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You Hear It All The Time...“I Don’t Want To Be A Burden.”
Written by Paul C Bastante, CAPS, for The Agewise Institute & Sponsored by 101 Mobility North Jersey It is the Quietest — And Most Heartbreaking — Sentence We Hear from seniors: “The hardest words many older adults never say out loud are: ‘I don’t want to be a burden.’” If you work in aging-in-place, healthcare, caregiving, or if you simply love someone getting older, you’ve heard this sentence before. Maybe not word-for-word. But you’ve heard it. You hear it when someone sto
Paul Bastante
5 days ago3 min read


“Oh, The Good Life…”
Written by Paul C Bastante, CAPS, for The Agewise Institute & Sponsored by 101 Mobility North Jersey What Tony Bennett Understood About Aging Better Than Most People Realize “Mmm, the good life, let's you hide all the sadness you feel inside...…” There’s something haunting about that song. A preview of The AGEWISE Podcast Episode 2 with Linda Fau from Visiting Angels in Wayne, N.J. On the surface, Tony Bennett made “The Good Life” sound smooth, classy, elegant — the soundtrac
Paul Bastante
May 183 min read
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