If there’s one thing that COVID has revealed, it’s the contradictory nature of aging at this moment in time. Never have the words of Dickens, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” rung more true. For many seniors, the pandemic has truly been a horror…

If we keep returning to the topic of COVID-19 vaccines, it’s for good reason: the news (and virus variants) are coming fast and furiously, and the more we find out about the vaccines and the vaccination process, the more complex a picture we have about how to fight this pandemic…

As you may remember, last June agebuzz readers were lucky to learn from the wisdom and advice of Molly Roffman, the balance and falls expert who runs the studio StepWISEnow. The interview with Molly was one of our most popular posts from 2020, and now she is back to share…

Admit it. You’re probably giving it some thought, if not daydreaming of the day in the (hopefully) not-too-distant future when you can take off again and travel out into the world. In fact, this week was the newly anointed holiday, “National Plan For Vacation Day!” Did you celebrate? Pick a…

The British documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis once said, “Documentaries shouldn’t just reflect the world: they should try and explain why reality is like it is.” If that’s the case, then two recent documentaries featuring older adults reveal a duality of what aging is like in this day and age. On…

It’s estimated that there are over 3 million individuals in the US over age 50 who identify as LGBTQ and for the vast majority of them, the ability to live openly and without denial or discrimination has only come later in their lives, if at all. And the hurt that…