Thanks to modern medicine and rapid advancement of new technology, the average lifespan for the human species has increased dramatically. The average life expectancy in ancient Greece and Rome...
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On August 19, 1988, President Ronald Reagan introduced Proclamation 5847 to the United States of America. The proclamation, signed on that day, declared August 21 as National Senior Citizens...
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Harriette Thompson lives in a Charlotte, North Carolina retirement home. A classically trained pianist with three Carnegie Hall performances under her belt, Thompson is also a cancer survivor, having...
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She was an infant when Teddy Roosevelt was sworn into office as President of the United States. She was a toddler for the first-ever World Series and a child...
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There’s a cultural phenomenon that surrounds the concept of aging. Most choose to perceive and experience aging negatively, when in fact, there are myriad reasons why aging should be...
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Physical exercise couldn’t have changed all that much in the past 100 years, could it have? We’ve all been exercising the same way forever, right? Wrong. Exercise trends have...
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Back in 1979, a group of women came together to cheer for the Sun City Saints women’s softball team in Arizona. Thirty-six years later, those women are still performing...
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It seems like only yesterday we were digging through dictionaries, encyclopedias and thesauruses to find the information we wanted to know. Now, if you have a recent smart phone,...
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Deb Gaillard is a Baby Boomer. Like many of her generational peers, Gaillard has taken an extreme liking to adventure travel. In 2013, she told the Wall Street Journal...
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