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The Best Place to Start: Area Agency on Aging

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Suddenly, your parent or loved one needs help. Where do you turn? Who do you call? What do you need to know? Crisis moments like these affect us all. Families frequently get overwhelmed. Amidst the serious concern for a loved one, you must prevent your own life from unraveling.
“The Best Place to Start: Area Agency [...]

In The Bathroom – Part 1

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Bathroom perils are bedeviling. We get so used to our bathroom set up that we ignore the dangers of throw rugs, the lack of safety bars, and the many devices plugged in near water. Our toilet seats are older and lower, our showers are too high to be reached, and our homemade accommodations defy good [...]

TimeBanks Get Great Returns!

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Imagine if you could bank your time! And imagine if later you could withdraw your time with interest! We learn about an exciting and simple community concept growing across America called Timebanks. Our guests show us the value and how to organize a Timebank in our own community.
Everyone has something to offer. Every skill, talent, [...]

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AARP’s Tom Nelson Trumpets “CreatetheGood”

AARP’s Tom Nelson Trumpets “CreatetheGood”

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Tom Nelson, AARP’s Chief Operating Officer, sat down with Graceful Aging Host Gregory Bator in Chicago at the Aging in America Conference. Tom Nelson is passionate on how all of can take 5 minutes or hours or days and improve our community with AARP’s new website createthegood.org.

Staying Behind the Wheel with CARFIT

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Staying behind the wheel of your car safely is a goal for any age. Simply because we age does not mean our driver’s license comes into jeopardy. At any age we must be smart about driving. This is Graceful Aging’s third show in the series designed to assist older drivers and their families to stay [...]

How America’s Aging Network Works: At the Federal Level

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Graceful Aging interviewed Kathy Greenlee, the Assistant Secretary of Aging at the recent Aging In America Conference held in Chicago, Illinois. Secretary Greenlee is the person in charge of the Administration on Aging.“Most Americans have no idea how prepared our Federal Government is trying to be for older adults,” says host Gregory Bator. It was [...]

Strengthen Driving Skills

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Staying Behind the Wheel for all of us, especially older adults, requires strengthening driving techniques. In this episode Rachel Wilson of the American Automobile Association highlights the lessons provided in the AAA acclaimed Driver Improvement Program.Do you know the modern method of adjusting your mirrors? “I put this technique into use immediately after the show [...]