Ina Jaffe

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Age Hasn't Stopped This Man From Swimming — And Winning

Friday, July 26, 2013

More than 10,000 athletes are meeting in Cleveland for The National Senior Games. Adults older than 55 — and some older than 90 — are running track, riding bikes, playing basketball and competing in many of the sports you might see at the Summer Olympics. In fact there are a ...

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Move Over Nursing Homes — There's Something Different

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

One thing just about everyone dreads as they age is the possibility of ending up in a nursing home. We all think we know what that's like: sharing a room with strangers, sitting slumped in a wheelchair all day, rigid schedules, bad smells. And for more than 1 million Americans, ...

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Seniors Flex Creative Muscles In Retirement Arts Colonies

Friday, July 05, 2013

Some famous writers, painters and musicians have done some of their best work in their later years — impressionist Claude Monet, for one. But at the North Hollywood Senior Arts Colony, older people are proving that you don't have to be famous — or even a professional artist ...

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How To Turn A Red State Blue: California Edition

Monday, July 01, 2013

All this week, NPR is taking a look at the demographic changes that could reshape the political landscape in Texas over the next decade — and what that could mean for the rest of the country.

Democrats who hope to turn Texas from red to blue are looking ...

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Despite Alzheimer's, Couple Holds Tight To Old Memories

Saturday, June 29, 2013

Right now, 5 million Americans have Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. One of them is 73-year-old Pansy Greene. She's in the early stages of Alzheimer's, and she and her husband, Winston, want people to know that so far, their daily lives have changed little despite the diagnosis.

They sit side ...

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Automatic-Enrollment IRAs Get A Test Run In California

Wednesday, May 01, 2013

With all of the controversy over entitlement reform, there's one thing both sides can agree on: Social Security alone does not provide enough money for a comfortable retirement. For these workers, the Obama administration is proposing automatically enrolling workers in IRAs through their employers.

California adopted a version of this ...

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A Mother's Fight Against 3 Strikes Law 'A Way of Life'

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Since the November election, 240 California prisoners facing potential life sentences have been set free. That's because voters changed California's tough three strikes sentencing law.

As NPR reported in 2009, that law sent thousands of people to prison for terms of 25 years to life for minor, nonviolent crimes. Now ...

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'A Lovely Feeling': Celebrating Older Women With Fabulous Style

Monday, April 01, 2013

The fashion industry is sometimes criticized for unrealistic portrayals of young women. But if you're a woman older than 60, there are almost no portrayals, realistic or otherwise. Fashion may be something you have to invent more than follow. A blog called Advanced Style focuses on women who've done ...

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A Retired Chicago Cop's Second Act Is At A Barbershop

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Increasingly, people are continuing to work past 65. Almost a third of Americans between the ages of 65 and 70 are working, and among those older than 75, about 7 percent are still on the job. In Working Late, a series for Morning Edition, NPR profiles older adults who ...

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For Midwife, 71, Delivering Babies Never Gets Old

Wednesday, March 06, 2013

Increasingly, people are continuing to work past 65. Almost a third of Americans between the ages of 65 and 70 are working, and among those older than 75, about 7 percent are still on the job. In Working Late, a series for Morning Edition, NPR profiles older adults who ...

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