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The Young@ Heart chorus began as a lark in 1982 when a group of seniors from Northampton, Ma., living at the Walter Salvo House, an elderly housing project, decided to have a little singing fun.  Bob Cilman, the choir’s director recognized artistic opportunity in …

Let’s Play a Few Mind Games, Shall We…
Several decades ago, a fitness movement exploded enticing generations of people of all ages to exchange a sedentary lifestyle for a more active one.  We jogged, aerobicized, golfed, …

The song “My Generation” made popular in the sixties by The Who was recently re-recorded in the infamous Abbey Studios by The Zimmers, a new rock-n-roll group composed of 40 British seniors, whose members’ ages range from 69 to 100. 

Planned Seniorhood Visits Hawaii - Day 1-2 (Oahu)
“That peaceful land, that beautiful land, that far-off home of profound repose, and soft indolence, and dreamy solitude, where life is one long slumberous Sabbath, the climate one long delicious summer day, and the good that die experience no change, for they but fall asleep in one heaven and wake up in another.” Mark Twain on Hawaii

After years of accumulating frequent flier miles and with affordable accommodations made through RCI and Priceline bookings, my husband, my mother, and I headed off for the trip of our lifetime to visit the Hawaiian islands of Oahu and Kauai. On the eve of my mother’s 81st birthday, after a week of soaking up beauty amidst colors my descriptive palette cannot begin to specify, the three of us concluded our stay in paradise with a traditional, and might I add spectacular, Hawaiian luau. It was ten days none of us will ever forget.