Helen Dennis

Please write an article on what an elderly person can do to be less frail and helpless. I’m 87 and live alone with my 13-year-old mini schnauzer which I short walk every day, check my stocks and e-mails, cook, clean, garden and paint the ocean. I miss having friends and hanging my work in the gallery, which has been Covid-closed. Thank you. A.J. Dear A.J. Kudos to you for keeping up all of your activities including gardening and painting. What you are accomplishing without s

Dear readers, Now that we see some light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel, it seems timely to step back and take a look at how the pandemic is affecting aging and retirement today and in the future. The subject was addressed in the article “How Covid-19 will change aging and retirement” in the Nov. 16, 2020 Wall Street Journal. Some of the following information and perspectives are from that article, plus my own professional and personal views. Life expectancy: Based on a US

Dear readers, This week, the focus is on the emails I received in response to the column on ageism and birthday cards. Here are some of our readers’ perspectives. I’ll follow with some of my own thoughts: “Rarely am I driven to a column immediately but your column on ‘ageist’ birthday cards really pushed my buttons. Isn’t getting old in this society difficult enough with your now telling us that we can’t laugh at ourselves? The most insulting part of your article is that alth