by Kevin Banet | Apr 18, 2023 | History
Is it true that as a person gets older, they get interested in older things? Old buildings, old photographs, and old books? On my bookshelf is an 1899 copy of Brumbaugh’s Standard Reader. The book’s pages are yellow and the front pages are filled with the...
by Kevin Banet | Mar 25, 2023 | Senior stories
I’ll admit it – I’m jogging to avoid old age. I figure that if I can stay in shape after turning sixty, I can avoid declining health, and fight against whatever comes next. So I searched for the superman seniors that I know are out there – those odd birds in their...
by Kevin Banet | Feb 20, 2023 | Case Study
The big push for physician-assisted suicide – why it doesn’t make sense They used to call it assisted suicide. Now they’ve turned to other terms to make it sound more palatable. “Medical aid in dying,” “compassionate dying,” and “physician-assisted dying.” How could...
by Kevin Banet | Feb 18, 2023 | History, mental health
If you have an aging parent with mental difficulties, did you ever wonder what kind of value they have in life? In other words, can anything good come from the difficulties of mental illness? If we look at history, we can find notable figures who have suffered from...
by Kevin Banet | Oct 20, 2022 | nursing homes
As a social worker, have you ever wondered how some adult children seem to just dump their parents in a nursing home and never visit them? That question was posed on Quora.com. Kurt Guntheroth, a software engineer and Forbes contributor, came up with these answers...
