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AARP is going to have its hands full over the next month or so.
The organization’s decision to endorse the legislation moving through Congress will infuriate opponents of reform.
In truth, AARP is a soft target, it has a vast and diverse membership base and a slow, plodding style of institutional decision-making. Even so, [...]

The always insightful Dorothea Johnson reviews Al Power’s new book…
I’ll add my comment to the bottom of the post.
Dear Dr. Power,
Your book is truly superb – it covers a lot of ground by incorporating best practices from the most relevant literature out there along with your incredibly deep and thoughtful insight. Your story telling and [...]

Everybody’s got problems.
Even the Finn’s.
This is a nice mashup of complaints about daily life and choral music.

The navel gazing continues…
MIDDLE BOOMERS: A SEPARATE DEMOGRAPHIC GROUP; NEW METLIFE STUDY EXAMINES DIFFERENCES AMONG THE BABY BOOMERS
For decades, American Baby Boomers have been characterized as a bloc of people who think and act as one monolithic generation. However, recent data from the MetLife Mature Market Institute, show that Young, Middle and Older Boomers grew [...]

All right loyal Changingaging readers, you’ve been slogging through posts on municipal water systems, universal design and ageism in Australia. Today, I make a peace offering.
Tomorrow— telomere shortening!*
* Just kidding

Every once in a while, someone sends me something so cool that I can not resist sharing it.
This is one of those times.
“50 to Death” is a web-based “television” series that explores the lives of three 50 plus Manhattan-ites who are doing their best to deal with what life is bringing their way.
Complications ensue.
I love [...]

It’s things like this that remind me how poorly a society function when no voices are raised on behalf of those who will follow us onto this earth.
Forget the seventh generation, how about the second generation?
The distortion of the human lifecycle– the massive adult fixation on the here and now– plays out in thousands of [...]

The educational push by builders, architects and designers is to remove the “old” association from universal design, or UD.

I have a thing for spontaneity and “Hey Jude”
This clip show some buskers playing for a large crowd in the Times Square subway station.
At first, the singing seems pretty kind of muddy and indistinct, keep watching.
The audience really finds its voice.
Beautiful.

Hey Jude Times Square Subway Station from 39forks on Vimeo.

A collaboration between Nazareth College and St. John’s in Rochester has just won the Sigma Phi Omega Service Project Award for innovation in undergraduate education.
David Steitz, PhD, teaches an upper level psychology course called “Issues in Aging”. On most campuses this would simply be a class of young adults, taught by a middle-aged [...]