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May Is Older Americans Month: Time to Reauthorize the Older Americans Act
Funding programs that allow seniors to age in place is cost-effective; however, Congress has not reauthorized these programs since 2010. We urge you to contact your elected officials and insist that they pass a reauthorization. Learn more in this 5:22 video. … Continue reading
A Museum of Everyday Things
“‘I’m a guardian of time,’ says 74-year-old Domenico Agostinelli when I ask about his great passion, a passion that has led him over the past 60 years to pick up and collect things of all types, from antique art to … Continue reading
Worth Repeating: Patrick Stewart Ponders the Future
“Worth Repeating” is a weekly feature on the EngAGE Blog that will bring you previous posts that we think are still timely, interesting, or just plain fun! From 5/2/14: The actor whose leading roles in “Star Trek” and “X-Men” have … Continue reading
Candace Bergen’s Second Memoir: A Fine Romance
In Candice Bergen’s second memoir, A Fine Romance, published in April, the author “interweaves 35 years of love affairs — with her first husband, the French director Louis Malle; their daughter, Chloe; and her second husband, the real estate developer … Continue reading
International Perspective: Reviving Pakistani Classical Music
“In his home in Lahore, Pakistan, Saleem Khan holds up his late father’s violin. There are no strings, the wood is scratched and the bridge is missing. ‘There was a time when people used to come to Lahore from … Continue reading
The Sea Women of South Korea
“For hundreds of years, women in the South Korean island province of Jeju have made their living harvesting seafood by hand from the ocean floor. Known as haenyeo, or sea women, they use no breathing equipment, although a typical dive … Continue reading
