The day after Lynne Kaufman retired in 2005, she woke up in tears. “What had I done?”...
A months-long campaign by advocates for seniors, the disabled and other vulnerable populations has convinced San Francisco's...
SF SENIORBEAT COLUMN – March 17, 1886. A date you probably never considered. Carroll County, Mississippi. A...
“I'm Chiquita Banana, and I'm here to say, bananas have to ripen in a certain way,” Margot...
One day in 1993, on her daily walk from her Richmond District home to Golden Gate Park’s...
If you grow up in Los Angeles, where do you find the wild? Norm Gershenz is not...
During the day, you’ll find Thomas Drohan in court or at his law office on Mission Street....
Like some people need coffee, Joan Wong needs to walk – and talk. Mornings, she puts in...
Joe Edley tucks his co-authored book, “Everything Scrabble,” under his arm and surveys the room. Around him,...
Robert Wachter is the doctor who oversees all the other doctors at the University of California, San...
J & G Upholstery stretches back farther than it looks from the sidewalk on Balboa Street. Stacks...
EDITOR'S NOTE: See full profiles of the seniors interviewed by clicking links within the story. A panoply...
During the day, you’ll find Thomas Drohan in court or at his law office on Mission Street. But on many Tuesday nights, he’s playing the standup bass at the Page Bar, a neighborhood watering hole on the edge of the Upper Haight. Drohan, 68, an attorney for more than three decades, is the director of ...
Like some people need coffee, Joan Wong needs to walk – and talk. Mornings, she puts in two to three miles a day up and down the hills of Glen Park Canyon near her home. Afternoons, you’ll find her strolling the neighborhood with her dogs, greeting friends, and chatting up strangers. But her superpower, she ...
Joe Edley tucks his co-authored book, “Everything Scrabble,” under his arm and surveys the room. Around him, players sit with boards arranged and tiles upright on their racks. He begins gently — reviewing short words, simple combinations — then quickly moves deeper into board control, opening strategy, and the subtle art of rack management. Earlier, ...
Robert Wachter is the doctor who oversees all the other doctors at the University of California, San Francisco. He’s also one of the country’s leading voices on artificial intelligence in medicine, as well as an author and YouTube host, a sports enthusiast, and a musician who plays Elton John on the piano. He’s published two ...
J & G Upholstery stretches back farther than it looks from the sidewalk on Balboa Street. Stacks of yellow foam wrapped in plastic sit along a wall and rolls of fabric line the shelves as chairs in different stages of repair rest on worktables with their springs exposed. James Ross, 91, stands near the back ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: See full profiles of the seniors interviewed by clicking links within the story. A panoply of health issues, including slow-moving Parkinson’s, and kidney disease, prompted Jody Reiss, a retired therapist and AIDS educator, to move into an assisted living facility – at the relatively young age of 68. Most residents are 75 or ...
