Check out the pages of this website by a retired elementary school teacher who has made the most of living within the limitations that fate sent her way. After being diagnosed with early stage Alzheimer's Disease, Donna Beveridge took her first painting class and fell in love with watercolor. She changed her doctor to one more supportive of what she could do and achieve, and she decided to tell her experience through paint. She became an advocate for others with the disease by helping to publicize useful programs and develop new programs for people with dementia and their caregivers.

What is not in this story about the human spirit and its life-long capacities? As Boyd Lee Dunlop himself says at age 85, "Life is what you make it. Never knock it."

In this editorial, a psychologist well versed in issues of aging points out the appalling lack of privacy people experience in nursing homes. He shows how sexual expression and relations there have gotten to be impossible for residents and calls for taking the Nursing Home Reform Act of 1987 seriously in its requirement that nursing homes help people attain and maintain their highest sense of physical, mental, and social well-being---which includes the right to self- and sexual expression.
What makes people happy? Here are 10 actions, strategies, habits uncovered and recommended by researchers who have studied people all over the world.
Have you noticed that the teenagers you know consider "old age" to be a lot younger age than you do? A recent survey of about 3,000 people, ages 18 and older, found that the older people were, the later they viewed old age to be and the younger they felt, in terms of number of years, compared with their biological age. Read about the survey and listen to the audio clips of some of the interviewees.