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A

Accessibility settings

the built-in controls on any phone, tablet, or computer that enlarge text, raise contrast, add captions, or read pages aloud. There to bend the device to your body.
from Never Too Late to Learn

Account

your personal sign-in to a tool, which lets it remember your past chats. Usually free to create.
from AI Without the Jargon

Account

Your personal identity with a company, a name and password that prove the things inside belong to you. It lives on the company's computers, not on your device, which is why you can reach it from any phone or laptop.
from Technology Without Embarrassment

Active ingredient

The working part of a medicine, the thing that produces the effect. Listed on the back panel of anything sold off the shelf. Two products with different names on the front can carry the same active ingredient inside.
from Medicines Without Confusion

Activities of daily living

the basics of caring for a body, bathing, dressing, eating, using the toilet, moving from bed to chair. What someone can and can't do here shapes the care they need.
from The Caregiver’s Compass

Addiction-medicine specialist

A doctor with specific training in helping people change their relationship with alcohol and other substances, safely and without judgment. One of the outer-ring professionals worth knowing exists.
from Rethinking Drinking After 60

Adherence

The word professionals use for taking a medicine the way it was prescribed. If someone asks about your adherence, they're asking, without judgment, how it's actually going.
from Medicines Without Confusion

Advance directive

An umbrella term for documents recording your wishes about medical care for a time when you can't speak for yourself. Often includes naming a decision-maker and stating preferences about treatment. The specific forms and names differ by location.
from Put Your Life in Order

Advance directive (or living will)

a written statement of a person's own wishes about care near the end of life.
from The Caregiver’s Compass

AI (artificial intelligence)

software that performs tasks we associate with human thinking. The kind in this book mostly works with language.
from AI Without the Jargon

Algorithm

a set of steps followed in order. Like a recipe.
from AI Without the Jargon

Anchor

Used here for anything that happens at a set time, on a set day, with something outside your own willpower holding it in place.
from Your First Healthy Year of Retirement

Anchor spot

the two or three places where you truly live your days, set up first in a new home to make it feel familiar fast.
from Less House, More Life

Anticipatory grief

grief that begins before a death, while the person is still alive and declining. Common, and often hidden.
from The Caregiver’s Compass

Anxiety

The body and mind bracing for a threat, real or imagined. Common and treatable; becomes a concern when it's frequent, out of proportion, or interfering with sleep, eating, or daily life.
from Strong Enough to Talk

App

A single tool for a single job, the camera, the weather, the bank, sitting on your device. Each app is its own room; you're always in exactly one at a time.
from Technology Without Embarrassment

Appetite

The desire to eat. It can fade with age, illness, low mood, or certain medicines, and its absence doesn't prove you don't need food.
from Eat Enough to Stay Strong

Appraisal

a professional, independent estimate of what an item is genuinely worth, useful before selling anything of real value.
from Less House, More Life

Arthritis

a general word for joint pain and inflammation, covering many different conditions. "Osteoarthritis" usually refers to the common wear-related kind; "rheumatoid arthritis" is an inflammatory, immune-driven type that needs specialist care.
from Move Better, Hurt Less

Auditing (a class)

taking a course for the learning without grades, credit, or exams. Many community colleges offer it to older adults cheaply or free.
from Never Too Late to Learn

B

Backup

A safe copy of your things, photos, contacts, files, kept somewhere other than your device (usually in an account, "in the cloud"), so that losing or breaking the device doesn't lose the things.
from Technology Without Embarrassment

Balance

your body's constant, mostly unconscious work of keeping you upright, drawing on your inner ear, your eyes, and the sensors in your feet and joints. A skill that fades with disuse and can be rebuilt with gentle practice.
from Strong, Steady, and Independent

Baseline

your own usual digestive pattern, how often, how easy, how it normally feels. The personal yardstick you measure changes against.
from A Happier Gut After 60

Baseline

An honest record of where you're starting: how you sleep, move, eat, and who you see, written down before you change anything.
from Your First Healthy Year of Retirement

Baseline

A record of where your health stands now, so that later changes mean something.
from Men’s Health After 60

Batch cooking

cooking a larger amount of something once and eating it across several days, often freezing part. A practical answer to cooking fatigue and cooking for one.
from Protein After 60

Belonging

the felt sense of being a familiar, welcome part of some group or place. Built through repeated contact, not luck.
from The Next Chapter

Beneficiary

The person or organization named to receive money or property directly from a particular account or policy, such as life insurance or a retirement account. The named beneficiary usually receives that money regardless of what your will says, which is why keeping these designations current matters so much.
from Put Your Life in Order

Blended family

the family created when people with existing children, and sometimes grandchildren, form a new relationship, bringing their prior families together.
from Dating Again After 60

Bloating

a feeling of fullness, tightness, or swelling in the belly, often from gas or swallowed air.
from A Happier Gut After 60

Blood pressure

the force of blood pushing against the walls of your arteries as your heart beats and rests. Written as two numbers, one over the other.
from A Calmer Number

Blood sugar (glucose)

The sugar that travels in your blood and fuels your body, coming mostly from food. Everyone has it; this is about how smoothly yours is handled.
from Prediabetes: Your Next Best Step

Bone density scan (DEXA)

A low-dose imaging test that measures bone mineral density, usually at the hip and spine. The result is reported as a score compared with a reference; what it means for you depends on your history, and whether and when to have one is an individual decision.
from Women’s Health After Menopause

Boundary

a clear statement of what you will and won't do, held with warmth. Not a rule imposed on another person, which you can't enforce, but a line around your own choices, which you can.
from Loving Them Without Losing Yourself

Boundary

a limit on what someone will or won't do, or accept. Healthy families have them in both directions, parents and grandparents.
from Grandparenting with Love and Boundaries

BPH (benign prostatic hyperplasia)

Age-related enlargement of the prostate. Not cancer and doesn't become cancer. The most common cause of urinary changes in older men.
from Men’s Health After 60

Brand name and generic name

Every medicine has a chemical name and often a manufacturer's trade name. A generic version contains the same active ingredient and generally costs less. Confusion between the two names is one of the commonest causes of accidental doubling up.
from Medicines Without Confusion

Brown bag review

An appointment where you bring every container in a bag rather than just a list, so labels can be checked directly.
from Medicines Without Confusion

Brown-bag review

bringing every medication and supplement you take, in one bag, to a pharmacist or doctor to check for effects and interactions.
from A Happier Gut After 60

