Three young men from Alabama, United States invited an elderly widow to join them after seeing her eat alone in a restaurant.
When I wasn’t looking, I turned 83. And my life is full—of writing and painting (until 3 a.m., which is the best time to paint and get insomnia).
“I love you grandad have a great time in heaven I hope you meet Jesus and I hope you had an amazing life I absolutely love you," the kid wanted to tell her grandfather.
Theodore Stalder, 77, is a relatively healthy man. A voracious reader—his all-time favorite broadsheet is PDI, he said—the Swiss national is sharp and still does things on his own, when many people his age already need assistance.
TOKYO — Fitness club Tipness in Katsushika Ward, Tokyo, was crowded with seniors one afternoon this month. “[Coming here] helps to...
Three siblings – half of an entire brood – sat at the last row of the assembly. They had planned...
Over the last couple of weeks, in conversation with close friends and contemporaries, two “D” words kept surfacing: depression and dementia.
Last week I accompanied my mother for a laboratory test. As we sat waiting for her turn, we noticed an elderly woman who was limping from one desk to another, in an apparent attempt to complete the papers required prior to the test. In obvious frustration, she said aloud to no one in particular in the waiting room: “Kaya naman kung minsan gusto ko nang mamatay.”
Filipinos and other Asians like to scoff at the western countries’ nursing homes for the aged, describing them as examples...
There are heroes outside battlefields—ordinary, everyday heroes who strive to change the world through their own simple ways.
