Just My Opinion

Whom do I trust? If you really want to know, I trust my friends, otherwise they wouldn’t be my friends. I trust most family members; the ones I don’t I keep at arm’s length. Finally, if you want to know if I trust my government, the answer is more complicated.

There was a time when a sound argument could be made that Massachusetts was on the right track when it came to aging residents in need of long-term care services and their caregivers.

Our 78 million demographic is worth its weight in gold — $15 trillion in global buying power by the end of this decade.

By Janice Lindsay, Contributing Writer I am not now, nor have I ever been, a gardener. I love flowers. I grew up among gardens both...

The extent to which families rely on Medicaid to pay for long-term care means the program’s money is being stretched way too thin.

It seems there’s a universal truth in the “Mom always liked you best” quip Tommy Smothers directed at his brother Dick. Studies over the last few years show that parents do have favorites among their children.

By Janice Lindsay, Contributing Writer Eighty years ago, in July of 1941, the few thousand Americans who owned TVs could witness a momentous event, though...

As a typical age-denying boomer I was floored to hear the oldest members of my cohort are eligible for full Social Security benefits. It just isn’t possible that the generation that coined the phrase, “Don’t trust anyone over 30,” is now in its golden years.

Since perception is the greater part of reality, what this 61-year-old sees when she takes a peek depends on the day.

By Janice Lindsay “We never saw those people, we don’t know them, we’ve never been where they live, they’ve never been here, so obviously they...