Kansas Senior Press Service Articles - 2010

December 2010

Topics include:
- Finding a new companion - safely and happily
- Understanding prostate cancer
- A nursing home experience - from an outsider's point of view
- Book review: When Last on the Mountain: The View from Writers over 50
- Fiction: Mr. Biddle and Dr. King
- Home front: Who you gonna call?

Topics include:
- Memories: A mother's wisdom
- Book review: Embracing Death: A New Look at Grief, Gratitude and God
- Click! An introduction to the iPad
- Elder law: Home ownership and your children
- After public glory, the pleasures of home: David and Julie Eisenhower recall life with 'Grandad' (Part I)
- New, improved technologies for hearing loss
- Fiction: Mr. Biddle's all-dog Thanksgiving
- Preserving your family's history

Topics include:
- Brain autopsy: A vital research tool
- Health for all people: Development of the seasonal flu vaccine
- Home front: Giving your deck a physical exam
- Ensure that your wishes are followed to the end (living wills and durable power of attorney for health care)
- Humor: When 'mess' is a gross understatement
- Metabolic syndrome: Be aware, be preventive
- Fiction: Mr. Biddle's beastly burden
- Book review: Crow Planet: Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness
- The ritual of reuniting (3 stories: Don't miss your high school reunion!, Some thought can add a lot to your reunion, Reconnection 2010 (poem)

Topics include:
- The case for assisted living
- Elder law: When 'home sweet home' is best
- Baseball lingo: Know the language and stay ahead of the game!
- Book reviews: Death and grief: New thoughts on old topics
- Louisburg Cider Mill: The sweet back-story
- Joyful chaos and blueberry moments
- Grandparents as parents: Even grown-ups need shots
- Kitchen-table money talk: Retained asset accounts
- Fiction: Mr. Biddle becomes an activist
- Poem: Back to school
- Poem: Ode to the elderly
- New pencils and paint boxes
- Is sleep a big challenge? You're not alone - and there's help
- Ideas for stretching your dollars
- Why be active? The reasons are endless!

Topics include:
- A Place for Mom, Inc.: No-cost help in making elder care choices
- Dealing with elder driver concerns
- Choosing to be a babysitter
- Click! Archiving and data rot
- Cooking for 1 or 2
- Pole walking: A better workout, and more fun, too!
- Health for all people: Medication safety
- Home front: London Bridge isn't the only thing falling down (decking)
- Book review: The Nature Study Movement: The Forgotten Popularizer of America's Conservation Ethic, by Kevin Armitage
- Podiatry: Know when you need it, do the legwork
- Poem: Strand of beads
- A spirit-centered presence in death and dying
- Health care reform: The spiritual care option

Topics include:
- Book review: Somewhere Towards the End: A Memoir, by Diana Athill
- Opinion: Missing the old time customer service
- Elder law: Landlord-tenant conflicts
- Green well-being: A guide to eco-friendly exercise
- Passages author Gail Sheehy offers counsel on caregiving
- Humor: The gift horse
- Medicare and the new health care law
- Fiction: Mr. Biddle and the war of aggression
- Perspectives: Past, present and future
- Poem: The wedding dress
- Reflections on turning 70
- Is it prime time to start a business?
- Social Security and your second career

Topics include:
- Click! Protecting your computer, Part 2
- Grandparents as parents: Building your teen's identity
- Health for all: Beating the heat
- Home front: Backup power for when the lights go out
- Love the second time around
- Mr. Biddle's, uh, I forget
- Life List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds, by Olivia Gentile
- Redesigned Medicare Web site enhances consumer features
- Poem: Father-in-law
- Poerm: Strawberries
- Readers share: Health after retirement
- Study eyes seniors and auto crashes
- Family trips: not just for kids
- Readers share: Don't leave your thanks unspoken

Topics include:
- Elder law: Medicare and health care reform
- 'I'm outta here!' Planning your post-workday world
- Acupuncture: Tremor relief for some Parkinson's patients
- Humor: Old timers and hurt feelings
- Fibromyalgia: Often undiagnosed in seniors
- Kitchen table money talk - The new health care plan: Beginning to sort things out
- Canine obesity: Why it's not so great to be the 'big dog'
- Exercise builds braing strength, too
- Poerm: A birthday present
- Mother's Day without mom
- What happened to Mom, and what about me?
- 10 ways to care for Mom on Mother's Day
- Fiction: Mr. Biddle loses a key
- The commonplace book: Gathering in bits of a life

Topics include:
- Book review: Dad's Home Alone: Caring for Your Elderly Parent
- Behind closed doors: Child abuse hides from those who might help
- Click! Protecting your computer, Part I
- Health for all people: Preventing fall inside your home
- A car to remember: The Ford Model T
- Book review: People with Dirty Hands: The Passion for Gardening
- Youth books a treat for older adults, too

Topics include:
- Aging and manliness
- Memories: An 'Aunt Maude Day'
- Memories: Bits and pieces left over from childhood
- Elder law: Filing for bankruptcy
- Elder estrangement from adult children
- Humor: Flighty attractions
- Gardening as therapy
- Do you need a urogynecologist?
- Kitchen table money talk: Annuities
- Fiction: Mr. Biddle becomes a Frenchman
- Poem: Abandoned dreams
- Caregiver corner: Positive steps to prevent falls

Topics include:
- Medicare helps you focus on preventive care
- Create space for a new you! (Feng shui)
- Losing big: Tips from TV's "The Biggest Loser"
- WWII mascot doll evokes mystery, memory
- Kansas Guardianship Program: Personalized support for vulnerable
  residents
- Love in a box (Valentines)
- Book review: Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and his Girl, by Stacey O'Brien
- Seniors warned of phone scam
- Winter-proof your car with household standbys