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The Aging Experience · Jun 26, 2026

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  • Nursing homes, factory owners and immigrants brace for fallout from Supreme Court ruling.

  • What to Do for the Elderly? Stop Badgering Them!

  • Make an Impact: 85-year-old and 11-year-old team up to create greeting cards.

  • How your bank account might predict dementia.

  • Retirees Expect Their Home to Be a Financial Safety Net. They Shouldn’t.

  • Managing a parent’s money is the hardest job you never applied for.

  • Downsizing to a Life on Wheels.

  • How does diet impact brain health? Alzheimer’s Association shares nutrition tips with cognitive function in mind.

  • When a Yale Professor Calls Older Americans the Problem, Here’s What’s Really at Stake.

  • Millions expected to lose Affordable Care Act coverage as costs spike.

WAPO - The high court’s decision to strip Haitians and Syrians of their protections from deportation had immediate ripple effects for immigrants and their employers.

NYT - Re “My Parents Are in Their Mid-80s. Why Won’t They Prepare for the End?,” by Jessica Nutik Zitter (Opinion guest essay, May 5):

My first comment is: Stop badgering your parents!

Unless they are incapacitated, they can make decisions on their own. They don’t need to be treated like children. I am 91. I am what is called a solo ager. I am living alone in my home with my dogs, and intend to stay here until I die.

WIFX - Riley Haughey sits at her kitchen table with a tackle box of tools, drawing her newest critter with markers. “I just really like the close up of looking at how markers go onto the paper. It kind of is like magic for me,” Riley said. The 11-year-old fifth-grader creates colorful animal drawings she calls Riley’s Critters. Each critter ends up on a greeting card. This is like top notch printing I feel like,” Riley said. The printer is 85-year-old Tony Klain.

Read the original on anthonycirillo.substack.com

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