The Kansas Senior Press Service stories are provided by The Best Times, a monthly publication of Aging Information & Action of Johnson County in partnership with the Area Agency on Aging, a division of Johnson County Human Services. The stories are posted monthly and may be republished at no charge by crediting Kansas Senior Press Service.

Archived Articles: 2010 Articles

 

July 2011

• Topics include:
  • Medicare Benefits Publication
  • Spend 'Quality Grandchild Time' on the Social Security Web
  • Opinion- An Unwelcome Season
  • Saving for your Grandchild's education
  • Elder law
  • Senior Bullying
  • Consumer Corner: Reverse Mortgage
  • Safety First: Your Home Gym
  • Stepping Into Your Power, 2
  • Home Front
  • Memories: The way we were
  • Book Review: The Last of His Mind

June 2011

• Topics include:
  • How to stop "aging"
  • 10 Steps to better gas mileage and cheaper transportation
  • In continuation of World Elder Abuse Awareness
  • Grandparents as parents
  • Health for all people
  • KABC Guide
  • You can learn a lot of things from the flowers
  • Animals Make Us Humans
  • Healthcare Corner
  • Readers Share: Tour our land on Uncle Sam
  • Patient advocacy in hospitals
  • Memories: A July 4 war on Main Street

May 2011

• Topics include:
  • Memories: Zippy's Day
  • Soy, the joys and benefits of an ancient, healthful food
  • Memories: A young girl's fancy
  • Readers Share: The rewards of hospital volunteering
  • Light for Aging Eyes
  • Fiction: Mr. Fixter
  • Daughters' Day: A conversation with a father-author

April 2011

• Topics include:
  • Grandma's Summer School
  • Get Ready for CFL bulbs
  • Caregiving counsel
  • Book review: Women to Women: A Handbook for Active Aging, by Catherine Stewart-Roache
  • Home Front: Anodes
  • Family: How long 'til the sun goes down?
  • Learning to enjoy living with a loved on with dementia
  • Celebrating Memorial Day- Country Style
  • Pickleball
  • Humor: A grudging gardener and his tomato
  • Do-It-Yourself Sparkling Windows

March 2011

• Topics include:
  • Humor: Garbage gardening
  • All the lonely people (aging and loneliness)
  • Caregiving counsel: Starting to 'parent' your mom or dad?
  • Book review: Gardening for a Lifetime: How to Garden Wiser As You Grow Older, by Sydney Eddison
  • Memories: Backlash and flashbacks
  • Humor: Ask what you can do

February 2011

• Topics include:
  • Exposed to Agent Orange in Korea? File your claim
  • Starting to 'parent' your mom or dad? Here's some Caregiving Counsel
  • Do this forever! (Healthy lifestyle changes)
  • Elder law: Competency and executing legal documents
  • Humor: The day fate started happening to me
  • Grandparents as parents: Childhood obesity
  • Home front: Furnace size matters
  • Hospice: Providing a team of support at the end of life
  • The Ides of March: A remembrance (World War II)
  • Taxpayer check-off makes it easy to help Meals on Wheels
  • Phantom power: Electricity you pay for, without benefits

January 2011

• Topics include:
  • Click! book review: The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
  • Grandparents, grandkids, and education
  • Kitchen-table money talk: Arm yourself against investment scams
  • Looking back and inward at mid-life: A journey of hope and fear
  • Medicare publication outlines drug discounts
  • Book review: The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes
  • Photo opp: How to organize those old pictures
  • Poem: Cooking weather
  • Property tax refunds
  • Understanding prostate cancer, part II
  • Book review: Sex for Grownups: Dr. Dorree Reveals the Truths, Lies, and Must-Tries for Great Sex after 50
  • Your healthy future begins with a physical exam