December

• Week December 30-Topics include:
  
  • Agony and awareness: A knee surgery journal
  • Healing the natural way: A new focus for seniors
  • Poem: Deep Yearning
  • Medicare Q&A: Shingles vaccine

Week December 23-Topics include:

• Senior safety: The knows and no's of residential security
• Medicare publications provide valuable information
• Pamphlet helps seniors prepare for emergencies
• Health for all people: Winter and vitamin

Week December 16-Topics include:

• Medicare Q & A
• Making sense of yogurt choices
• An ‘Aunt Maude Day’

• Week December 9-Topics include:
  
  
• Safe toys and gifts for this holiday season
• Blowing out the fuse: How our bodies stop cancer before it starts
• The importance of hand washing
• Medicare Q&A: Extra Help


• Week December 2-Topics include:
  
  
  • Two friends and a legacy: The Kansas Academy of Mathematics and Science
  • Medicare Q&A: HMO vs. Original Medicare
  • Looking in on aging relatives: A home-for-the-holidays checklist

November

• Week November 25-Topics include:
  
  
  • Medicare Q&A: Ambulance services
  • Elder law: Medicaid and long-term care
  • Receiving Social Security benefits while you work
  • Grandparents as parents: Getting rid of 'the gimmies'
    
• Week November 18-Topics include:
  
  
  • Medicare Q&A: Dental coverage
  • Medicare Q&A: Eye care
  • Long-term care conversations
  • Selling your home later? Plan today
    
    
• Week November 11-Topics include:
  
  
  • Stop smoking with assistance from Medicare
  • Living with Alzheimer's? Know what that means
  • My life as a "Rosie the Riveter"
  • When cold becomes deadly
    
    
• Week November 4-Topics include:
  
  
  • Flu shots key to maintaining senior health
  • Home front: Hot water now!
  • A child's eye view of WW II: Bud Maier, Pittsburg, KS

October

• Week October 28 -Topics include:
  
  
  • November is National Caregivers Month
  • View from the hilltop: Imagine that!
  • Click! Exploring technolog

• Week October 21 -Topics include:
  
  
  • Is sleep eluding you? Help is available
  • Medicare Home Care Appeals
  • Nature and nurture

• Week October 14- Topics include:
  
  
  • Medicare and outpatient mental health care
  • Poem: Aging gracefully
  • Ag Hall of Fame takes bold steps
  • Pawsing with our pets: Preparing for emergencies
    
    
• Week October 7- Topics include:
  
  
  • Walk your way to fitness with a pedometer
  • Medicare Q & A: Diabetes supplies
  • Plant herbs for fresh cooking and delightful smells—and start now!
  • Living with Alzheimer's Disease? Local chapter can help

September

• Week September 30 - Topics include:
  
  
  • Pre-planning funeral services
  • Senior safety
  • Healthy minds: Why worry
    
• Week September 23 - Topics include:
  
  
  • Food stamps: A money-saving way for senior adults to get nutritious food
  • Grandparents as parents: Home fire safety
  • The full scoop on organic
  • Poetry: Driving through Kansas in October
    
    
• Week September 16 - Topics include:
  
  
  • Is it time for a home safety makeover?
  • Here today, gone tomorrow? Maybe not
  • One man's world: Lessons of the young
  • Fruits and vegetables: More really does matter
• Week September 9 - Topics include:
  
  
  • Medicare Q&A: Home health care
  • Healthful local eating (book review)
  • 'Eco-warriors': Closing the green gap
• Week September 2 - Topics include:
  
• Health for all people
• After a death: Finding a home for precious things can be painful
• Secret garden brightens many lives
• Aging with grace takes courage

August

• Week August 26 - Topics include:
  
  
  • Macular degeneration: Know the facts
  • Fuse boxes in old houses
  • The resiliency of age
    
    
• Week August 19 - Topics include:
  
  
  • Grandparents as parents
  • Vaccines important for senior wellness
  • View from the hilltop
  • Pawsing with our pets
  
  
• Week August 12 - Topics include:

• How to Stay Healthfully Hydrated
• Sleep Matters, So Care for Your Pillow!
• Humor: Heavenly Handbag

• Week August 5 - Topics include:

• Prepare for the Heat
• Health Minds: The Secret to Staying Young
• More on Identity Theft
• Make Your Home a Coffee House

July

• Week July 29 - Topics include:

• Financial Diversity: 12 Eggs, 12 Baskets
• Senior Safety: Street Smart Safety Awareness
• We Brake for Garage Sales

• Week July 22 - Topics include:

