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When To Play the Age Card
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Attention Subscribers:
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When Adult Children “Ghost” Their Parents
 • Don Akchin
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When does “old age” begin?
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Your Grown Children Can Break Your Heart
 • Don Akchin
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Social Insecurity
 • Don Akchin
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Your Grown Children Can Break Your Heart
But only if you let them.
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Don Akchin
26
Have a Happy Old Age!
Plus: Test-driving retirement, home healthcare affordability, and more
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Don Akchin
We are Analog Refugees in a Digital World
We need to understand tech, but tech needs to understand us.
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Don Akchin
6
The Ultimate Deadline
Why awareness of death's inevitability may be a good thing.
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Don Akchin
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Medicaid Cuts Also Would Impact Medicare Recipients
Plus: Online mentoring, retirement planning’s missing link, and more
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Don Akchin
3
It Could Have Been a Tragedy
One elder’s long, difficult but satisfying life
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Don Akchin
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Who Will Be There to Care?
If certain policies don’t change, you won’t like the answer.
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Don Akchin
7
The EndGame
The EndGame
Aging with purpose and joy. The EndGame is an inquisitive, empathetic, and humorous exploration of all aspects of age, for those who are not ready to fade away.
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