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    In the global sense, we are all aging after we take our first breath.  In a more specific sense, we usually think of aging as a period of decline after we hit our peak.  In the most individual sense, this can vary greatly for each of us.  On one hand, we claim personal perrogative in deciding how to act and categorize ourself; on the other hand, ‘limitations’  step in to define us.  Which is correct—our self-assertion or the realities of time passing?  Who gets to decide where each of us is in this aging process and what is ‘appropriate’ behavior, choices or planning?
    The ‘aging industry’ is huge.  For every iota of our existence, there is a product, a service, a program, an institution that seeks to lure us to eat, to wear, to engage in activity, to invest or to live in such a way as it prescribes.  What’s behind all this? Is it just money making for the vendors, or can the offerings be helpful, even life-sustaining?
How do we evaluate what’s out there, and how may we assess ourselves to know our real needs as we proceed in the inevitable trek of aging?
    A quest for wisdom is urged. Over years of working with aging/aged persons, being involved with some of their institutions, acting as a caregiver for parents and now entering into the ‘senior’ realm myself, I see an imperative to discern underlying thoughts and feelings about aging each of us holds.  Otherwise, we may blithely go down a path that we have not consciously chosen and which does not have our best interests at heart.
    Thus, this blog will make every earnest attempt to filter through words, slick marketing ploys and all messages sent our way that attempt to pull us into the world of senior products and services.  Its’ aim is to get to the root of guiding principles and philosophy so that each of us, in full consciousness, can decide what is our best, our healthiest, our most satisfying course of action for as long as we each shall live.