Browser

The app you use to look at websites, the one where you type an address and reach the internet.
from Technology Without Embarrassment

C

Carbohydrate

One of the main things food is made of, and the body's usual source of glucose. Found in bread, rice, fruit, beans, milk, and more. Not an enemy, a category to be balanced.
from Prediabetes: Your Next Best Step

Cardiovascular risk

An estimate of your chance of a heart attack or stroke over a given period, calculated from several factors together rather than any one number.
from Women’s Health After Menopause

Care manager (or geriatric care manager)

a professional, often a nurse or social worker, who assesses needs and helps arrange and coordinate care. One of the most useful and underused helpers.
from The Caregiver’s Compass

Caregiver burnout

the physical and emotional exhaustion that comes from giving care without enough rest and support. Predictable, serious, and treatable.
from The Caregiver’s Compass

Cartilage

the smooth, cushioning surface on the ends of bones inside a joint. Wear here is part of osteoarthritis.
from Move Better, Hurt Less

Catfishing

when someone uses fake photos and a false identity online to deceive you, often the opening move of a romance scam.
from Dating Again After 60

CBT-I (cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia)

a short, structured, drug-free program that sleep doctors generally reach for first with long-running insomnia. Set up with a trained professional.
from Sleep Better After 60

Charter

your own short, written statement of who you are, what these years are for, and how you mean to live them. A compass you make and can revise.
from The Next Chapter

ChatGPT / Gemini / Copilot / Claude

popular chat tools. Different makers, same basic idea, type in plain words, get plain words back.
from AI Without the Jargon

Circadian rhythm

your internal clock, the roughly 24-hour cycle that decides when you feel sleepy and when you feel alert. Light, especially morning light, is its main signal.
from Sleep Better After 60

Combination product

A single product containing more than one active ingredient, usually sold for multiple symptoms at once. The reason to read the panel before you buy.
from Medicines Without Confusion

Companion

someone you do things with and genuinely enjoy, but might not open your whole heart to. The steady middle of most people's social lives.
from Friendship After 60

Complete protein

a protein food that carries the full set of building blocks the body needs. Most animal foods are complete; soy is a plant example. A mixed diet across the day is complete even if single plant foods aren't.
from Protein After 60

Composition

how the parts of a piece are arranged, where the eye or ear is led. A common thing feedback and revision address.
from Your Creative Second Act

Confidant

a person you could call in the middle of the night with bad news. The innermost, and often smallest, ring of a social life.
from Friendship After 60

Consignment

an arrangement where a shop displays and sells your work for you and takes a share of the price. One low-pressure way to sell handmade goods.
from Your Creative Second Act

Constipation

a real departure from your normal toward less frequent, harder, or more difficult stools, or a sense of not finishing. Defined by change and difficulty, not by a daily calendar.
from A Happier Gut After 60

Continuity binder

This book's name for a single organized place, physical or partly digital, that lets a trusted person keep your household running or wind it down. Also sometimes called a "when I'm gone" file, though it's just as useful during a hospital stay or long absence.
from Put Your Life in Order

Cook-once base

a plainish food cooked in a larger amount, roast chicken, beans, lentils, roasted vegetables, that becomes several different meals across the week.
from The Two-Plate Kitchen

Copyright

the legal ownership of original creative work. Yours is yours; others' is theirs. Using someone else's, especially to share or sell, has real rules worth checking.
from Your Creative Second Act

Credit freeze

a free lock on your credit file that stops anyone from opening new accounts in your name until you lift it. Doesn't affect your existing accounts or your score.
from Don’t Get Scammed

Crisis line

A phone or text service for people in acute distress or danger, staffed around the clock. In the U.S., 988 is the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Verify current numbers for your region.
from Strong Enough to Talk

Critique (or feedback)

another person's observations about your work. Information to weigh, never a verdict to obey.
from Your Creative Second Act

Cryptocurrency

digital money (like Bitcoin) that's hard to trace and reverse, which is why scammers favor it. No real agency asks to be paid this way.
from Don’t Get Scammed

Cue

The trigger, a time, place, feeling, or person, that automatically starts a drinking routine before you've consciously chosen it. Changing what happens at the cue is the heart of cutting back.
from Rethinking Drinking After 60

Cuff

the band that wraps your arm and inflates to take a reading. Getting the right size for your arm matters for accuracy.
from A Calmer Number

D

Dating app / dating site

a website or phone program where people post a short profile and can message one another. Different makers, same basic idea.
from Dating Again After 60

Decluttering

clearing out things you no longer use, love, or need, whether or not you're moving.
from Less House, More Life

Deliberate practice

working at the specific edge of your ability, slowly and with feedback, rather than rehearsing what you can already do. The kind of practice that actually produces skill.
from Never Too Late to Learn

Deprescribing

The planned, supervised reduction or stopping of a medicine that's no longer worth its place. A decision made with a prescriber, never alone.
from Medicines Without Confusion

Deprescribing

A deliberate review of everything you take, asking for each whether it's still needed and whether the dose is still right.
from Women’s Health After Menopause

Depressant

A substance that slows the nervous system. Alcohol is one, which is why it sedates you at first, and also why it can deepen low mood and anxiety after the initial lift fades.
from Rethinking Drinking After 60

Depression

More than sadness. A persistent low mood or, often in older men, a flat numbness, lasting weeks, with loss of interest, changes in sleep and appetite, and sometimes a sense of worthlessness. A medical condition, not a character flaw or a normal part of aging. Treatable.
from Strong Enough to Talk

Diastolic

the bottom number. The pressure between beats, when your heart relaxes and refills. The lower of the two.
from A Calmer Number

Digital rectal exam

A brief physical examination in which a clinician feels the prostate through the rectal wall. Uncomfortable, quick, and one of several ways of assessing the gland.
from Men’s Health After 60

Directive

Shorthand for an advance directive or the treatment-preference part of one. See advance directive.
from Put Your Life in Order

Dormant connection

a person you were once close to who simply drifted out of contact, no fight, no reason. Often one brave message away from being a friend again.
from Friendship After 60

Downsizing

moving to, or living in, a smaller or simpler home, and reducing belongings to match. Here it means keeping the right amount, not the least possible.
from Less House, More Life

Draft (or rough version)

an early, unfinished, deliberately imperfect version of a piece, made to be improved later. First drafts are supposed to be bad.
from Your Creative Second Act

