Changing Aging: Most Recent Articles
Baby Boom to Aging Boom: MinnPost 4-Part Series
MinnPost kicked off the week with a 4-part series entitled "Baby Boom to Aging Boom." You can access the series written by Kay Harvey here. What an opportunity for innovation in Minnesota and beyond.
Welcoming the Newest Member of Ecumen’s Changing Aging Centenarian Club From Detroit Lakes
Congratulations to Oma Grove, above, who lives at Ecumen Emmanuel Community in Detroit Lakes, Minn! She became the newest member of Ecumen’s Changing Aging Centenarian Club. Oma celebrated her 100th birthday last week.
Oma grew up in a farming f…
86-year-old German Gymnast Johanna Quaas Outpaces Much of the World
This is pretty incredible. Check out the floor routine Johanna Quass, 86, peformed at the recent Cottbus World Cup in Germany:
A Tax Increase to Pay for Senior Services in Minnesota?
Read today’s Changing Aging Post at the Minneapolis Star Tribune on paying for the future of senior services in Minnesota. You can see new poll results from The Long-Term Care Imperative – a partnership of Aging Services of Minnesota and Care Providers…
Picture Your Future Self at University of Saint Andrews Website
Would you save more if you knew what you would look like when you’re older? Try the "Face of the Future" web site from the University of Saint Andrews in the U.K. (you can also make a picture of yourself younger at the site)
Robert Powe…
Jim Klobuchar – Adrift in the Facebook Follies
On my doorstep the other day, on the front page of my favorite Minneapolis daily newspaper, was a story about a spreading high tech menace called “sleep texting.”
It told of thousands of people, mostly young folks of high school and college age, unwittingly expanding their adventures in the miracles of hand held devices by subconsciously writing text messages while they’re still half asleep.It told of thousands of people, mostly young folks of high school and colle…
Meet Ecumen Customers Bud & Mae from Ecumen Oaks & Pines in Hutchinson
Neither Bud nor Mae ever seem to stop smiling.
It is a blustery February afternoon in Hutchinson and I am enjoying the couple’s company in their cozy apartment at Ecumen Oaks & Pines. They settled in here just over a year ago, in December…
Innovation in Senior Living – What If?
“What if?”
It’s a key part of Michelle Holleran’s article for LeadingAge entitled “Innovation in Senior Living,” which has insights for transformation in the world of aging services and beyond. It also includes this excerpt from a recent innovation summit in Colorado, which Ecumen CEO Kathryn Roberts attended and describes:
Playground fun for everyone
At a Manchester, United Kingdom park, seniors can use low impact exercise equipment built just for them. In Japan, with birthrates falling and the numbers of older citizens increasing, underused playgrounds are being renovated for senio…
Hill-Murray High School Honors Ecumen Lakeview Commons Resident Honor Hacker
Ecumen Lakeview Commons resident Honor Hacker (pictured above during an interview on Capitol Hill discussing new technology) remembers the day she slumped over the desk in her classroom of Hill-Murray, a Benedictine prep school in Saint Paul, closed …
"Awakenings" Featured on Canadian TV News
Ecumen is empowering residents and their families to enjoy the highest possible quality of life through our Awakenings initiative. "400 kilometers south of the Canadian border there is a sea change underway," says 16:9 reporter Carolyn…
Ecumen Bethany Community Receives Major Gift: $340,000
In an honoring testament to Ecumen Bethany Community’s culture of caring, former residents Leonard and Irene Kalina included Bethany in their estate plans — to the tune of $340,000! The Kalinas lived together at Ecumen Bethany Home since 2006, until…
Senior Housing – A Part of "Aging With No Regrets" for Many
In an earlier blog post, we highlighted a new book – 30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans, authored by Karl Pillemer, the head of Cornell University’s Legacy Project, I found this item below interesting from N.Y. Times…
Ecumen Salutes Medal of Honor Recipient Mike Colalillo
Mike Colalillo, pictured above, received the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military honor for bravery, from President Harry Truman on Dec. 18, 1945. On Friday, Minnesota’s last surviving Medal of Honor recipient Mike Colalillo passed away…
Top 10 Lessons for Living from America’s Most Experienced and Wisest Citizens
Karl Pillemer, Ph.D., is a gerontologist and professor of human development at Cornell University. He’s author of "30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans." Over the past six years, as part Cornell…
Jim Klobuchar – Our Last Mountain
He sat in his wheel chair, my old Swiss climbing guide, grumbling in a predictable show of annoyance as his wife eased him into their apartment on the fourth floor of a home for the aging. They live in the village of Zermatt beneath the Matterhorn, …
Creating a New Way to Pay for Senior Services in Minnesota
Yesterday’s Minneapolis Star Tribune featured a discussion with editorial columnist Lori Sturdevant on the future of long-term care financing. Participants included former U.S. Senator Dave Durenberger; LaRhae Knatterud, director of aging transfo…
Building the Future of Senior Living in North Branch – Clayton Anderson’s Legacy
Ecumen lost a feisty friend and benefactor when Clayton Anderson died last Friday. Clayton was 101. He served the North Branch area his entire life with his energy and personal resources, making North Branch a better place to live.
When he donated the…
CNN PHOTOS: "Remembered: The Alzheimer’s Project"
Photographer Gregg Segal created "Remembered: The Alzheimer’s Project," as a way to honor those living with Alzheimer’s. The photos contain projected images from the subject’s younger years, illustrating how we often forget who those with Alz…
Thank you! Together, We’re Changing Aging.
Your voices were heard – on Give to the Max Day, we raised more than $5,000 in support of Ecumen and Awakenings!
A special congratulations and thank you to Kori Williams, the Ecumen donor who won a Golden Ticket of $1,000 towards Awakenings.
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