I spent a couple hours on the exhibition floor of the LeadingAge 2011 conference interviewing vendors and leaders in long-term care about the growing influence of the culture change movement in the aging services industry. One of those leaders — Doug Pace, executive director of the Long-Term Quality Alliance — summed it up best: culture […]
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If you work in the non-profit sector of the long-term care industry you know the biggest conference of the year kicked-off today in Washington, D.C. at theLeadingAge 2011 “Celebrate Age” annual meeting. The conference attracts nearly 9,000 attendees ranging from aging services professionals to industry vendors and public sector officials. The first day of the […]
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International anti-aging crusader Aubrey de Grey, who hopes to “cure aging” within our lifetime, spoke in Baltimore this week and even took time to share a few beers with the locals, including yours truly.
I’d like to think of ChangingAging.org as the preeminent pro-aging blog so it was a great opportunity to talk to the world’s leading anti-aging advocate. And surprisingly I came away with the impression that although our rhetoric is wildly divergent – as divergent as anti- vs pro-aging rhetoric can be — we share similar goals.
Continue ReadingWell it has been a pretty good week all told. I started out by flying to Omaha where I met up with Trinity Health’s Sue Penoza, we drove north to Sioux City, Iowa, stopping for lunch in Blair, Neb., at a really nice down home Mexican restaurant on main street.
Once in Sioux Falls, I did a TV interview about the Senior ER innovation and a couple of days later Eden legend Nickie Bigley sent me a note telling me that she saw the clip on her local TV station.
Continue ReadingI just came across a great editorial from one of my former colleagues at UMBC — Leslie Morgan, co-director of the Gerontology PhD program and a sociologist and leading expert on eldercare services. Check it out:
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Europe and the United States have much to share and learn from each other when it comes to caring for and improving the quality of life for our rapidly growing aging populations. Eden Alternative International has long been a bridge connecting culture change advocates around the globe and next week we’re honored to host a delegation of aging services providers from Europe traveling to Washington, D.C. and Baltimore to participate in a study tour exploring the Eden Alternative.
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I’m going to be covering the 2011 LeadingAge annual meeting and global conference next week for ChangingAging.org and I’m looking forward to shooting some videos, catching up with our friends in the culture change community and hopefully meeting some new ones.
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The fountain of youth. The holy grail. The philosopher’s stone. The strategies for engineered negligible senescence (SENS). Uh, say what? Made up by noted anti-aging guru Aubrey de Grey, SENS purports to outline a “possibly comprehensive plan” (de Grey’s words) to cure, or at least dramatically slow down, human aging. De Grey is perhaps the […]
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