PHILADELPHIA -- Elder Wisdom Circle is a nationwide organization that connects young people with questions to seniors who try to help them solve their dilemmas. The Doylestown chapter of Elder Wisdom ...

America is a youth-centered culture. Retirees can become obsolete. Old folks’ opinions are not valued, much less sought. “Never trust anyone over 30” was a phrase Robert Han Bishop, founder of the ...

The Elders’ Wisdom Children’s Song (EWCS) program honored Anishinabe Ojibwe elder Pat Bellanger on February 12th at a celebration at Sanford Middle School in Minneapolis. EWCS blends elders’ oral ...

For most people, the approaching holiday season includes more time with extended family, including the elder generation. Unfortunately, older adults are often diminished in the popular media and by ...

I am 33 years old and the mother of two. With great respect to Mr. Diers, whose columns I have often enjoyed reading (I took my daughter to see the steam engine “Big Boy” on his recommendation), I ...

If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, knit a winter hat or fix a stopped-up sink, you can go to YouTube and find a video. But what if you need advice on love and relationships, navigating a ...

Three savvy, clear-eyed women sitting around a table in a Sussex County, N.J., nursing home have 232 years of life experience among them. They've lost husbands, braved sickness and found humor in ...

We should appreciate also that aging is a deeply spiritual process. In the church where I pastor, on the first Sunday in November (All Saints Sunday), we traditionally remember people in our families ...

When I was a young lawyer there was a partner who sat in his office all day. At first, I didn’t understand his role at the firm — a hard-driving place with lawyers as intense as you can imagine. All ...

"Zankey ga gana albeeri fonda." "Children will follow the path of the elders." —Songhay saying Several years ago at an African Studies conference, a tall gentleman approached me at the end of my ...