Relationships

At the beginning of the 20th century, four small African American girls began their lives in the same Southwest neighborhood of Washington DC. They played together, faced the same challenges growing up in a still segregated society, grew up to marry and start families and sustained their friendships through life’s…

The data is clear: if given the choice, most people prefer to grow older in their homes and familiar neighborhoods i.e., they want to “age-in-place.” But as we age accommodations often need to be made: Repairs or changes to the environment for safety concerns, assistance in the home for difficult…

Recent news stories have highlighted the challenges that transgender persons face in going about their everyday lives. For seniors who are transgender, and already vulnerable from the usual sorts of challenges older persons face, the barriers to health, well being and safe living conditions can be enormous. Most transgender seniors…

While everyone seems to have an opinion on how to live a long life, those in the 100+ years category may be especially well positioned to offer some advice. And for at least some of these centenarians, their long lives owe much to their avoidance of one particular category of…

Since the late 1930’s researchers at Harvard have been studying two sets of men: those who were college students at Harvard and those from an economically disadvantaged neighborhood in Boston who had little in common with the students except age. Since their adolescence, these two groups have been studied to…

In this fast-paced age of constant informational and visual updates, it can be overwhelming to hold onto the “stuff” of family memories, be it stories, images, videos, audio clips or other ephemera. How to preserve all of this can be an overwhelming task.  The solution?  The History Project, an online…