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A friend is sending me documents needed to make me the executor of his will. He does not expect to die from this pandemic but he has enough weaknesses in his body to be fairly sure he would not survive the virus if it gets to him. He is not as old as I am but he is not young either. He is clear-sighted enough to know what he must do now: stay at home. He is also clear-sighted enough to admit into his thinking the common fact of death. Read More

As more than 500 retirement living leaders gathered at the Gold Coast, a test of the industry’s pulse reveals that national occupancy nears capacity and senior Australians face a shortage of age-appropriate housing. The annual National Retirement Living Summit wrapped up in Queensland earlier this week, with the industry’s heavyweights recommitting to the Retirement Living... Read More

You know what’s sad? It isn’t growing old or even that we die. What’s depressing is to find ourselves old and lying on our deathbeds wishing we had lived our lives differently. Too often, we find ourselves mired in society’s expectations for us, chasing goals that have little or nothing to do with meaningful accomplishment... Read More