Dry mouth

A lack of saliva that makes chewing, swallowing, and tasting harder. Often a side effect of medicines, and worth mentioning to your doctor or pharmacist.
from Eat Enough to Stay Strong

Dysphagia

The medical word for difficulty swallowing. It needs prompt medical attention, and often an assessment by a speech-language pathologist.
from Eat Enough to Stay Strong

E

EIN (Employer Identification Number)

A number some businesses use to identify themselves for tax purposes, a bit like a Social Security number for a business. Whether you need one depends on your situation; a tax professional can tell you.
from Second-Act Business

Enabling

stepping between someone and the consequences of their behavior in a way that quietly keeps a harmful pattern going. The costly form of rescue, especially around addiction.
from Loving Them Without Losing Yourself

Endurance

the ability to keep going, walking, moving, without having to stop and recover. Tied closely to your heart and lungs.
from Strong, Steady, and Independent

Energy density

How much fuel a food carries for its size. Butter, cheese, and nuts are high; lettuce and clear broth are low. When eating small, you want more of the high kind, so each bite counts.
from Eat Enough to Stay Strong

Enmeshment

a relationship so tangled together that where one person ends and the other begins gets lost, so that one adult's feelings, choices, and problems automatically become the other's.
from Loving Them Without Losing Yourself

Enough

the amount, of money, of doing, of having, that actually satisfies the life you want. Knowing yours is what quiets comparison.
from The Next Chapter

Enriching (or fortifying) food

Adding rich ingredients, butter, cream, cheese, oil, nuts, to ordinary food so a small portion carries more nourishment, without making the plate bigger.
from Eat Enough to Stay Strong

Erectile dysfunction

Persistent difficulty getting or keeping an erection. Often related to blood vessels, and sometimes an early sign of wider circulation problems.
from Men’s Health After 60

Estate

Everything you own and owe at the time of your death, taken together. Having an "estate" doesn't mean being wealthy; nearly everyone has one, however modest.
from Put Your Life in Order

Estate sale

an organized sale of most of a household's contents, often run by a professional for a share of the proceeds. What they charge and how they work varies locally.
from Less House, More Life

Estimated taxes

Tax payments some self-employed people make through the year rather than all at once, because no employer is withholding for them anymore. Whether and how much applies to you depends on your income; ask a tax professional.
from Second-Act Business

Estrangement

an ongoing distance or cutoff between family members. More common than the silence around it suggests, and not always permanent.
from Loving Them Without Losing Yourself

Estrangement

a state of little or no contact between family members, usually after conflict or a breakdown in the relationship. It can be partial (reduced contact) or complete.
from Grandparenting with Love and Boundaries

Estrogen

The hormone whose decline after menopause drives most of the changes in this book, with effects on bone, blood vessels, and the tissues of the vagina and urinary tract.
from Women’s Health After Menopause

Executor

The person named in a will to carry out its instructions, gather what you owned, settle debts, and distribute the rest. Called different things in different places. It's more administrative chore than honor, and it's a real job.
from Put Your Life in Order

Exercise professional

A qualified trainer or instructor, ideally one with specific experience of older adults or of your condition, who can teach and progress activity safely.
from Your First Healthy Year of Retirement

F

Factory reset

Erasing a device completely, back to its blank, like-new state. The essential step before giving away, selling, or recycling any device, so your private information doesn't go with it.
from Technology Without Embarrassment

Fall risk

the stack of factors, weakness, poor balance, hazards, medications, vision, that together make a fall more or less likely. Most factors can be reduced. Your doctor can assess yours.
from Strong, Steady, and Independent

Familiar

a warm, regular face you know within one setting and have never seen outside it, the barber, the neighbor, the class regular. The soil that companions grow from.
from Friendship After 60

Family agreement

a shared understanding, spoken or written, about how a grandparent will be involved and how the family will handle disagreements. Not a legal contract, a clarity tool.
from Grandparenting with Love and Boundaries

Fiber

the filling, slow-digesting part of vegetables, fruit, beans, and whole grains. Helps you feel full and stay full.
from Lose Weight, Keep Your Strength

Fiber

The tough part of plants your body doesn't fully break down. It slows sugar's entry into the blood, which is why fiber-rich foods tend to be gentler. Found in whole grains, beans, vegetables, whole fruit.
from Prediabetes: Your Next Best Step

Fiber

the part of plant foods your body doesn't fully break down. The water-soaking kind (oats, beans, apples, psyllium) softens stool; the bulky kind (wheat bran, whole grains, vegetable skins) adds bulk. Most plants have some of each.
from A Happier Gut After 60

Fiduciary

A person or organization with a legal duty to act in your best interest, not their own. Some professionals can serve as a paid, trustworthy stand-in for family roles when no suitable relative is available.
from Put Your Life in Order

Financial power of attorney

a document naming someone to handle another person's money matters, made while that person is still able to understand and agree.
from The Caregiver’s Compass

First-night box

the essentials you'll need the first night in a new home, packed separately and kept with you during the move.
from Less House, More Life

Flare

a temporary worsening of pain and symptoms, which settles again. Different from a lasting change.
from Move Better, Hurt Less

Formulary

The list of medicines an insurance plan covers, and at what cost. Two similar medicines can sit at very different prices on the same formulary.
from Medicines Without Confusion

Function

What your body can do in ordinary life. Getting off the floor, carrying the shopping, managing the stairs. The measure that matters most at this stage.
from Your First Healthy Year of Retirement

G

Gastrocolic reflex

the natural signal, strongest in the morning, that gets the lower bowel moving after you eat, why many people feel the urge to go after breakfast.
from A Happier Gut After 60

Gastroenterologist

a doctor who specializes in the digestive system, whom your regular doctor may refer you to for a closer look.
from A Happier Gut After 60

Genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM)

The collection of changes to vaginal, vulvar, and urinary tissue caused by lower estrogen: dryness, irritation, pain with sex, urgency, and more frequent urinary infections. Progressive if untreated, and treatable.
from Women’s Health After Menopause

Ghosting

when someone you've been talking to suddenly stops replying with no explanation. Common, impersonal, and rarely a real report on your worth.
from Dating Again After 60

Gift-card scam

any demand that you pay a bill, fee, or fine with gift cards. Always a scam, without exception.
from Don’t Get Scammed

Gray-rock / no-pressure openness

in a rift, the practice of keeping the door open with one calm, warm signal rather than repeated pursuit, so the other person can return on their own terms.
from Grandparenting with Love and Boundaries

