Allies in Aging Blog

Jason Rodriguez, Director of Finance, Allies in Aging If you did a search on the topic of Well-Being, you would inevitably come across a conceptual model called the Pillars of Well-Being. Some models have 4 Pillars, others have 7, but most overlap enough that Well-Being is composed of Physical, Intellectual, and Emotional components. For this article, I was asked to write a few thoughts on Intellectual Well-Being. The foundation of Intellectual Well-Being starts with Curiosit

Karen Grosz remembers a man in the Phoenix neighborhood where she and Paul, her husband, once spent a winter as snowbirds: two and a half hours a day in his garage, television humming, just watching people walk past. Any longer upset the homeowners' association. "And that was his purpose every day," Grosz says. "Just to sit and watch people go by." She's careful not to turn the man in the garage into a cautionary tale. Maybe that really was his contentment, and for some peopl