• Sunglasses and Hats: Additional Protection for Senior Eyes
• Seniors Are Prime Candidates for Recycling
• Recognizing Alzheimer's Disease
• Elder Law: Grandparenting

• Week July 15 - Topics include:

• Recognize and Report Medicare Fraud
• Is It Time for a Home Safety Makeover?
• Bringing the Children in our Lives Back to Nature
• What's Growing On? Bringing the Prairie into our Gardens

• Week July 8 - Topics include:

• Home Front: Behold the Overwhelming Tree
• Guide Helps in Choosing Insurance 'Gap" Coverage
• Evaluating Medical Information on the Web
• 10 Tips for Family Caregivers

• Week July 1 - Topics include:

• Exercise Can Improve Abilities as We Age
• Consider Your Options for Long-Term Care
• Memories: Reflections of a Fourth of July Delayed
• Notes from a Chaplain

June

• Week June 17- Topics include:

• Understanding Medicare private health plans
• Consumer corner: Be wary of door-to-door contractors
• Memories: The bag swing
• View from the hilltop: Beagles rule in more ways than one!

• Week June 10- Topics include:

• Make your home safe for kids
• A stir-fry for all seasons
• Beware of ozone levels this summer
• Humor: Is 'retired' what I really want to be?

• Week June 3- Topics include:

• Hands-only CPR: Giving people confidence to save lives
• What preventive care services does Medicare cover?
• Gardening as therapy

May

• Week May 27 - Topics include:

• Senior Safety: Workplace safety and self-protection
• June 15 is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
• Pawsing with our pets: Snoopy is on top
• Grandparents as parents: Summer reading

• Week May 20 - Topics include:

• Elder law: Expressing your end-of-life wishes
• Healthy minds: Finding happiness and joy
• The friendship of a fledgling

• Week May 13 - Topics include:

• Books for nature lovers
• Eat to satisfy your body, not your friends
• Food - and Mother's magic (Memories)
• Kansas Charity Check

• Week May 6 - Topics include:

• Take care of yourself while caring for a loved one (Part II)
• Mr. Biddle's piggy bank (Fiction)
• May-Basket Day (Memories)
• May is Older Americans Month

April

• Week April 22 - Topics include:

• Geriatric care managers can turn tide for caregivers
• 'Greening' our homes: A mayor's initiative
• Golf: A Tiger tale (humor)

• Week April 15- Topics include:

• Hope for sufferers of fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue
• April is Donate a Life Month
• Home Front: Mold revisited

• Week April 8- Topics include:

• Grandparents as parents: Childhood stress
• Shared caregiving
• Healthy minds: Bipolar disorder
• Tips to prevent falls

• Week April 1- Topics include:

• End-of-life gift
• Safety lighting
• One Man's World: Father's death

March

• Week March 25 - Topics include:

• War and baseball
• Pets in your will
• Are you a holder or a yeller?

• Week March 18 - Topics include:

• African Americans and end-of-life plans
• Prevent poisoning in the home
• One man's world: Sometimes recitals shouldn't be public
• Produce and breast cancer

• Week March 11- Topics include:

• Water exercise perfect for arthritis sufferers
• Take care of yourself while taking care of a loved one
• Johnson County strange tales: Bee stings

• Week March 4- Topics include:

• Online dating
• Notes from a chaplain
• Health for all people: Taking medications safely
• Dealing with diabetes? Medicard can help

February

• Week February 26 - Topics include:

• Healthful foods for low-income people
• How to communicate with your physician
• Knee replacement: A poet's perspective

• Week February 19 - Topics include:

• Eat to satisfy your body, not your friends
• Too young for old age
• One man's world: It's a wonder
• Health minds: Changing your life for the better

• Week February 12 - Topics include:

• Help for grandparent caregivers
• Grandparent resolutions
• Life in your years
• Senior safety
• Poetry for seniors

• Week February 5 - Topics include:

• Tinkering with time
• Do pets resemble owners?
• Tax check-off helps Meals on Wheels
• Tips for Medicare beneficiaries

January

• Week January 29 - Topics include:

• American Heart Month
• Skip to the beat of a healther heart
• 10 little pieces of advice

• Week January 22 - Topics include:

• The art of aging
• On winter
• Glaucoma awareness month
• Improve your health in 2008

• Week January 15 - Topics include:

• Aging in place with a sunroom
• Tattered bits of paper may be rich in family history
• Book explains practicality of natural burial

• Week January 8 - Topics include:

• The changing world of television
• Coupon program to ease analog-to-digital conversion
• Barbie is forever (Preserve those old dolls)
• The beginning of a new me