Grief

the natural response of love and attachment meeting loss. It comes in waves, doesn't follow tidy stages, and slowly softens rather than ending.
from The Next Chapter

Grief

Sadness attached to a specific loss, a person, a role, a way of life. It doesn't keep a schedule and it isn't a problem to be solved, but a process to be moved through, ideally not alone.
from Strong Enough to Talk

Guardianship / conservatorship

a legal arrangement in which a court gives one person authority over another's decisions or affairs. Serious, legally binding, and always a matter for a qualified attorney, never a book.
from Loving Them Without Losing Yourself

H

Hallucination

when the tool states something false in a confident tone. It guessed, and the guess was wrong.
from AI Without the Jargon

Health-care power of attorney (or proxy)

a document naming who makes medical decisions for a person if they can't make them for themselves.
from The Caregiver’s Compass

Health-care proxy

A document naming the person authorized to make medical decisions for you if you can't. Also called a medical power of attorney or health-care agent, depending on where you live.
from Put Your Life in Order

Heirloom

a possession passed down through a family, valued more for its meaning and history than its price.
from Less House, More Life

Home monitoring

taking your own readings between visits, done with good technique and written down, so your doctor sees the real pattern.
from A Calmer Number

Hormone therapy (HT or MHT)

Prescription treatment with estrogen, with a second hormone added if you still have a uterus, taken to treat menopausal symptoms. Given throughout the body or applied locally, which are different propositions.
from Women’s Health After Menopause

Hospice

care for someone near the end of life, focused on comfort, dignity, and support for the person and family.
from The Caregiver’s Compass

Hypertension

the medical word for blood pressure that stays higher than your doctor wants it to be, over time.
from A Calmer Number

I

Icon

A little picture that stands for an app or an action. Learn what its job is, not one exact design, since designers redraw them constantly.
from Technology Without Embarrassment

Identity

your sense of who you are. Made of many parts, roles, values, relationships, qualities, not just what you did for work.
from The Next Chapter

Identity theft

using your personal information, name, Social Security number, account details, to open credit, claim benefits, or make charges in your name.
from Don’t Get Scammed

Impostor scam

any scam where the criminal pretends to be someone you'd trust, a grandchild, an official, your bank, to lower your guard.
from Don’t Get Scammed

Incomplete protein

a food a little short in one building block or another, true of most single plant foods. Not a problem in practice, because eating a variety of plants across the day fills in the gaps.
from Protein After 60

Indigestion

a general term for discomfort in the upper belly around eating, fullness, burning, or unease.
from A Happier Gut After 60

Inflammation

the body's response to irritation or injury, which can bring heat, swelling, and pain. Some is normal healing; a hot, swollen joint with fever needs prompt attention.
from Move Better, Hurt Less

Instrumental activities of daily living

the tasks of running a life, managing money, medications, cooking, shopping, transportation, using the phone. People usually lose these before the basics.
from The Caregiver’s Compass

Insulin

A hormone that acts like a key, letting sugar move from your blood into your cells. In prediabetes, this system has gotten a bit less efficient.
from Prediabetes: Your Next Best Step

Interaction

When alcohol and a medication affect each other, one making the other stronger, weaker, longer-lasting, or more irritating to the body. Common after sixty because most people take several medications. A pharmacist can tell you which of yours matter.
from Rethinking Drinking After 60

Interaction

A change in how a medicine behaves because something else is present, whether another medicine, a supplement, a food, a drink, or another condition.
from Medicines Without Confusion

Invoice

A simple document telling a customer what they owe, for what, and by when. Even a plain one helps you get paid and keeps your records clear.
from Second-Act Business

K

Kidney disease / reduced kidney function

conditions in which the kidneys don't filter as well as they should. Because the kidneys handle byproducts of protein, people with these conditions often need to manage protein carefully with their medical team, sometimes eating less rather than more.
from Protein After 60

L

Learning portfolio

the mix of learning projects you keep going at once, of different sizes and temperatures, rather than a single all-consuming passion.
from Never Too Late to Learn

Liability insurance

A modestly priced policy that helps cover you if your work causes harm or a customer claims it did. For many kinds of work, worth its cost so one accident can't reach your savings.
from Second-Act Business

Lifelong-learning institute

a program, often tied to a university, made specifically for retired adults learning for pleasure, usually with no tests anywhere in it.
from Never Too Late to Learn

Little and often

Eating small amounts many times a day rather than three big meals, which suits a small appetite better.
from Eat Enough to Stay Strong

Living apart together (LAT)

a committed couple who choose to keep separate homes rather than marry or move in together. A common and complete arrangement, not a lesser one.
from Dating Again After 60

Living will

A written statement of your wishes about medical treatment in certain serious situations. Overlaps with "advance directive"; the terminology and legal weight vary by place.
from Put Your Life in Order

LLC (limited liability company)

A more formal structure that puts a legal wall between the business and your personal assets, so a business debt or lawsuit is less likely to reach your home and savings. Costs a bit and takes paperwork. Whether you need one depends on your risk and your state.
from Second-Act Business

Local (vaginal) treatment

Prescription treatment applied directly to the vagina, which behaves differently in the body from treatment taken throughout it.
from Women’s Health After Menopause

Loneliness

The ache of a missing connection. Not the same as being alone; you can be lonely in a crowd and content by yourself. A signal, like hunger, that a real need wants meeting.
from Strong Enough to Talk

Low-impact

activity that moves and loads joints smoothly without pounding or jolting them, like walking, water exercise, or a stationary bike.
from Move Better, Hurt Less

M

Machine learning

how these programs got good, by practicing on huge amounts of examples rather than being given rules one by one.
from AI Without the Jargon

Maintenance

the long phase of keeping a healthy weight and your strength once you've reached them. A skill of its own, not the absence of dieting.
from Lose Weight, Keep Your Strength

Margin

The cushion in your price above your costs and your paid time, what keeps the business making a little more than it spends. Without margin, a business only breaks even, which isn't enough to last.
from Second-Act Business

Match

on most apps, a mutual signal of interest that lets two people message each other.
from Dating Again After 60

Maybe box

a sealed, dated box for items you can't decide about, opened later, when the decision is easier. A tool, not a hiding place.
from Less House, More Life

Medication reconciliation

The formal act of comparing two lists, usually the one you arrived with and the one you're leaving with, to make sure nothing was added, dropped, or duplicated by accident. Ask for it by name at any hospital discharge.
from Medicines Without Confusion

