• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
ChangingAging Logo
  • About
  • Browse Posts
    • Ageism
    • Aging Literacy
    • Community
    • Culture Change
    • Disrupting Dementia
    • Embracing Elderhood
  • Store
  • Contact
    • Booking Information
  • Ageism
  • Aging Literacy
  • Community
  • COVID Resources
  • Culture Change
  • Disrupting Dementia
  • Embracing Elderhood
  • Health and Wellness

Martin Bayne, ChangingAging Contributor

Betting Against Your Health - ChangingAging

Betting Against Your Health

August 10, 2016 | Martin Bayne, ChangingAging Contributor

Too few people understand that Medicare does not include benefits covering the cost of long term care and as a result wait too long before buying LTC insurance.

Continue Reading
Soto Zen, H. Pylori and The Age of Disruption - ChangingAging 1

Mad as Hell Part 3: Death Chant

January 19, 2016 | Martin Bayne, ChangingAging Contributor

From an Oxycontin haze, I hear the death chant from a 90-something neighbor, three doors down the hall. The screams pierce every bone in my body and continues for hours.

Continue Reading
How Will The Villages Age With Their Members?

Update: Mad as Hell Part 2

January 15, 2016 | Martin Bayne, ChangingAging Contributor

After 14 years fighting to maintain some shred of autonomy and home in assisted living facilities in New York and Pennsylvania, Martin Bayne is being evicted from his current assisted living. His next stop will be an “indeterminate stay” at a short-term rehab facility in a local CCRC.

Continue Reading
I'm Mad as Hell and I'm Not Going to Take it Anymore - ChangingAging

I’m Mad as Hell and I’m Not Going to Take it Anymore

January 13, 2016 | Martin Bayne, ChangingAging Contributor

After 14 years fighting to maintain some shred of autonomy and home in assisted living facilities in New York and Pennsylvania, Martin Bayne is being evicted from his current home tomorrow with no alternative arrangement yet determined.

Continue Reading

World Mind — Elder Warrior

January 7, 2016 | Martin Bayne, ChangingAging Contributor

We are told by a prominent and highly-respected geriatrician that the three plagues of growing old are loneliness, helplessness and boredom. I respectfully disagree.

Continue Reading

The Eagle Has Landed

August 21, 2015 | Martin Bayne, ChangingAging Contributor

Last night I scripted a new chapter in my Book of Life – waiting 13 years as a resident in Assisted Living for the opportunity to share what I had learned 40 years ago in a Buddhist monastery.

Continue Reading

The Real Deal

July 28, 2015 | Martin Bayne, ChangingAging Contributor

I was interviewed last week by Richard Garcia, a freelance journalist, for a feature story in the Christian Science Monitor.

Continue Reading

Why Baby Boomers Will Never Live in Nursing Homes

June 29, 2015 | Martin Bayne, ChangingAging Contributor

On February 4, 1974, the night Patty Hearst was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, I was a 23-year-old Soto Zen Buddhist monastic novitiate, studying under the auspices of Reverend Master Jiyu Kennett, Roshi of Shasta Abbey, Mt. Shasta, California.

Continue Reading
  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to page 3
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 6
  • Go to Next Page »
browse all posts
Or search for a post here:

ChangingAging Newsletter

Join 30,636 subscribers and stay updated on all things ChangingAging

No charge. No Spam. Unsubscribe anytime.

ChangingAging - Speech Bubble Logo

#ChangingAging - Explore what's next!

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram

© 2023 ChangingAging™ - The Center for Growing and Becoming

  • Post Guidelines
  • Contact