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Elizabeth of GenBetween posts about another blog’s entry that touched her:
So many times, when you read something about people caring for children and parents at the same time, it’s a financial “how-to”, or, list of areas nursing homes, or, agencies. But, sometimes you read something that just “speaks to you”, and, this article titled simply, “The Sandwich Generation” spoke to me, so, I thought I’d share it with you.
Then she talks about a couple of similar moments.
There’s an article on CNN about Rethinking Retirement that mentions:
…”The baby boomers were the first generation to have a lot more career freedom, but it seems like [for] at least some of them, that ended up not being the case,” Randall Hansen, a career advice writer for the Web site Quintessential Careers, said.
“They fell into a job that they kind of hated or didn’t get as much satisfaction from but stayed in because of first mortgages, and then college tuitions, and now that their kids are out of college, now they finally feel like they have the freedom to change careers.”…
It isn’t retirement, its a career change. Freedom for one. Some freedom for one.
subscribing to sites you want to have let you know when something new is postedand you can catch a glimpse before heading there
and finding out it isn’t as interesting a post as you’d hoped.
How Stuff Works
Their motto is “It’s good to know” - yup
They can help you help others.
Years in the Making, Powerful Yahoo Mail Is Worth the Wait
Walter S. Mossberf, Wall Street Journal
Complete with video report.
The geeks know these sites, you might want to too
25 Sites We Can’t Live Without by time.com
Mashable is a geek’s good friend, sometimes good for non-geeks too 
Ok, shall we the people get involved
or shall we leave it to the experts,
the insurance companies, the drug companies, the health care giants and politicians?
Cancer Society Takes on Health Care Policy
from the New York Times via Newser, Published Aug 31, 07
The American Cancer Society’s next ad campaign won’t tackle the tobacco wars or advocate mammograms, the Times reports. Instead, the group will devote its entire $15 million ad budget to the nation’s health care crisis. The move follows recent research linking detection delays with lack of coverage, which “will be a bigger cancer killer than tobacco,” the society predicts….
eirikso.com has a video at The new way of reading the web
Its a fast, clear presentation of what RSS does for you
and how to get started.
Both of my grandmothers lived to 99. Both grandfathers to 87. So I’ve thought my timeline was in between those numbers.
But my dad will be 90 this Saturday. My mom is 87 and still drives. My dad and I both talk to her about how to adapt her driving to her age.
I pickup my son this morning so we spend some vacation time before the weekend trip to my folks’ city, and the family festivities there. Then he and I will spend some vacation time there before he heads off to his town.
One of my dad’s sisters had Alzheimer’s. The paths of aging vary wildly. We plan. But we never really know what path may be before us.
Zen and the Art of Coping With Alzheimer’s
The New York Times, Second Opinion, By Denise Grady, August 14, 2007
During the YouTube forum with the Democratic presidential candidates in July, the first question about health care came from two middle-age brothers in Iowa, who faced the camera with their elderly mother. Not everybody with Alzheimer’s disease has two loving sons to take care of them, they said, adding that a boom in dementia is expected in the next few decades….
Seniors not online can get help via phone, mail
The Arizona Republic, from the Hartford (Conn.) Courant, Aug. 15, 2007
Old age can bring a number of challenges, including chronic illnesses, Medicare choices, limited incomes and caregiving duties.
Finding resources, accurate information and the latest updates on services and programs can be difficult, especially if senior citizens are not computer- savvy or don’t have access to the Internet.
Estimates are that as many as 21 million Americans 65 and older are not “wired,” says Tobey Dichter, founder of Generations Online, a nonprofit organization that encourages widespread computer literacy by providing software tutorials to senior centers, public libraries, retirement homes and other locations where older people congregate….
There’s help available, but you have to know where to look. Government agencies, nonprofit associations and health organizations still put topics of interest to older citizens in brochures and reports that can be obtained with a toll-free phone call or by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope.
BenefitsCheckUp.org is a comprehensive online service provided by the National Council on Aging to help individuals 55 and older find more than 1,400 federal, state and local programs….