Medication review

a periodic check of all your medicines together, with your doctor or pharmacist, to catch clashes, duplicates, and anything you may no longer need.
from A Calmer Number

Medication review

A proper look, usually with a doctor or pharmacist, at everything you take, to check it's all still needed, still working, and not interacting badly.
from Your First Healthy Year of Retirement

Medium

the material or form you work in, paint, clay, words, music, photographs, fabric. You can have more than one.
from Your Creative Second Act

Melatonin

a supplement related to the body's own sleep-timing signal. It may have a role for some sleep problems, but dose and timing matter, so it's a question for your clinician rather than a guess off a label.
from Sleep Better After 60

Metabolic health

A shorthand for how your body handles blood sugar, fats, and blood pressure, and how weight around the middle affects all three.
from Men’s Health After 60

Minimum viable week

The reduced version of your routine that survives a trip, an illness, or a crisis, and keeps the shape of the habit alive.
from Your First Healthy Year of Retirement

Mobility (range of motion)

how far your joints can comfortably move. Lost range often comes from joints not being moved through their full arc, and gentle movement helps preserve it.
from Strong, Steady, and Independent

Model

the trained program itself. The "well-read helper" doing the work.
from AI Without the Jargon

Moderation

Drinking less, or more deliberately, rather than stopping entirely. A legitimate goal for many people, especially lighter drinkers. Not always the right path for heavy drinkers, which is a question for a professional.
from Rethinking Drinking After 60

Muscle loss

The gradual loss of muscle that tends to come with age, sped up by undereating. It matters because muscle is what keeps you strong, steady, and independent. Doctors sometimes call the age-related form sarcopenia.
from Eat Enough to Stay Strong

Muscle loss with age

the gradual, natural decline in muscle that most people experience as they get older, faster if the body isn't given good food and regular use. Doctors have a formal name for the more serious form of it, but the plain idea is what matters here.
from Protein After 60

Muscle mass

the amount of muscle on your body. After sixty it tends to decline on its own unless you give it a reason to stay, which is why protecting it is the heart of this book.
from Lose Weight, Keep Your Strength

N

Niche

The specific customer and problem you focus on. A narrow, clear niche makes you findable and trusted faster than trying to serve everyone.
from Second-Act Business

Nocturia

waking in the night to use the bathroom. Common after 60, sometimes workable at home, and worth raising with a doctor if it's frequent or new.
from Sleep Better After 60

Nocturia

Waking at night to urinate.
from Men’s Health After 60

Non-exercise activity

all the ordinary movement of a day, walking, chores, stairs, standing, that adds up to more than most workouts and is gentle on the body.
from Lose Weight, Keep Your Strength

Non-negotiable

a rule the parents treat as fixed and not open to your latitude, most often a safety rule. You follow it exactly.
from Grandparenting with Love and Boundaries

Numbness

A flat, gray "not feeling much of anything." Easy to overlook because it's quiet, but often the form depression takes, and worth taking seriously.
from Strong Enough to Talk

O

Occupational therapist

a professional who assesses your home and daily activities for safety and recommends changes and aids.
from Strong, Steady, and Independent

Occupational therapist

a professional who helps you adapt daily tasks, tools, and your home so activities cost your joints less.
from Move Better, Hurt Less

One in, one out

a simple habit for keeping a home from refilling, when something new comes in, a similar thing leaves.
from Less House, More Life

Operating system

The invisible software the whole device runs on, the world the apps live in. Different brands of phone run different ones underneath.
from Technology Without Embarrassment

Oral nutritional supplements

The high-energy drinks and powders sold to boost nourishment. They have a place for some people, best on top of real food, and whether they suit you is a question for your doctor or dietitian.
from Eat Enough to Stay Strong

Orthostatic drop

a fall in blood pressure when you stand up, which can cause dizziness. Common with age and some medicines, and worth telling your doctor about.
from A Calmer Number

Osteopenia and osteoporosis

Terms describing degrees of reduced bone density, with osteoporosis meaning bone weak enough to raise fracture risk substantially.
from Women’s Health After Menopause

Overdiagnosis

Finding a disease that would never have caused symptoms or shortened life. The main reason screening decisions are genuinely two-sided.
from Men’s Health After 60

Overdiagnosis

Finding a condition through screening that meets the definition of disease but would never have caused symptoms or harm in your lifetime, leading to treatment you didn't need.
from Women’s Health After Menopause

Overhead

The ongoing costs of being in business that aren't tied to one specific job, supplies, fees, equipment wear, and the like. Your prices have to cover these too, which is part of why margin matters.
from Second-Act Business

P

Pacing

doing a steady, moderate amount most days rather than a lot on good days and nothing on bad ones, to avoid the boom-bust cycle.
from Move Better, Hurt Less

Palliative care

care focused on comfort and quality of life during serious illness, which can happen alongside treatment at any stage.
from The Caregiver’s Compass

Password manager

A locked, trustworthy tool that remembers all your passwords so you only have to remember one. What most people who are "good with passwords" quietly use.
from Technology Without Embarrassment

Password manager

A single, well-protected program that stores all your other passwords, so you only need to remember one strong master password. Recommended by security professionals as far safer than reusing passwords or keeping them on paper by the phone.
from Put Your Life in Order

Pelvic floor

The sling of muscle supporting the bladder, bowel, and uterus. It can be weak, or too tight, and the treatment differs.
from Women’s Health After Menopause

Pelvic floor physical therapy

A specialty that assesses and retrains those muscles. Under-referred, and often the most useful treatment for leaking and pelvic pain.
from Women’s Health After Menopause

Pessary

A fitted device placed in the vagina to support a prolapse, avoiding surgery for many women.
from Women’s Health After Menopause

Phase advance

the common age-related shift toward an earlier clock, sleepy earlier in the evening, awake earlier in the morning. Normal for many people, and workable.
from Sleep Better After 60

Phishing

a fake message (email, text, or call) that imitates a real company or person to trick you into giving up information, money, or access. "Smishing" is the text-message version.
from Don’t Get Scammed

Physical therapist

a professional who assesses how you move, finds your specific weaknesses, and designs safe, personalized strength and balance work, teaching you correct form. For most readers, the most valuable professional in this book.
from Strong, Steady, and Independent

Physical therapist (physiotherapist)

a movement specialist who assesses how you move, finds weak or stiff links, and builds a specific, progressive plan for you.
from Move Better, Hurt Less

Physiotherapist (physical therapist)

