Weekly Blog Roundup
 | Welcome to the New ChangingAging Blogstream This is it folks! Last weekend we transitioned to the new ChangingAging Blogstream website. What does that mean? |
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 | Check Out Who’s On the ChangingAging Blogstream So who is the Blogstream for? The short answer is everyone. We invite anyone with a pro-aging vision and a passion for changing aging to either sign-up for a ChangingAging Blog or submit their existing blog feed to the Blogstream. This includes bloggers and readers interested in: Aging, Elderhood, Eldercare, Baby Boomers, Culture Change, Alzheimer’s Disease, Dementia, the Long-Term Care industry and Health Care, to name a few. Check out who’s already on the Blogstream here. |
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 | Abolishing The Old Age Asylum: Part 1 Plenty of people accept the status quo of long-term care as it is. They are willing to change the industry’s surface features but want to retain its most basic assumptions. There is one very big problem with that point of view. The foundation of contemporary long-term care is based on immoral and deeply flawed assumptions. Here is why: |
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 | The Death of a Villain The media are full of coverage of the aftermath of the death of bin Laden. While there are plenty of individual differences, the public’s reaction to this news does seem to have an age-related dimension. Young people seem more jubilant, celebratory and even visceral in their response, especially when compared to the reaction of older people. Part of this has to do with being young, but there are other factors at play. |
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 | Who Benefits? Social insurance programs help people live more comfortably because they spread risk across the entire population of a nation. They make people and nations more safe and secure. Here’s how. |
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 | Minding the Generational Gap How big is the gap between generations? The winning film from the Assisted Living Federation of America’s International Short Film contest poignantly captures how much we have to gain if we can just bridge that gap. Watch here. |
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 | Another Cup of Hot Koko The funny thing about music is that one note follows another. That note might go up, it might go down, it might stay the same but basically— one note after another. Simple things are, I think, the most difficult to master. My friends in the culture change movement can already see where I am going with this. |
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