The Age-Friendly Community Initiative (AFCI) mission is to explore ways to make the community more supportive of healthy aging and to enable people to stay in their own homes and communities as they age. Current research confirms that older adults are happier and feel better to the extent they remain active. It also identifies loneliness […]

Editor’s Note: This is Part 1 of “Voices” I have just finished “Thus Spoke the Plant” by Dr. Monica Gagliano. In her pioneering book on bioacoustics (sound) Gagliano demonstrates for the first time that plants emit sounds that are heard by their neighbors who then respond to their environment in ways that are beneficial to […]

The Prime Time Ski Club membership has reached an all-time high — 164 members. That means there are fewer older people skiing by themselves and more “seniors” enjoying an active social life. Although some of our new members are the result of this column, I won’t take full credit for the membership increase. I think […]

From time to time I get the question, “Hey James, what’s that bird?” This happened recently. A regular reader emailed with details about a bird she had seen. I love this type of challenge, and she did a good job describing her bird. Even so, neither of us were confident in the end. It was […]