aging

Practicality atop an adventurous spirit has Potrero Hill resident contemplating eventual move even as she continues to build community

April 30, 2025 0 Comments

Contact her at robinevans@sfseniorbeat.com. Even as she speaks, calmly, about uprooting herself from the neighborhood she’s lived in for 39 years, Audrey Cole is still organizing lunch potlucks, clothing swaps, and cocktail parties to bring people together. An invite to a recent cocktail party at her Potrero Hill home encouraged people to bring neighbors. There would ...

A life of resilience: Escaping Soviet antisemitism, Tatyana Yasnovsky built a life in San Francisco as she practiced psychiatry  

March 19, 2025 Life in the Later Lane 0 Comments

For Tatyana Yasnovsky, a retired psychiatrist and émigré from the former Soviet Union, her arrival in America in the mid-‘70s was fraught and unforgettable. “I had two little kids on my hands and we were very anxious about the prospect of living in America,” she said. Prompted to leave Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, to escape ...

As kids, we want to be older; when we’re older, not so much. Contemplating our mission as we experience the stages of aging.

April 28, 2023 All Posts

GUEST COLUMN My husband’s older cousin, Stuart, told an amusing story some years back. It went like this: As was his usual Saturday custom, he went into his local McDonald’s restaurant and ordered a coffee. The cashier took his order and rang him up. “That’ll be $1.09, sir.” Stuart was surprised. “No, I think you ...

“80 Over 80”: Interviews with elders is all about fostering respect for long life, endurance and the wisdom available to us

July 25, 2022 All Posts

One too many magazines hyping the “30 under 30’”or “40 under 40” jolted a San Francisco geriatrician into countering with an “80 Over 80” project. After three years of interviewing these older city residents, the results can now be seen at 80over80sf.org. “It crystallized something in me: What about seniors?” Dr. Anna Chodos, an associate ...

Pin It on Pinterest