A regulated professional who assesses how you move and designs a program for your particular body, injuries, and conditions.
from Your First Healthy Year of Retirement

Pill organizer

A box with compartments for each day, and often for each time of day. Turns "did I take it?" into something you can see rather than remember.
from Medicines Without Confusion

Plateau

a flat stretch where practice seems to produce no progress. Normal, temporary, and broken by fresh challenge and patience, not a sign you've reached a limit.
from Never Too Late to Learn

Plateau

a stretch where weight stops changing. Usually normal, often the body settling at a new weight, and sometimes just fat quietly swapping for muscle where the scale can't see.
from Lose Weight, Keep Your Strength

Plateau

A stretch where things stop changing. Normal, not failure. Sometimes "holding steady" is itself a genuine result.
from Prediabetes: Your Next Best Step

Polypharmacy

Taking several medicines at once, usually said of five or more. It's a description, not a diagnosis, and it's a reason for regular review rather than for alarm.
from Medicines Without Confusion

Postmenopause

Everything after the twelve-month mark since your last period. For most women, decades.
from Women’s Health After Menopause

Power of attorney

A document in which you authorize someone to act for you in financial or legal matters. There are different kinds, some effective immediately, some only if you lose capacity, some designed to survive that loss and some not. Which you want is a question for an attorney where you live.
from Put Your Life in Order

Practice

the regular habit of making, as distinct from any single project. The home you live in; projects are what you make while there.
from Your Creative Second Act

Prediabetes

An early stage where the body handles blood sugar a little less smoothly than before, picked up on a test. An early warning with real room to act, not the same as diabetes. Your doctor decides whether it applies to you.
from Prediabetes: Your Next Best Step

Prescribing cascade

When a side effect of one medicine is mistaken for a new condition and treated with a second medicine. Common, rarely anyone's fault, and one of the main things a full review looks for.
from Medicines Without Confusion

Preventive care

Checks, vaccinations, and screenings intended to find or prevent problems before they cause symptoms. Which ones apply to you is an individual decision made with your doctor.
from Your First Healthy Year of Retirement

Probate

The legal process, in many places, for settling an estate after death, proving the will, paying debts, and distributing what remains. It can be slower and more public without good planning; the details differ sharply by location.
from Put Your Life in Order

Profile

the short description and photos you post of yourself, so others can decide whether to say hello.
from Dating Again After 60

Prolapse

When a pelvic organ drops lower than it should, often felt as heaviness or a bulge.
from Women’s Health After Menopause

Prompt

whatever you type or say to the tool. Your request.
from AI Without the Jargon

Prostate

A gland below the bladder, roughly walnut-sized, with the urinary tube running through it.
from Men’s Health After 60

Protein

one of the main things food is made of, along with fats and carbohydrates. It's the body's building and repair material, used to make and maintain muscle, among much else. It comes from both animal foods and plant foods.
from Protein After 60

Protein

the part of food your muscles are built and maintained from, found in eggs, fish, meat, beans, lentils, dairy, tofu, and nuts. Spreading it across your meals matters more with age.
from Lose Weight, Keep Your Strength

Protein

The part of food that builds and maintains muscle and helps you feel satisfied. Meat, fish, eggs, beans, tofu, dairy. A quarter of the balanced plate.
from Prediabetes: Your Next Best Step

Protein

The part of food your body uses to build and keep muscle. Found in eggs, fish, meat, beans and lentils, and dairy. Getting some at each meal helps protect your strength.
from Eat Enough to Stay Strong

PSA (prostate-specific antigen)

A substance made by the prostate and measurable in blood. Levels can rise for many reasons, cancer being one of several.
from Men’s Health After 60

Pulse

your heart rate, the number of beats per minute, which many monitors show alongside your blood pressure.
from A Calmer Number

Purpose

the sense that what you do matters to someone beyond yourself. It doesn't require a title, a salary, or scale.
from The Next Chapter

R

Range of motion

how far a joint moves comfortably. Gentle movement through the range it allows helps keep it mobile.
from Move Better, Hurt Less

Rebound

The swing back the other way after alcohol wears off, more wakefulness in the night after the sedation lifts, more anxiety after the calm fades. It explains the two-a.m. awakening and the next-day low mood.
from Rethinking Drinking After 60

Recovery method

The way you prove it's you and regain entry to an online account when a password alone isn't enough, often a code sent to a phone or email, or a saved backup code. Keeping these current is what prevents being locked out of your own accounts.
from Put Your Life in Order

Red-flag symptoms

the short list of signs that mean stop self-treating and see your doctor promptly, weight loss, bleeding, trouble swallowing, severe pain, persistent change, and the others listed in this book.
from A Happier Gut After 60

Reduced contact / low contact

an arrangement, chosen by the parents, where a grandparent sees the children less than before, short of a full cutoff. Sometimes a step toward repair, sometimes a settled state.
from Grandparenting with Love and Boundaries

Referral

A customer sent to you by someone who trusts you, the most valuable and cheapest way a small business gets new customers. Worth asking for, always.
from Second-Act Business

Refill synchronization

A pharmacy service that lines your prescriptions up so they're all ready on the same day each month. Turns several trips into one.
from Medicines Without Confusion

Reflux (heartburn, acid reflux)

when acidic stomach contents escape upward into the tube behind the breastbone, causing burning or a sour taste.
from A Happier Gut After 60

Registered dietitian

a qualified food-and-nutrition professional who can build eating advice around your specific body, health, and needs, the right person for anything individual or medical.
from The Two-Plate Kitchen

Registered dietitian

a qualified nutrition professional, more strictly trained and regulated than a general "nutritionist," who can build an eating plan around your specific health, conditions, and medications. The right person to set your personal protein plan.
from Protein After 60

Registered dietitian

a qualified food-and-nutrition professional who can tailor eating and protein to your specific body and conditions. The person to ask the specific questions this book deliberately leaves to an expert.
from Lose Weight, Keep Your Strength

Registered dietitian

A qualified food-and-nutrition professional, the real expert to ask when diet advice conflicts. Often available through your doctor; sometimes covered.
from Prediabetes: Your Next Best Step

Registered dietitian

a qualified food-and-nutrition professional, the right expert for testing foods and planning changes without losing nutrition.
from A Happier Gut After 60

Registered dietitian

A qualified professional who assesses what your body needs and builds an eating plan around your health, tastes, and life. The right person when self-help isn't enough.
from Eat Enough to Stay Strong

