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WALTHAM – The sunlit room buzzed with excitement when Gary Glazner and John McFadden, strumming a ukulele, bounced on stage in song. Participants applauded and sang in unison as each person in the room was introduced. "That was a marathon" by the time it ended, said Glazner, the founding
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BOSTON – Snowflakes magically fell onto elders who filed into Boston's World Trade Center Wednesday and entered an exhibition hall packed with tables offering celebratory New Year's Eve hats and noisemakers. A barbershop quartet provided music for dancing and general conviviality. "This is the hottest event
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BOSTON – Older adults in the Bay State fare much better in terms of their overall health compared with the rest of the nation. Moving up from sixth place, Massachusetts ranked first in a recent survey of the health of older residents, according to the state Health and Human services office.
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(CNSNews.com) — Sometime in the next four years the global population of human beings who are 65 and older will surpass those under 5 for the first time, according to a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau. "For the first time in human history, people aged 65
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BROOKLINE – Harvard University's Grant Study reveals underlying reasons for being healthy and happy in the later years of life, according to Dr. Robert Waldinger, the decades-long research project's current director. What indicators can help predict good health and happiness in a person's later years
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NewBostonPost reporter Beth Treffeisen appeared on Seniors Count on Dec. 24, 2015, to talk about her stories revolving around the senior community in Boston.
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High school students across the country are making oral history this week by recording interviews with their elders in an unprecedented effort to stockpile wisdom for the ages. The Great Thanksgiving Listen was conceived by leaders of the nonprofit oral history project StoryCorps. They're encouraging kids to send
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