Perspectives

Real stories, personal reflections, and unique points of view on aging, life transitions, and what matters most. Gain insight, wisdom, and inspiration from voices across the senior community.

Perspectives

Travel Serendipity

BY
Janet Call

“My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.” These words of celebrated Lowcountry author Pat ...

Perspectives

What it Means to be an American

BY
Jill Chapin

I had a chat with a newly minted citizen, who undoubtedly knows more about our constitution and how our government ...

Perspectives

The Euchre Experience 

BY
Janet Call

Membership in OPPE (Old People Playing Euchre) is something its Charlottesville, Virginia members accept as a badge of honor. After ...

Perspectives

So We Got a Tenth Supreme Court Justice After All

BY
Jill Chapin

A Texas district judge just suspended the FDA’s 23 years-long approval of the abortion pill, Mifepristone – for the entire ...

Perspectives

Olfactory Journey

BY
Janet Call

In the often frantic pace of modern life, with its ubiquitous technology and uncertainty, it is easy to miss the ...

Perspectives

Long Journey Into Night

BY
The Senior Outlook Today Team

By Bert Sternal Bert sat in his recliner, staring out the window at the yard he used to tend. He ...

Perspectives

A Senior’s Toast to Dentists

BY
The Senior Outlook Today Team

By Jerry Robbins Here’s to dentists everywhere And to all their helping ones Who sit you down in their chair ...