Registered dietitian

A regulated professional qualified to give individual advice about food, including for medical conditions. Different from a general "nutritionist," whose title is not protected everywhere.
from Your First Healthy Year of Retirement

Remote access

software that lets someone else control your computer. Fine when you seek out real help; catastrophic when a stranger who called you talks you into it.
from Don’t Get Scammed

Rescuing

solving a capable adult's problem for them, carrying their load rather than supporting them to carry it. Feels like love; over time, weakens rather than strengthens.
from Loving Them Without Losing Yourself

Resistance / strength training

movement that makes a muscle work against a force, body weight, a band, light weights, a soup can. The kind of exercise that best tells muscle to stick around. Walking, though excellent, doesn't do this on its own.
from Protein After 60

Resistance training

Any exercise that makes muscles work against a load, including your own body weight. Effective at any age.
from Men’s Health After 60

Resistance work

any activity that makes a muscle push against a meaningful load, chair stands, bands, light weights, wall push-ups. The signal that tells muscle to stay and rebuild.
from Lose Weight, Keep Your Strength

Respite

a break for the caregiver, someone else providing care for a few hours, a day, or longer, so you can rest. Maintenance, not a luxury.
from The Caregiver’s Compass

Respite

Temporary relief for someone caring for another person. Usually has to be asked for, often earlier than people ask.
from Your First Healthy Year of Retirement

Restless legs

an uncomfortable urge to move the legs, usually in the evening, relieved by movement. If it's disturbing your sleep regularly, it's worth mentioning to a doctor.
from Sleep Better After 60

Retrieval practice

pulling a fact out of your memory, even with effort or failure, then checking it. Strengthens learning far more than rereading does.
from Never Too Late to Learn

Reverse image search

a free way to check whether a photo someone sent appears elsewhere online under a different name, one simple test against a fake profile. A helper can show you how once.
from Dating Again After 60

Revision

the work of improving a finished draft, usually in passes, and often where the real quality of a piece is made.
from Your Creative Second Act

Rheumatologist

a doctor specializing in inflammatory and systemic joint and muscle diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis.
from Move Better, Hurt Less

Role

a function you perform, driver, nurse, parent, boss. Real, but temporary, and never the whole of you.
from The Next Chapter

Romance scam

an organized fraud in which a criminal fakes a loving relationship online to get money, following a predictable pattern of fast intensity, no in-person meeting, and eventual money requests.
from Dating Again After 60

Rotation

a loose, repeating rhythm of meal types across a week or two, used instead of a rigid meal plan, so you get structure without being locked in.
from The Two-Plate Kitchen

S

Sarcopenia

the medical name for serious age-related muscle loss. You don't need the word, only the fact underneath it: unused muscle slowly leaves, and it's worth working to keep.
from Lose Weight, Keep Your Strength

Sarcopenia

Age-related loss of muscle mass and strength. Responds to resistance training and adequate protein at any age.
from Women’s Health After Menopause

Screening

Testing people without symptoms to look for a condition early. Which screenings suit you depends on your age, sex, history, and country, and there is no schedule that fits everybody.
from Your First Healthy Year of Retirement

Screening

Testing someone with no symptoms, on the chance of finding disease early. Different from investigating a symptom, which is always warranted.
from Men’s Health After 60

Screening

Testing someone who feels well, to find disease early. Distinct from testing someone who has symptoms, which is not optional.
from Women’s Health After Menopause

Screenshot

A photo of your own screen, taken by the device, so you can save or show exactly what you were looking at, a confirmation number, a confusing message.
from Technology Without Embarrassment

Sensitivity (of the nervous system)

how loudly the body's alarm system responds. It can be turned up by rest, fear, and poor sleep, so pain doesn't always match tissue damage.
from Move Better, Hurt Less

Shared decision making

Choosing between reasonable options based on your values as well as the evidence, rather than receiving an instruction.
from Women’s Health After Menopause

Shared decision-making

A conversation in which your clinician supplies the medical facts and trade-offs, you supply what matters to you, and the two of you decide together.
from Men’s Health After 60

Side effect

Anything a medicine does that isn't the effect you wanted. Ranges from trivial to serious. Always worth reporting, never worth acting on alone.
from Medicines Without Confusion

Sit-to-stand

the ordinary act of rising from a chair, one of the most important movements for independence, and a common thing a physical therapist helps people practice safely.
from Strong, Steady, and Independent

Sleep apnea

a disorder where breathing repeatedly pauses during sleep, often with loud snoring, gasping, and daytime sleepiness. A reason to see a doctor, not something to self-manage.
from Sleep Better After 60

Sleep apnea

A condition where breathing repeatedly pauses during sleep, often with heavy snoring and daytime exhaustion. Common, under-diagnosed, and treatable.
from Your First Healthy Year of Retirement

Sleep apnea

Repeated pauses in breathing during sleep caused by the airway closing. Common, treatable, and frequently missed for years.
from Men’s Health After 60

Sleep apnea

Repeated pauses in breathing during sleep. Under-diagnosed in women, more common after menopause, and can present as insomnia or fatigue rather than snoring.
from Women’s Health After Menopause

Sleep diary

a short daily record of your sleep, kept for a week or two, that shows your real patterns instead of your fearful guesses about them.
from Sleep Better After 60

Sleep pressure

the buildup of the drive to sleep the longer you're awake, like an appetite for sleep. Long or late naps discharge it, which is why they can steal from the night.
from Sleep Better After 60

Sliding scale

A fee that adjusts to your income, offered by many therapists and clinics. If cost is a barrier, ask about it directly.
from Strong Enough to Talk

Social rhythm

your own natural need for company versus solitude. Not right or wrong, just yours, and worth building your friendships to fit.
from Friendship After 60

Social worker

a professional who connects families to services, benefits, and support, often available through hospitals and area agencies on aging.
from The Caregiver’s Compass

Sodium

the part of salt that most affects blood pressure for many people. Most of it in a typical diet hides inside packaged and prepared foods, not in the shaker.
from A Calmer Number

Sole proprietor

The simplest business form, where you and the business are legally the same. Easy and cheap to run, but with little separation between the business and your personal money if something goes wrong. Whether it's right for you is a question for an advisor.
from Second-Act Business

Solitude vs. loneliness

solitude is chosen and can feel good; loneliness is the painful gap between the connection you have and the connection you want.
from The Next Chapter

Spacing (spaced repetition)

meeting material several times spread across days rather than all at once. It buys memory that lasts, where cramming does not.
from Never Too Late to Learn

