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June 30, 2008, marked the last column in paper form for Aging Deliberately. Given continuing financial troubles, The Seattle Times cancelled my column – almost fourteen years to the day (July 4, 1994) from when I started.

This isn’t the final word from me, though. Thanks to the Internet, I’ve launched a new generation of Aging Deliberately columns, available by email. It will have the same practical, honest information about aging that readers loved in my columns in The Seattle Times and Kitsap Sun.

But now there will be more space to experiment, add other people’s opinions and voices, respond to more of your questions, tell you about innovative workshops that I and others are putting on – and other things I don’t even know about yet.

So What Will You Get?
Like my columns, this Aging Deliberately newsletter will feature a “new take” on aging – not the pity party or saccharine happy times you see in much of the media. Each of us is living longer than ever before in history, and there are serious challenges ahead. Individually, we have much to learn to do it right. Collectively, because there are so many of us growing older at once, it will change our society forever – for the good if we wake up and start to prepare. The choice is ours. It’s time to age gracefully, with as much control over what happens to us as possible. That means doing it with our eyes wide open – deliberately.

That’s what this newsletter will be about – ideas that will transform the way we think about our aging and the way we age, as well as care for the people we love.

The mechanics
The newsletter will come to you every other Monday in your email, starting August 4, 2008. There will be no newsletter in December.

 Just like in my newspaper columns, you’ll read about:

•    Preparing for your own aging
•    Finding the right care services for you or someone you love
•    The changes our society needs as nearly 80 million boomers grow old
•    Living in a home that allows you to “age in place”
•    Talking to your parents about moving
•    Dealing with someone who hoards (no, it’s not a left-over behavior from the Depression)
•    Learning how to assess an older person’s needs to find the services they need,
•    And more

My first column over a decade ago started quietly. It took a while to catch on, but when it did, it went national, then international. Now it’s morphing into a new form.

Aging has long been the “thing” we want most to avoid, deny, surgically change. Well, you can hide but you can never get younger. I hope this newsletter will get more of us into an “aging deliberately” mindset, facing our lives – at whatever age we are – with control and purpose. Please join me today in taking this exciting new step.