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• Your Advocacy Connection

  By Gail Glockhoff-Long GolderCare Solutions Aging Solo Many people picture the ideal aging process as the TV show The Waltons, with three generations living together and being surrounded by family to care for you when you are sick or need help with major life decisions. How many of those famili...

• Ella’s Kitchen

  Festive dinners may be for only two or four this year. Try a Cornish game hen per person instead of the big turkey. A suggested dinner for four menu: Cranberry Pineapple Gelatin Salad, Cornish Game Hen, Basic Bread Herb Stuffing, Twice Baked Potato, Buttered Broccoli, Corn Muffins, Pecan Tarts. ...

• Calendar of Events | November 2020

  There are some new events added to the calendar. If you have an upcoming event that you would like published mail info to: 50+Lifestyles, P. O. Box 2125, Davenport, IA, 52809 Attn: Eloise or email: publisher@50pluslife.com Attn: Eloise. Support Groups and Informational Seminars Open AA Meeting -...

• Your Advocacy Connection

  By Gail Glockhoff-Long GolderCare Solutions Time to Rethink Holiday Traditions?? Fiddler on the Roof opens with Tevye commenting,“A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But in our little village of Anatevka, you might say every one of us is a fiddler on the roof, trying to scratch out a pl...

• Ask the Audiologist

  By Kevin Kock, Au.D. Audiology Consultants, P.C. Masks, Hearing, and Hearing Aids- Oh my! How facemasks can reduce communication. Since the start of COVID, many patients and families have been saying the same thing: “I cannot understand you with that mask on!” As a licensed audiologist, my...

• Phone Fraud is Real

  By Anne Coffman Marketing Director at Ridgecrest Village There have been numerous articles and newscasts about various scams that target the elderly. Recently I witnessed firsthand how real this threat can be. I was in a local retail store in line behind an elderly lady buying a large number of g...

• A Tribute to Max Molleston

  By Eloise Graham On October 8, 2020, we were saddened by the passing of one of our friends and contributors to 50+ Lifestyles magazine. Max Molleston had been penning poetry or sharing other poets and their works in his column in 50+ Lifestyles for over two decades. He often shared some of his own ...

• PUBLISHER’S CORNER

  By Eloise Graham To Survive 2020 You Must SMILE This has been quite the year so far. If we knew in January what we know now, we may have just hibernated for a year or two. Let’s list some of the challenges: A new coronavirus, known as COVID 19, became a pandemic in mid-March. Toilet...