Vital Aging Network

By Julie Roles, Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging Communications Director Never heard of Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging? You’re not alone. It’s one of the Twin Cities’ best kept secrets. But if, by chance, you’ve called the Senior LinkAge Line about an impossibly high monthly bill for prescription drugs and had a Senior LinkAge Line specialist help you reduce your cost to a fraction of what it was, you know the Metropolitan Area …

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By Amy Chlebeck, Travel Advisor, CWT Vacations, Virtuoso Member (one in a series of travel columns by Amy) Enrichment travel: defined as vacations with authentic, hands-on or interactive learning experiences, featuring themes such as adventure, agriculture, archeology, arts, culture, cuisine, education, forestry, gardening, language, nature, science, sports, wine and wildlife. SOURCE: enrichment-tourism-WDOT.pdf Many of us embarking on a …

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By Pat Samples Twice in the past week, someone greeted me with “Hello, young lady.” I cringed. I have no interest in being young, or in being thought of as young. These words were spoken from the common paradigm that old is bad, and young is good.  I told them I’m wonderfully old, and I want that reality to be valued and respected. When one of them retorted, “Well, you’re young at heart,” I said, “No, I’m not. I have a wise, elder …

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