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An Interview with Dr. Marc E. Agronin
The author of “How We Age” breaks it downHow We Age is Dr. Marc E. Agronin’s memoir about his exposure to aging and death, primarily through his medical practice at a Miami nursing home many call “God’s waiting […]
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“How We Age: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Growing Old”
Working in nursing homes taught me about old age — but I was unprepared for my grandfather’s last daysFrom the book How We Age: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Growing Old by Marc E. Agronin, MD. Excerpted by arrangement with Da Capo Lifelong, a member of […]
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Cleveland Retirement Community Welcomes Creative Youth
The symbiotic power of intergenerational programming and the artsAn inspiring story from the AARP, below, profiles a pilot program at Judson’s retirement community; they offered two students at the Cleveland Institute of Music apartments in their facilities (once […]
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In Remembrance
This poem is one of celebrant Irene Kane‘s favorite pieces to incorporate into the memorial services she leads; it both speaks to a universal sentiment, and readily lends itself to […]
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We Pause in Memory of Elizabeth Taylor
It saddens me to announce that at age 79, Elizabeth Taylor passed away; and along with her, part of my American childhood also passed. Elizabeth Taylor was an icon to women […]
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Do not stand at my grave and weep
Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there, I do not sleep. I am in a thousand winds that blow, I am the softly falling snow. […]
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Six Ways to Give Your Loved One the Best Death Possible
“The weariest and most loathed worldly life that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature, is a paradise to what we fear of death.” — Claudio in Shakespeare’s […]
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Life and Death in the Shadow of Vesuvius
The city buried in ash, now in Times Square…From March 4th through September 5th 2011, the doors to the past will be flung open as visitors to New York’s Discovery Times Square Museum find themselves transported 2,000 years […]
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