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Successful Aging

A weekly syndicated newspaper column by Helen Dennis

After more than 20 years and 1000+ columns, Helen continues to delight readers with her Successful Aging column for the Southern California News Group. The syndicated column reaches more than 1.6 million readers weekly.

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Successful Aging: Do you recognize the signs of elder abuse?

Dear readers, As with many important issues related to aging, there’s a date set aside to draw attention to what is considered one of the...

Successful Aging: When a grandparent should step in to help a grandchild

Q. I have a 16-year old granddaughter whose parents are going through a very difficult time in their marriage. This is affecting my...

Successful Aging: This column got more reader responses than any other in 17 years

Dear readers. I recently responded to a daughter’s concern that her father, an 88-year old retired dentist, was using a flip-top rather...

Successful Aging: I retired and realized I have too few friends and too much stuff

Q. I recently retired for the second time as a health-care business owner. Here is what is hitting me: Many friends have become ill, some...

Successful Aging: My 87-year-old father cares for my ailing mother, but won’t accept needed help

Q. My father is 87-years-old and cares for my 85-year-old mother who suffers from dementia and lung cancer. He resists home care for my...

Successful Aging: I don’t have children, so who will help me as I get older?

Q. I am in my mid 60s, live alone and never had children. Many of my friends talk about how their children and grandchildren are such a...

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Successful Aging appears

in the following newspapers:

The Los Angeles Daily News

The Daily Breeze

Pasadena Star News

Long Beach Press Telegram

Whittier Daily News

San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Santa Barbara Sun

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

Orange County Register

Redlands Daily Facts

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