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September 5, 2019

This blog post is about the journey we take from middle age to old age. While I realize that most of us all are fearful of this unavoidable transition to being old, I can assure you not understanding the underlying…

Sixty is the new sixty…

September 4, 2019

One of the new mantras of aging in the twenty-first century is the refrain “sixty is the new forty.” Maybe. Good health and an impressive array of lifestyle options certainly make many of today’s sixty year olds look different compared…

Old Age is the Stage

November 18, 2015

Art is the great decoder of unintelligible worlds like old age. In psychology we call this decoding ‘sensemaking’ and the plays about aging in this splendid article are sensemaking at its finest. As important, they give old age a humanizing…

David Solie on Communicating with Senior Housing Clients

January 18, 2013

This is an interview I did for the Senior Real Estate Institute on January 17, 2013. The topic was communicating with senior housing clients, older adults and adult children. The focus was the two psychological hurdles that have to be…

Boomers Arriving at 65: The Stability Survey™

October 4, 2011

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves…Robert Anthony The boomers are landing on the shore of old age at a rate of 12,000 a day. While turning 65 is officially classified as “young-old,”…

The Wrong Signals: Shutting Down Change Before It Starts

July 30, 2011

How do we help our aging parents consider making positive changes in their lives? We want to help, and feel we have good ideas that could improve their quality of life. For example, we would like for them to consider:…

Seeking Forgiveness: Linda Kriger

July 4, 2011

This deeply moving article by Linda Kriger was published in 2008: http://www.forward.com/articles/14255/ I have read and reread this tale of estrangement, bitterness, regret, and the search for “repair” because I heard endless versions of it from friends, colleagues, clients, and…

Navigating Caregiver Dilemmas

May 25, 2011

As the drama of aging parents unfolds, it reveals itself as layers of interconnected dilemmas that resist heroic attempts to keep everything together. Like an unruly Rubik’s Cube, alignment in one caregiver area seems to trigger chaos in another. Just…