Tag: getting older

Paula Harer was married for more than 30 years before packing up one day and moving to a one-room loft with her dog, Red. She was in shock at what her life had become and she had no idea how to start over. Slowly she started writing and eventually she created a her website, startingoveratsixty.com, and her new life began to take shape.
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Nicole tells the story of her unique opportunity to play tennis in the National Senior Games. She’s super excited to go to Albuquerque this spring and bring home the gold for New York. Her training schedule is brutal: jumping on the rebounder to classic Elvis Costello at high volume, and hiking the dogs in the local cemetery with her weighted vest on and keeping her chocolate consumption to a moderate level.

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Elizabeth Speidel is The Ohio State University Intergenerational Program Manager at Champion Intergenerational Center, a community-university partnership between OSU, Columbus Early Learning Centers, and National Church Residences Centers for Senior Health in Columbus, OH. Her passion for building community and supporting people’s recognition of their own inherent worth and dignity has led to a variety of meaningful work ranging from direct service to policy and legal advocacy. Contact Elizabeth at – Elizabeth.Speidel@osumc.edu.

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Stacey Gustafson is the bestselling author of “Are You Kidding Me? My Life with an Extremely Loud Family, Bathroom Calamities, and Crazy Relatives”, ranked #1 Amazon in Parenting & Family Humor and Motherhood. She’s also an inspirational speaker, blogger and comedian. Her short stories have appeared in “Chicken Soup for the Soul” and other in print and online publications.

She’s won Best Comic of the Month at Tommy T’s Comedy Club and performs stand-up throughout the East Bay. Her newest book, “Are You Still Kidding Me?” was released September 2018.

She lives in Pleasanton, CA. Visit her popular blog at StaceyGustafson.com and Twitter @RUKiddingStacey.

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Reema Zaman is an actress, model, writer and is the 2018 Oregon literary arts writer of color fellow. She is the author of the new memoir “I AM YOURS”, which will be on sale in January 2019. Her book is receiving enormous buzz, given it’s profound timeliness and the beauty and impact of the writing. “I Am Yours” tells the story of Reema’s unwavering fight to protect and free her voice from those that sought to silence her. Her book is available for presale at all bookselling websites. “I Am Yours”

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Nicole takes the mic to talk about a kinder, gentler New Year’s resolution– the kind that’s not a set up for failure and disappointment. Find out more at NicoleChristina.com.

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Zannat is a passionate registered dietician and a regular on Canadian TV and media, helping people thrive through the five pillars of health: eat, move, breathe, explore and create. She calls herself a foodie and a food and health storyteller. She is also interested in influencing policy in the direction of better health for all citizens. Zannat co-commissioned a survey on healthy aging in Canada and wants to use that data as a call to action for government and interested parties. Find out more at thrive360.buzz.

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Dr. Katherine Pettus is the Advocacy Officer for Human Rights and Palliative Care at International Association of Hospice and Palliative Care. She travels to meetings around the world, advocating for improved access to internationally controlled essential medicines such as morphine, as a component of the right to health. She also addresses palliative care issues for older persons, for children, in universal coverage, for non-communicable diseases (NCDs), and palliative care medications in national essential medicines lists.

She grounds her European and US advocacy work in her visits to partners in Latin America, Africa, and India, where she participates ‘as often as possible’ in home care with colleagues and their teams who work in extremely challenging circumstances to deliver palliative care to the indigent and mentally ill. FInd out more about Katherine’s work at: Hospicecare.com and nhpco.org.

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Meg LaPorte is a writer, communications specialist and advocate for aging. Inspired by Humans of New York, she’s created a project called “Age In America” (www.ageinamerica.blog) that combines the power of storytelling and social media to change peoples’ perspectives about being older and growing older.

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Kerry Egan is a hospice chaplain, graduate of Harvard Divinity School, and author of “On Living and Fumbling: A Journey of Love”, “Adventure, and Renewal on the Camino de Santiago”.

Her work has been featured on PBS and CNN, and her essays have appeared in Parents, American Baby, Reader’s Digest, and CNN.com, where they have been read more than two million times. Find out more at KerryEgan.com.

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