Habits
An overview of the daily habits that support memory and clarity after sixty, including walking, learning, company, alcohol, meals, water, and loneliness.
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Meals and Memory After Sixty
I do not say that because it is nice. I say it because I watched it happen, over and over, at the counter and at the senior centre on Elm Street. A person comes in worried about forgetting names, forgetting the pan on the stove, forgetting why they walked into the room. We do the…
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Habits That Hold Memory and Clarity
The names notebook was sitting open on the table Tuesday morning, and I had written the same woman’s name down three times. Each time I thought it was the first. I stared at it over my coffee, and I could feel that little cold drop in the stomach that I hear about from people every…