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Over 65 blog About the Project Contact Registration Supporters of Over 65 Mindblown: a blog about philosophy. To Our Readers Thank you for visiting. We will not be adding new content, but we are leaving up Over 65 as an archive of personal essays and policy commentaries examining the challenges facing our aging society. June 23, 2015 Hiatus Because of a combination of a sabbatical for one of us and a series of other commitments, Over 65 will take a hiatus from publication until May, 2015. We appreciate the interest and engagement of our writers and readers, and look forward to resuming publication in the spring. In the meanwhile, we want to wish… December 18, 2014 Palliative Care – Not Just for the Dying I used to think that palliative care was just for people who were dying. Then I found out—about a dozen years ago—that palliative care had expanded its original focus on end-stage cancer patients to include people with serious illness throughout the course of their disease (or diseases). Palliative care, I realized, is far more than… November 10, 2014 The Grand Alliance Grandparents and grandchildren have a natural alliance. Both have inevitable conflicts and competition with the generation between them, but the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren is insulated from parent-child tensions. The same sort of alliance potentially holds true to some extent with generations, such as over 65ers and those under 35. Some recent examples in… November 3, 2014 Life Can Turn On a Dime [Introduction from Jim Sabin: This anonymous post was published recently on the Age with Spirit blog. Via Al Martin, the editor of the blog and author of a number of posts for Over 65, I’ve received permission from the anonymous author to republish it. I wanted to do so because it discusses the psychological transition… October 27, 2014 Re-Designing Medicare Under the headline Greedy Geezers,” the cover of the March 28, 1988 issue of the New Republic shows a phalanx of angry over 65ers surging forward, toting golf clubs and fishing rods. The accompanying article by Henry Fairlie, 64 at the time, excoriated over 65ers as being out for themselves and ready to bankrupt the… October 20, 2014 Retirement, 20 years from now A national organization recently asked me to write a brief piece on the future of retirement. Here’s how I responded. I know what retirement will–or at least should–look like 20 years from now. I’m just not sure how we will get from here to there. Unfortunately, my best guess is that we will have to… October 13, 2014 Sex after Sixty-Five No personal confession or revelation impends here, but these feelings in old folks are widely treated like a raunchy secret.” (From Roger Angell’s This Old Man: Life in the Nineties.”) In contrast to my usual posts on this site, there will be no personal revelations by me here either, other than to say that sex… October 6, 2014 Caring for Nursing Home Patients under Medicare What drove me crazy about practicing medicine in a nursing home wasn’t the patients, although with their many medical problems often including cognitive impairment they were a challenge; and it wasn’t the families, though with their anxiety and attentiveness and sometimes their guilt they were an even greater challenge. What drove me crazy about nursing… September 29, 2014 Why I Hope Not to Die at 75 I feel uniquely qualified to comment on Zeke Emanuel’s much-discussed article Why I Hope to Die at 75.” I’m smack in the middle of the year he hopes will be his last. In addition, many years ago I wrote a book about health care organizational ethics with him (and Steven Pearson). I loved working with… September 26, 2014 Older Posts → Got any book recommendations? Get In Touch Over 65 blog Proudly powered by...