Health
How do shuttling snowbirds handle their health care?
For those away from home who have difficult health conditions, “It is a challenge to keep things together,” says Twin Cities registered nurse Beth Wodrich.
Kay Harvey
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Politics & Policy
Sheila Wellstone: ‘driven by principle and passion’ on domestic-abuse issue
She grew one of Sen. Paul Wellstone’s causes from a grass-roots effort to passage of The Violence Against Women Act, first enacted in 1994.
Politics & Policy
Boomers begin to wonder: Who will take care of me?
In the past, if you needed services, you likely went into a nursing home. Now there are myriad options for boomers to start exploring as they plan ahead for old age.
Politics & Policy
Home sweet home: Many want to ‘age in place’
While some boomers will head for warmer climes, many say they’ll choose to stay in their community — and near family.
Politics & Policy
After careers: ‘Encore work,’ reinvention and service
Boomers are finding new ways to earn money — or simply to be productive in different, unpaid ways.
Politics & Policy
Challenges and change confront the boomers
Our four-day series explores the impact — on both boomers themselves and the larger society — of a massive generational shift.
Online dating: Seniors bring different values to the process
Researchers find that many are looking not for marriage prospects (“been there, done that”), but for companionship.
Oral history exhibit gives Minnesota’s homeless a voice
Jewell, 33, and Arnett, 46, stayed the night in a hotel available to Minnesotans among the state’s homeless. Rebecca, 53, slept in an alley with two pillows and a comforter. Chris, 49, stayed with his mom.
Arts Arena
Healing, of body and of broader world, inspires ‘Tikkun — Repair’ multimedia exhibit
How can any one person make the world a better place?
Wanted: Older Minnesotans to play new roles
Senior theater is an emerging movement across the country, where at least 750 acting companies are made up of people past midlife, say initiators of a senior theater conference Oct. 8-10 in the Twin Cities.