ChangingAging Blogstream Weekly Roundup

Dr. Bill Thomas on TEDxSF Alive! — It’s A Design Problem

By Dr. Bill Thomas

I’m excited and honored to be invited to give a TED talk at the TEDxSF: Alive! Maximum Living as a Human in San Francisco June 4th. TED stands for “technology, entertainment and design” and my remarks will center on — design. The time poverty, hurry sickness and worship of efficiency that virtually defines contemporary life are not, as we commonly suppose, the consequence of our advancing technology. Instead, the problem lies in the design of the human lifecycle.

TEDxSF Alive! Living a Life Out of Balance

By Dr. Bill Thomas

I’m preparing my TED talk and I need your feedback. A concept I want to open with comes from a word in the Navajo language that English doesn’t have but needs: Koyaanisqatsi. It means ‘life out of balance’ or ‘a state of life that calls for another way of living.’ I want to explore the imbalance caused by our obsession with adulthood. What do you think are the consequences of this imbalance?

Long-Term Living Names Green House Project One of its Top 10 Movements in Long-Term Care

By The Green House Project Blog

This May, The Green House Project was named by Long-Term Living magazine as one of its “top 10 innovations in Long Term Care.” In fact, it took the #1 spot. Richard L. Peck, contributing editor  to the publication (and formerly its editor-in-chief) described the initiative as “Dr. William Thomas’ second act.”

Building Your Social Network: Join, Follow, Share

By Kavan Peterson

As the ChangingAging Blogstream grows we plan to use the latest social networking tools to connect with our new members and to help them grow and engage with their audiences.

Our first priority of course is blogging — if you have something to say either sign up for a free ChangingAging blog or submit your existing blog to the ChangingAging Blogstream.

Second, we help Blogstream members get their stories and messages across to a bigger audience.

What Is Our Current Box?

By Dr. Al Power

I’ve been thinking a lot about a comment I received last week. I was speaking at a grant funders’ luncheon about the Green House model. I had mentioned at the outset that long-term care costs were untenable, but so were the costs of aging in place, each to his or her own home. After presenting the Green House model, one of the funders (astute fellows, they) asked me about the operating costs.

The Tribes of Eden

By Dr. Bill Thomas

Folks who know me pretty well are aware that I have been working on a new novel for a while. It is now complete and I’m privileged to have the world’s best literary agent — Lane Zachary of Zachary, Schuster and Harmsworth — lining up publishers to bid on the manuscript. Here is the first paragraph of my upcoming novel – Tribes of Eden — as read by me and recorded by Kavan.

Pioneer Network Names New Executive Director

By The Eden Alternative Blog

The Eden Alternative offers congratulations to the Pioneer Network in appointing Dr. Peter Reed as their new executive director. Reed, who most recently served as President and Chief Executive Officer for the Center for Health Improvement, takes over from former Executive Director Bonnie Kantor, the newly-appointed director of the Ohio Department of Aging.

Let’s Hear It From You – What’s the Best Decade?

By AboutBeingOld.com

To followup on this Monday’s decades post, I’m interested, What do YOU think the best decade in life is? Any of your comments are welcome as we will be traveling through each decade in the coming months!

Fifty Facts About Older Adults

By EngagedAging.org

May is Older Americans Month and, in honor of the occasion, the Masters in Health Care blog featured a terrific list of “Fifty Fascinating Aging Facts.” Are you surprised to learn that your brain never stops growing? Or that drivers over sixty-five have fewer accidents than younger drivers? Click here to check out the entire list and learn more. Links are included to posts that explain each item in detail.

Open Letter To My Daughter on Turning 30

By AgeMyths.com

Dear A.,
I’ve been thinking about you a lot lately because last month was your birthday. Not just another birthday, but a milestone birthday—you turned 30.