Connected Horse
Connected Horse Project is a groundbreaking pilot study exploring how guided engagement with horses might help people living with dementia as well as those providing care for them.
Continue ReadingConnected Horse Project is a groundbreaking pilot study exploring how guided engagement with horses might help people living with dementia as well as those providing care for them.
Continue ReadingIn a time when politicians and deficit hawks are advocating raising the eligibility age for Medicare, we should actually be pressing to do the exact opposite.
Continue ReadingBelow is a list of ChangingAging’s regular blog contributors. Martin Bayne Journalist, Buddhist monk, MIT graduate, and founder of the blog The Voice of Aging Boomers, Martin Bayne has had a colorful career. At the age of nineteen, while working at the Times Herald Record, he was contacted by the mother of a soldier serving in […]
Continue ReadingListen now! NPR podcast featuring Dr. Bill Thomas, Dr. Karl Pillemer and Martha Stettinius discussing how communities, families and individuals can do a better job planning for the aging process and the needs of our growing elder population.
Continue ReadingWow. We’ve gotten a lot of email responding to Dr. Bill’s video post debunking internet conspiracies about euthanizing older adults. It’s been overwhelming positive and constructive feedback. But I’m amused to find that a few folks out there truly seem immune to reason. One anonymous emailer went so far as to accuse Bill of lying […]
Continue ReadingBuoyed by astonishingly low expectations and a reimbursement system that literally pays them for making their patients sicker and weaker, nursing homes represent the one part of our health care system that has seen little substantive change in more than a half a century.
Continue ReadingThe latest edition of Richard Taylor’s newsletter Alzheimer’s From the Inside Out was published today. If you want a deeper understanding of dementia, and the people who live with it, I highly recommend you become a subscriber by clicking here.
Here’s what Richard has to say about the latest research results to find a cure for Alzheimer’s:
Continue ReadingChangingAging.org Top StoriesΒ Dec. 16 to Dec. 23 Health Policy Deadly Medicine This is not going to end well for any of us. Although older people have long been accustomed to the fact that no substantial testing on older people is done prior to the FDAβs approval of a new drug, the offshoring of all pre-approval […]
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