ChangingAging with Dr. Bill Thomas
 | Hot Koko: Wayfaring By Dr. Bill Thomas Before my TEDx “Elderhood Rising” talk (if you didn’t make it to San Francisco to see it live, you can watch the video HERE) I promised to take ChangingAging readers through the new CD that Jude and just finished. Each Tuesday for the next 12 weeks I will be posting a song from the CD along with commentary about the song and the process we used to arrange the tune for our voices and instruments. Click here for the first preview from Wayfaring. |
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 | Hey Let’s Age By Dr. Bill Thomas Yummy! I got a real live anti-ager to react to the idea that one day follows another. Kevin Perrott is the CEO of AgeNet, an organization that aspires to conquering normal human aging. He sounds like a really nice guy, passionate about living but in denial of aging. Want to know what I think? |
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 | An Antidote to Ageism By Dr. Bill Thomas I seem to be running into quite a few anti-agers who are not, to put it mildly, on board with my ideas about valuing age and aging. I was thinking about how to respond to their point of view when I came across this incredible snapshot of one incredibly tiny slice of our universe and it occurred to me that on this scale the entire history of humanity represents a tiny blip. And our lifespan? An infinitesimally small flicker. To me, the key is not to make our flicker of life last a teensy bit longer — the key is to make it burn brighter. What do you think? |
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 | Getting Connected By Dr. Bill Thomas Large media outlets are, unfortunately, like large long-term care institutions. They prosper by standardizing their product and that standardization is lethal to voices and viewpoints outside of the accepted bounds of discourse. This is why the magazine racks are stuffed with publications that cater to America’s bias against aging. The good news is that those of us who share a pro-aging bias, those of us who believe in a newer, better, happier and more fulfilling Elderhood live in a time when fantastic new communication tools are available to us. Like this. |
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Updates from the ChangingAging Blogstream
 | Growing The Green House Project With Social Media By The Green House Project Blog This week Green House Project founder Dr. Bill Thomas and ChangingAging Blogstream editor Kavan Peterson delivered a fantastic webinar to Green House Project adopters on the power of social media to drive culture change. The Green House Project is proud to embrace social media tools to help our diverse community of Green House adopter organizations connect and share best practices. You can join the movement too — click here to learn how. |
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 | New Book on Creativity and Dementia By Dr. Al Power A new book, Creative Approaches in Dementia Care, has been released by Palgrave Macmillan. Edited by Hilary Lee (President of Dementia Care Australia) and Trevor Adams (University of Surrey, U.K.), this book contains a dozen chapters describing the use of art, music, laughter, storytelling, end-of-life engagement and several other avenues to enhance the well-being of people living with dementia. I was honored to be asked to write the foreword for this book and with Hilary’s permission, I am sharing it with you here on my blog. Let me know what you think. |
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| Eden Alternative Member in Wyoming Receives Governor’s Award By Eden Alternative St. John’s Living Center in Jackson, Wyo., was honored this week at the Governor’s Summit on Workforce Solutions with the Innovation in the Workplace Award for its transformation through practicing the Eden Alternative philosophy. St. John’s Living Center is Wyoming’s first Eden registered home. Please join us in congratulating St. John’s for this great honor by sharing a comment on our blog. |
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| | Green House Project Job Opportunities in California By The Green House Project Blog Please share this exciting nursing employment opportunity to join an organization building the first Green House Project homes in the California. Mt. San Antonio Gardens in Pomona, Calif., has an opening for a new director of nursing and they are seeking a registered nurse with a strong passion for leading culture change in their organization. Click here to learn more and apply. |
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 | Check Out The Newest Blogstream Blogs Click here to see the newest blog submissions to the ChangingAging Blogstream. We continue to attract passionate bloggers and pro-aging advocates, as well as a few entrepreneurs looking to grow there business through social media. For-profit or for fun, if you’re interested changing aging we invite you to submit your blog to the ChangingAging Blogstream. |
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