Martin Bayne: I Can’t Afford To Slide Back
It’s 11:00 PM and I write these words on my iPad while sitting in my bed at the Phoebe Ministries nursing home/rehab complex in Allentown, Penn.
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Lets Do Something About Ambient Despair
Here’s an idea for every residential aging facility that struggles with ambient despair that masks itself as “activity indifference” (the resident spends her entire day in her room or a chair in the main lobby avoiding activities and other residents).
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The Nine Principles of Dynamic Kindness
I learned that of all the techniques, healing systems, protocols, clinical trials, methodologies, and treatment plans, what works most reliably, most consistently, with the greatest rate of success is simple kindness.
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Study: Bill Thomas is Aging
Is it possible to grow old – with chronic disease, loneliness, isolation, – and still be happy? Well, is it?
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A Great White Whine
I recently had a conversation here about an idea that would simultaneously improve the quality of life for residents while saving the lives of rescue animals.
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Ten Things You Need To Know About Assisted Living
Martin Bayne has spent the last ten years as an assisted living facility resident and shares the top 10 things to know before moving in.
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Tenure
Next week marks my 3,652 day as an assisted living resident – my ten-year anniversary as a member of America’s Institutional Aging Community.
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DEATH SPIRAL
When the plane had climbed to 13,500 feet, I checked the wind one final time and nodded to the pilot. Then, with the usual mixture of terror and exhilaration, I slowly pushed off the wing mount and into the stuff of dreams. Within ten seconds my body had reached terminal velocity, the speed […]
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