Monthly Archives: February 2017

Recommended Reading for February 2017 When Breath Becomes Air By: Paul Kalanithi At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient […]

Cataract Surgery to Improve Vision Now Routine Before 1949, if your vision started to deteriorate because of cataracts, you had to either wear the highest level of reading glasses you could find, seek out the brightest light or resign yourself to increasing blindness. But that year, surgeons at a hospital in London inserted the first […]

5 Things You Didn’t Know About Dating for Seniors With the obsession that today’s media has with youth and appearance, you could be forgiven for thinking that it’s only the young who are looking for companionship, that dating is a young person’s game. Well, it’s time things changed. We are all living decades longer than […]

Lyft Partners with Caregiver App to Transport Seniors Ride-hailing service Lyft said it will partner with a caregiver platform, San Bruno-based CareLinx, to transport the elderly.  Both companies say the service is in high demand for seniors trying to get to medical appointments and social engagements on their own or with caregivers who may not […]