Aging Facts

by Barbara Riley-Baker, BA, MA, CMC, C.P.G. GERONTOLOGY is the study of aging from a variety of perspectives; psychological, socioeconomical, physiological, historical and clinical. Time Period Prehistoric men/women Ancient Greece Middle Ages (England) 1620...

Is It Normal to Feel Bad?

Help for Those Over Sixty-Five Dealing with Depression by Barbara Riley-Baker, BA, MA, CMC, C.P.G. Mrs. D. is a seventy-two-year old woman who lives alone. She has been a widow for eight months. Her husband of fifty years died suddenly as the result of a car accident,...

Physical Change and Aging

Robert Browning’s view on aging is summed up in his immortal poem, “Rabbi Ben Ezra” Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.The last of life, for which the first was made;Our times are in His hands, who saith,A whole I planned , Youth shows but half,Trust God:...