Minnesota’s senior population is growing, with 164 Minnesotans turning 65 every day. By 2025, there will be more seniors than school kids in our state. As you get older, it is important to have a plan for aging well. Our Aging Readiness Checklist suggests ten things to help your aging experience go smoothly for you…
“Virtually all of our students end up working in long-term care. It’s what they want to do,” says Michael Donahue, Associate Director at the International Institute of Minnesota. “The cultures of most societies represented in New American populations so esteem elders. They tell us it would be like taking care of a grandparent.” As one…
As a girl I grew up with a whole street full of kids, and we weren’t looking at our telephones. We were lucky if we had one on the wall! At one of the homes where I lived as a child, my backyard was the biggest on the block, with apple trees and dozens of…
I had lived through pancreatic and breast cancers. As a single mom, I could not afford to continue living in my beautiful home in Eagan. My young daughters and I found a small fixer upper in the northern metro. As an artist, I saw the house as a canvas just waiting to be transformed. And,…