Category Archives: Aging Well

Beliefs, and Attitude, Determinants of the Quality of Your Final Years

Ways to live longer and prosper, translated… My father passed away last year, at the age of 104, and I keep on seeing him in my mind. We never expected him to live past a hundred, as he was in … Continue reading

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The Head of the Class in the Nursing Homes

Finding a brand new purpose, through socializing with the other residents in the nursing home, translated… Downstairs to my Oslo home in Norway, my eighty-six year-old elderly neighbor moved into a nursing home before last Christmas. “You no longer need … Continue reading

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It Takes More than Money, to Care for the Aging Elderly in the Population

Commentaries from the Front Page Sections, translated… The age of the elderly is here, in the limited amount of resources being available, how we’re to provide the needed care for the aging populations, is an issue that needs to be … Continue reading

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My Dad’s Sweet Tooth

How did his sweet tooth came “into being”, I wonder…translated… As my dad gets older, he’d enjoyed sweets more than ever, in order to prevent him from overeating the sweets, I’d, stored up the whole pack of snacks away from … Continue reading

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My Mother Wanting More Attention from Me

On how one interacts with one’s own elderly parent, translated… My mother is eighty-six this year, she’d had a stroke twenty years ago, although she’d become, immobilized, but she’s still, full of life, enjoyed traveling a lot. And, these couple … Continue reading

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Not Yet Prepared, the Wonderful Outlooks of Retirement Became a Total Nightmare

That list isn’t even fully written yet, and, we are all, HIT hard, by our retirement here, from the Front Page Sections, translated… The speed to which Taiwan’s population is aging is accelerating by the day, the government should fasten … Continue reading

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A Tough Elderly Man Who’d Accepted His Lifestyle in the Nursing Homes

The benefits of assisted living, translated… My Norwegian father-in-law since he’d lost his long-time companion dog, he’d lost focus in life, other than needing a cane to help him go outdoors, he’d become, more and more demented by the day. … Continue reading

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A Different Life for the Housewives

Translated… The sketch artist, Li-Chih Lin said, “Other than the basic household chores of cleaning, cooking, tidying up the house, you must do something that gives you the pleasure, or, you will, get buried by the miniscule of household chores.”, … Continue reading

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My Mother-in-Law’s Secret to a Happy & Long Life

Translated… My mother-in-law in her eighties is very healthy, very optimistic in nature, took care of her families for sixty years on end, still very able-bodied, and took care of the meals in the household. My mother-in-law’s way of staying … Continue reading

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Bickering with Best Friends, an Unforgettable Reunion

Another class reunion, can’t wait to catch up with the news of the classmates here, translated… Forty years after graduation, the classmates, older now, gathered up together again, and, just as was expected, every one of us became “outstanding”, especially … Continue reading

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