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14 20 Savvy Senior 6 Financial Health 8 Gardening 10 My Turn 18 Aging 22 Golden Years 34 Visits 44 Consumers Corner 46 Druger’s Zoo 48 50 Q&A
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Former CEO Paul Kronenberg: Life after Crouse Hospital
12 TRENDS
30 RELATIONS
14 ADVOCACY
32 LEADERSHIP
• Boomerang kids: Adult children returning home in droves
• Sage Upstate helps members of older LGBT community
16 Trends
• Adventures in unemployment
20 PROFILE
• The melodic life of Liverpool’s Joe Riposo
24 COVER
• Mason Kaufman: Thirty years with Meals on Wheels of Syracuse
• Single’s groups becoming more popular among 55-plus population
• Linda Alexander carries philanthropic torch for Jewish groups
36 NOSTALGIA
• WRVO-FM and the golden age of radio
38 FIRST PERSON
• ‘What Toastmaster has done for me’
40 ARTS
• Cork Goss wants more murals in Upstate New York February / March 2014 - 55 plus
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