times that in weight at the gym.

On a recent Wednesday afternoon, Alcorn — dressed in a T-Shirt that read "Be Strong. Be Resilient. Be You." — slid into the leg press machine, which was set at a whopping 312 pounds. He gripped the handlebars, closed his eyes and "...Read more

Funeral swag? Personal branding comes to death care

MINNEAPOLIS — Jeff Johnson’s life is full of creativity and zest: He runs his own Minneapolis design firm, turns a mean polka and once starred in a Norwegian realty TV series. And he’s decided that a memorial to mark his eventual death — outlined in a seven-page legal directive titled “Jeff Johnson’s Awesome Funeral Party!!” — ...Read more

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Commentary: Seniors are getting crushed by Washington's recklessness

Inflation has pulverized Americans’ finances over the last four years, and a new study shows that’s especially true for the nation’s seniors, whose retirement accounts have been walloped.

The losses have been so severe that would-be retirees need to work an extra six years on average before they can hang up their work boots—and they can...Read more

Tammy Ljungblad/Kansas City Star/TNS

Missouri: Jackson County voting on small property tax increase for senior services

Voters heading to the polls in Jackson County have the chance to adopt a small property tax increase to fund services for seniors aged 60 and above through a ballot measure called Question 1.

The question reads, “Shall Jackson County, Missouri, levy a tax of five (5) cents per each one hundred (100) dollars assessed valuation for the purpose ...Read more

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She was kicked out of the National Honor Society when she got pregnant at 15. For her 80th birthday, she got reinstated

She never forgot the fateful day in 1961 that several classmates showed up at her door to seize her National Honor Society membership and deliver a message: She had been deemed “no longer honorable.”

Joanne Johnson Grimes was 15 and pregnant. School administrators forced her to drop out of Burlington City High School in New Jersey her ...Read more

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This bike shop is still going strong at 50 years, outlasting competitors with its 'old school' vibe

CHERRY HILL, N.J. -- At 10 a.m. on any given Tuesday, cyclists begin wheeling their bikes up the ramps behind the Erlton Bike Shop in Cherry Hill, looking for owners Rich Tustin, his son Aaron, or any of their crew as soon as the store opens.

The cyclists need flats repaired, brake pads replaced, derailleurs aligned, and wheels straightened on ...Read more

Lorena Russell/KFF Health News/TNS

Millions of aging Americans are facing dementia by themselves

Sociologist Elena Portacolone was taken aback. Many of the older adults in San Francisco she visited at home for a research project were confused when she came to the door. They’d forgotten the appointment or couldn’t remember speaking to her.

It seemed clear they had some type of cognitive impairment. Yet they were living alone.

...Read more

Lorena Russell/KFF Health News/TNS

Millions of aging Americans are facing dementia by themselves

Sociologist Elena Portacolone was taken aback. Many of the older adults in San Francisco she visited at home for a research project were confused when she came to the door. They’d forgotten the appointment or couldn’t remember speaking to her.

It seemed clear they had some type of cognitive impairment. Yet they were living alone.

...Read more

Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times/TNS

This 71-year-old pole dancer defies expectations — and gravity — in age-obsessed LA

LOS ANGELES -- Dressed in 7-inch neon heels and translucent yellow bell-bottoms, Mary Serritella was defying gravity and expectations on a recent Wednesday night at Hollywood's Bourbon Room.

Spinning gracefully around a silver pole to disco medley, she contorted her body into a series of improbable positions with even more improbable names ...Read more

Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times/TNS

This 71-year-old pole dancer defies expectations -- and gravity -- in age-obsessed LA

LOS ANGELES -- Dressed in 7-inch neon heels and translucent yellow bell-bottoms, Mary Serritella was defying gravity and expectations on a recent Wednesday night at Hollywood's Bourbon Room.

Spinning gracefully around a silver pole to disco medley, she contorted her body into a series of improbable positions with even more improbable names ...Read more

KFF HEALTH NEWS/TNS

Older men’s connections often wither when they’re on their own

At age 66, South Carolina physician Paul Rousseau decided to retire after tending for decades to the suffering of people who were seriously ill or dying. It was a difficult and emotionally fraught transition.

“I didn’t know what I was going to do, where I was going to go,” he told me, describing a period of crisis that began in 2017.

...Read more

 

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