Tips for Protecting Your Family's Financial Future

Do you lay awake at night wondering if you'll have enough money to pay the bills, let alone retire?

Varicose veins can be easily treated

Varicose veins can cause big, unsightly ropes down your legs, but the problem can be more than just a cosmetic one. The veins can cause persistent pain, tiredness, cramping and restless legs.

Donnelly assigned to three U.S. Senate committees

INDIANAPOLIS | U.S. Sen.-elect Joe Donnelly learned Wednesday he'll be a member of the Armed Forces, Agriculture and Aging committees when the U.S. Senate convenes next month.

Getting old is about memories and wisdom and making every day count

Getting old is definitely getting old.

PHIL WIELAND: Retirement? I trend not to think so

For once I'm part of a growing trend, and I'm not talking about people who think synchronized diving should not be an Olympic sport.

Billy Crystal writing book on aging

He has lived many, many Sundays.

Learn about memory loss at free program

MUNSTER | Join Community Hospital Social Services and Hartsfield Village for a discussion on "Memory Loss: What's Normal and What's Not," at 6 p.m. todday in the Community Hospital Cafeteria Conference Rooms, 901 MacArthur Blvd.

Aging with grace includes staying well

The Rev. Jennifer speaks to a group of about 40 women on spiritual awakening April 19 during the spirit segment of Aging Gracefully and Creating Vibrant Health workshops at First Congressional Church in Peru, Ill. The three-part workshop focused on a mind, body and spirit approach to wellnes…

Aging with grace includes staying well

Roxanne Cherpeske, left, of Oglesby, Ill., and Marzita Setchell, of La Salle, Ill., work on their flower pounding projects April 19 during the fun segment of the first part of the Aging Gracefully and Creating Vibrant Health workshops at First Congressional Church in Peru, Ill. There were th…

Eldest Crown Point alumna turns 105

LOWELL | Edith Florene Sautter, the eldest Crown Point high school alumna, turned 105 Sunday. Sautter, who now lives in Lowell, remembers walking to Crown Point's former North Ward Grade School and South Ward High School from her family's Ridge Street farm.

Family input helps detect dementia earlier

Dementia can sneak up on families. Its sufferers are pretty adept at covering lapses early on, and spouses are sometimes there to compensate.

Making a push for family input to detect dementia earlier

Alexis McKenzie's mother had mild dementia, but things sounded OK when she phoned home: Dad was with her, finishing his wife's sentences as they talked about puttering through the day and a drive to the store.

Bruce Lindner

Former Portage High School and Valparaiso University basketball star Bruce Lindner is now executive director for the Porter County Aging and Community Services. With a degree in education from VU, Lindner also taught in Portage at Central Elementary and Aylesworth Schools. He's been with the…

Bruce Lindner

Former Portage High School and Valparaiso University basketball star Bruce Lindner is executive director for the Porter County Aging and Community Services. With a degree in education from VU, Lindner also taught in Portage at Central Elementary and Aylesworth schools, and has been with the …

Bruce Lindner

Former Portage High School and Valparaiso University basketball star Bruce Lindner is executive director for the Porter County Aging and Community Services. Lindner's 25.6 points-per-game average is still the best in Portage boys basketball history. His 725 points in the 1969-70 season are t…

Bruce Lindner

Bruce Lindner, a former Portage High School and Valparaiso University basketball star, is now executive director for the Porter County Aging and Community Services. He starred for Harold Cox at Portage, scoring 566 points during the 1965-66 season.

Boomers' aging casts light on geriatrics shortage

PALATKA, Fla. | In this sleepy, riverside town in northeast Florida, 86-year-old Betty Wills sees the advertisements of obstetricians and gynecologists on the main road's billboards and has found specialists ranging from cardiologists to surgeons in the phone book.

Builders cite rise in 'mother-in-law suites'

Betsy McCann and her husband, Jim Forbes, often worried that his mother was growing isolated in her Los Angeles-area home. At 90, Lois Brokus had stopped driving and was sometimes afraid to be alone in her house.

Families urge action as U.S. drafts Alzheimer's plan

WASHINGTON (AP) — As her mother's Alzheimer's worsened over eight long years, so did Doreen Alfaro's bills: The walker, then the wheelchair, then the hospital bed, then the diapers — and the caregivers hired for more and more hours a day so Alfaro could go to work and her elderly father coul…

Families urge action as U.S. drafts Alzheimer's plan

The Obama administration is developing the first National Alzheimer's Plan, to combine research aimed at fighting the mind-destroying disease with help for caregivers.