By Media Coverage | Mar 3, 2015
At the age of 60 – while sitting on the bleachers of my son’s high school soccer field – I was struck by a bolt of lightning, knocked unconscious and set on fire. Six months later, I became a grandfather for the first time. Within eight months, I was...
By Media Coverage | Mar 3, 2015
It was supposed to be just five years – when I left my senior position at what is now Glaxo SmithKline in 1999. I just wanted to get the 21-million older adults in America online. So I started Generations on Line, a national nonprofit based in Philadelphia,...
By Media Coverage | Mar 3, 2015
Green Cactus Project is a low-to-no-cost home modification and repair program for low-income rural mobile homeowners of the elderly, military families, families with children, military veterans and individuals with service-connected disabilities. In 2010, we moved to...
By Karen M. Sughrue | Mar 3, 2015
I am the Executive Director of Allegheny Mountain Institute in Staunton, Virginia. AMI is an intensive, hands-on, cooperative, experiential learning and training program designed to teach members of our communities to grow and prepare their own food and to understand...
By Karen M. Sughrue | Mar 3, 2015
In May 2008, I woke up following surgery to discover that I was deaf. No one could figure out the cause so, after months of deafness, I got a cochlear implant. While being truly grateful for its blessings, it has its limitations. My artificial hearing was not...
