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If You Were Unemployed, What Would You Do to Get Noticed?

Posted on 09/14/2012 by Deb Silverberg | AARP Blog Author | Comments

Work“I’d do anything to get a job” – or “I’d give anything to land a job.” Millions of people have said those words. Vincent Giordano has taken it a step further – actually several steps. City blocks, to be more precise. I heard about Vincent and got his contact information via this ABC News story by reporter Alan Farnheim. At 52, the unemployed law firm office support assistant – with expertise running large, complex duplicating machines like you’d see at some copy …

Automatic Budget Cuts Will Reduce Medicare Payments To Doctors, Providers By $11 Billion

Posted on 09/14/2012 by Elizabeth Nolan Brown | AARP Blog Author | Comments

News RoundupsSpecial Post By Mary Agnes Carey | Kaiser Health News staff writer Medicare providers would see reductions of about $11 billion beginning in January as part of series of automatic spending cuts set to begin next year unless Congress acts to halt them, according to estimates released Friday by the White House Office of Management and Budget. The numbers came in a report that details how federal agencies would implement roughly $110 billion in mandatory, across-the-board budget cuts agreed to …

Louis Vuitton’s 83 Year Old ‘IT’ girl

Posted on 09/14/2012 by Dian Holton | Fashion | Comments

Beauty & FashionI’m obsessed with Japanese contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama for lots of reasons but one sentence can sum it up: She’s inspiring. Kusama, 83, has chosen to live in Japan’s Seiwa Hospital for the Mentally Ill for about 30 years for multiple issues, and has still created art that is in worldwide demand. She is best known as an avant-garde, pop art purveyor of repetition and patterns (see video,to the right). But she also shines as an abstract artist, providing a minimalist perspective that has been recognized and …

With the Aid of Science! Human on Our Own Terms

Posted on 09/14/2012 by Ian Cunningham | Health | Comments

Personal HealthMedical science routinely offers solutions to problems that our bodies or environment can not naturally fix. It’s great when these are cool re-imaginings and re-purposing of existing products and procedures. Other times its fine-tuning that leads to good results. This week had a bunch of cool and slightly weird stories about solving some health related issues. Wheelchair Car: There aren’t many options for driving for those in wheelchairs. Existing cars often need remodeling to accommodate the systems that allow those …

Choosing Your Forever Home

Posted on 09/14/2012 by Rosemary Bakker | Rosemary In the House | Comments

Caregiving | Home & Family | Your LifeIt is lazy summer day and Wendy and George, avid birders, are visiting for the weekend. Over a delicious lunch with one of our local friends, Beth, we sit on the deck and watch the blue herons fly overhead. The conversation quickly turns from birding to country living and eventual retirement. City dwellers for years, Wendy and George now long for a place in the country. Wendy is smitten by our new home and its views of the pond and …

Grandfamilies Roundup: Studies, Housing and Resources

Posted on 09/14/2012 by Amy Goyer | Multigenerational & Family Issues | Comments

Caregiving | Home & Family | Relationships | Your LifeGrandparents Week brings to mind those grandparents who are playing a special role – those who are living in multigenerational households and/or raising grandchildren by themselves. These grandparents go the extra mile to be there for their grandkids. Here’s a roundup of new research, resources and supports for grandfamilies. After more than a decade of planning, the newest housing designed specifically for grandfamilies, Grandfamilies Place of Phoenix, opened the first week of August 2012. According to Delmonte Edwards, Executive Director of …