Category Archives: Aging Well

When Longevity is No Longer a Blessing, in the Elderly Years, Spending Nine Whole Years Bedridden Before Death

Posted on May 12, 2018 by taurusingemini

So, we’re no longer, “blessed” with a long life, but CURSED with one now, aren’t we??? From the Newspapers, translated… With the Average Age of 80, the Department of Sanitation Welfare Found that the Years of Healthy Living is Only … Continue reading →

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What I’d Learned from My Elders

Posted on May 7, 2018 by taurusingemini

What you learned, as you become older, as the years come to pass, translated… When I was thirty years old, I’d heard an elder in his sixties told me, that it’s important, that I buy my house next to a … Continue reading →

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Finding the Joys in Learning New Things in Our Elderly Years, on Live-ing

Posted on February 6, 2018 by taurusingemini

Keeping the mind, active, a way of aging gracefully! Translated… The Year of Learning in Joy Recently, as friends asked me out, or when family called on me to hold a family gathering, I’d said, “yes”, but, “Do try to … Continue reading →

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We Need to Go & Chase Our Dreams Even as We’re Older

Posted on January 27, 2018 by taurusingemini

Staying active as we age, that is, the MOST important thing at hand these days!!! Keys to aging gracefully, translated… Based off of statistics, only sixteen percent of elderly over age 65 in Taiwan needed long-term care, the remaining 84 … Continue reading →

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The Kinmen’s Long-Term Care 2.0 Program Started the Class Sessions, the Elderly Were Very Eager to Participate

Posted on January 12, 2018 by taurusingemini

This would be, the PREVENTATIVE programs of long-term-care 2.0, and look at how active these elderly are becoming. From the Newspapers, translated… To Prevent Dementia Early and the Loss of Abilities, the Local Department of Sanitations Sponsored a 12-Week Program, … Continue reading →

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The Trials I Went Through Taking Care of My Husband I Won’t Put My Own Children Through Again

Posted on January 9, 2018 by taurusingemini

Another entry from the Caretakers’ journals, translated… After reading through the couple of articles in December on caretaking of elderly who’d lost their abilities, it’d made me recall back to eight years ago as my husband fell ill. My husband … Continue reading →

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Life in Double Doses

Posted on January 9, 2018 by taurusingemini

Living life, for her mom, and her self now, translated… Gone to visit mom that day, I’d opened that door with her urn inside, stared at her gentle and kind looks, then, the past came back to me. Twenty-five years, … Continue reading →

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The Writer, Chun-Ming Huang, at Age 82: Only Starting to Feel His Years After He Was Diagnosed with Cancer

Posted on January 8, 2018 by taurusingemini

In the face of DEATH, what this elderly famous writer learned about aging, and how the culture interact with those in the elderly years, from the Front Page Sections, translated… “I’d only come to my senses, that I’d, aged after … Continue reading →

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The Kind of Person that the Green-Headed Fly Liked

Posted on January 3, 2018 by taurusingemini

What this man understood, from twenty plus years of marriage to his wife, translated… “Don’t you know, that my birthday is the same day every year?” Recalling how one year I’d accidentally arranged my overseas trip around my youngest son’s … Continue reading →

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Sending the Elderly Parents to a Nursing Home=Being Unfitting as an Offspring? Having the Healthcare Professionals to Look After Ones’ Elders, Feeling More Secure

Posted on December 7, 2017 by taurusingemini

This is, the traditional Chinese beliefs, that should be, thrown OUT!!! From the Newspapers, translated… My originally independent, able-bodied mother had a stroke, plus she’d begun to stutter when she spoke, being outgoing and social, she was, greatly impacted, was … Continue reading →

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