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Rethinking Life Reimagined

October 30, 2014 | Kavan Peterson, Editor, ChangingAging.org

Today, Dr. Bill Thomas called me up and asked me a relatively straightforward question: do I think AARP’s Life Reimagined is having an impact on the lives of ChangingAging’s audience?

Power of Story Telling

October 28, 2014 | Martin Bayne, ChangingAging Contributor

In 1999 Dr. Bill Thomas and I were invited by Chief Oren Lyons to visit The People of the Six Nations, also known by the French term, Iroquois Confederacy.

Can life in a nursing home be made uplifting and purposeful?

October 20, 2014 | Atul Gawande, special to ChangingAging

One young doctor in upstate New York thought so and he came up with a highly eccentric way of demonstrating it. In this extract from his book Being Mortal, Atul Gawande tells the story of Bill Thomas and his miraculous menagerie.

Senior Center Without Walls

October 9, 2014 | David Goff, ChangingAging Contributor

Tune-in to Growing an Elder Culture radio program today at 2 p.m. PST for a conversation with Senior Center Without Walls director Krista Brown.

A Bountiful Dilemma

October 8, 2014 | Jeanette Leardi, ChangingAging Contributor

Whether we know it or not, all of us cultivate gardens. The things we choose to grow and the ways in which we care for them define our lives and who we are.

Why Everyone is Talking About Death - ChangingAging

Staying One Step Ahead of the Mortician

October 7, 2014 | Martin Bayne, ChangingAging Contributor

After twelve years living with Parkinson’s in an Assisted Living facility, I’d like to report that going toe-to-toe with death has become just another fact of life. But it hasn’t. In fact, the older I get (now 64), the more I dig in with all the tenacity I can muster to stave off what I know is natural and inevitable.