Speech-language pathologist (speech and language therapist)

The specialist who assesses and helps with swallowing difficulties, among other things. Your doctor can refer you.
from Eat Enough to Stay Strong

Spoofing

faking the phone number, email address, or name that shows up, so a scammer's contact looks like it comes from someone real.
from Don’t Get Scammed

Standard drink

A specific, modest amount of alcohol used in all guidance, roughly the alcohol in a small glass of wine, a regular can of ordinary beer, or a single shot of spirits. Real-life pours are usually bigger, which is why what feels like "one" is often two.
from Rethinking Drinking After 60

Standing invitation

a get-together decided once and set to recur automatically, first Sundays, every Wednesday, so nobody has to organize it again. The most reliable engine of a full social life.
from Friendship After 60

Staying power food

the part of a meal that satisfies and holds you, beans, eggs, fish, meat, cheese, tofu, nuts. Everyday shorthand, not a technical term.
from The Two-Plate Kitchen

Step-grandparent

an older adult who becomes a grandparent figure through marriage or partnership rather than blood. A real role, built over time.
from Grandparenting with Love and Boundaries

Stimulus control

the idea of keeping the bed strongly associated with sleep by using it only for sleep, and getting up when you're awake and frustrated, so your brain learns bed means sleep.
from Sleep Better After 60

Strength

the capacity of your muscles to do work, lifting, rising, carrying, catching yourself. Built and kept through gentle, regular use.
from Strong, Steady, and Independent

Sudden infant death (safe sleep)

the reason babies are now placed on their backs to sleep, on a firm surface, without loose bedding. Current, evidence-based safety guidance, not a matter of opinion.
from Grandparenting with Love and Boundaries

Supplement (protein powder, shake, bar)

a manufactured product delivering concentrated protein. Occasionally useful for genuine need and with professional advice, but not necessary for most people and no substitute for food.
from Protein After 60

Support system

the people and resources you lean on, friends, groups, professionals, so you're not carrying family strain alone. The center of it is your own well-being, not an afterthought.
from Loving Them Without Losing Yourself

Systolic

the top number. The pressure at the moment your heart squeezes and pushes blood out. The higher of the two.
from A Calmer Number

T

Take-back program

A place that safely collects unused or expired medicines, often a kiosk at a pharmacy or a police station. Ask your pharmacist what's near you.
from Medicines Without Confusion

Testing (or a "smallest test")

Doing the cheapest possible thing to find out whether real people will actually pay, before you spend real money building. The core discipline of this whole book.
from Second-Act Business

The balanced plate

A simple guide: about half vegetables or fruit, a quarter protein, a quarter carbohydrate. A proportion, not a diet, needing no measuring.
from Prediabetes: Your Next Best Step

The cloud

Not a real cloud, just other people's distant computers where your backed-up things are safely stored and reached over the internet. "In the cloud" means "kept safely elsewhere, not only on your device."
from Technology Without Embarrassment

The container

the single setting that throws you together with an acquaintance, class, church, the dog park. "Breaking the container" means seeing them once outside it, which is how acquaintances become friends.
from Friendship After 60

The danger zone

the range of roughly room-temperature warmth where the bacteria that cause food poisoning grow fastest, which is why perishable food shouldn't sit out long. Check your local food-safety authority for the exact temperatures.
from The Two-Plate Kitchen

The floor

your small backbone of shelf-stable and freezer foods, chosen so you can always make a decent meal without shopping.
from The Two-Plate Kitchen

The liking gap

the well-studied tendency to underestimate how much other people enjoy hearing from us and want our company. The reason reaching out is almost always more welcome than you fear.
from Friendship After 60

Therapy (counseling)

Regular conversations with a trained professional whose job is to help you understand what you're feeling and decide what to do about it. Not analysis on a couch; closer to working with a good coach. You stay in charge throughout.
from Strong Enough to Talk

Titration and tapering

Gradually increasing or decreasing an amount over time, on a plan, rather than starting or stopping all at once. Some medicines genuinely require this, which is one of the reasons stopping on your own is unsafe.
from Medicines Without Confusion

Tolerance

When a body used to regular alcohol responds less to the same amount, so it takes more to feel the effect. Rising tolerance is one way drinking quietly grows, and it's also part of why stopping suddenly can be risky for heavy drinkers.
from Rethinking Drinking After 60

Transition

the in-between passage from one settled state to another. Retirement is one of the big ones, and it feels unsettled by nature.
from The Next Chapter

Traybake

a whole meal, protein plus vegetables plus something hearty, roasted together on one tray in the oven, so there's little standing and little washing up.
from The Two-Plate Kitchen

Trend

The direction your results move across several checks over time, which matters far more than any single result. What you and your doctor actually watch.
from Prediabetes: Your Next Best Step

Trust

A legal arrangement in which property is held and managed under specific terms, sometimes used to pass things to others outside of probate. Whether a trust suits you is a genuine attorney question; it's not necessary for everyone and it isn't only for the wealthy.
from Put Your Life in Order

Two-step (two-factor) verification

a second proof of identity when logging in, usually a code sent to your phone, so a stolen password alone can't get in.
from Don’t Get Scammed

Two-step verification

A security measure requiring a second proof of identity beyond your password. Good protection, and the reason recovery methods must be kept up to date.
from Put Your Life in Order

U

Undernutrition

Not getting enough nourishment for your body's needs, from eating too little, or too little of the right things, over time. It's what this book helps you prevent and turn around.
from Eat Enough to Stay Strong

Unintentional (or unintended) weight loss

Weight coming off without your trying to lose it. It's worth a doctor's attention whatever your starting size, because the unintended part is the signal.
from Eat Enough to Stay Strong

Update

A newer version of an app or the device's software, often fixing security holes, so installing updates is one of your quiet protections, not just a nuisance.
from Technology Without Embarrassment

W

Warmline

A phone line, staffed by trained listeners, for people who need to talk but aren't in crisis. Different from a crisis line; check your area for one.
from Strong Enough to Talk

Wire transfer

a fast, usually irreversible way to send money. Legitimate for some uses, dangerous when demanded by a stranger who contacted you.
from Don’t Get Scammed

Withdrawal

The set of symptoms that can appear when a body used to steady heavy drinking suddenly has none. Mild versions are unpleasant, serious versions, tremors, confusion, seizures, are a medical emergency. The reason heavy or daily drinkers should never stop abruptly alone.
from Rethinking Drinking After 60