Long-term care residents living with dementia labeled as “aggressive” when they engage in distressing and harmful “resident-to-resident incidents” are in reality expressing real human needs and frustrations that are not being met by understaffed, undertrained, and inadequately supervised direct care staff members.
Continue Reading
Nate sits down with one of his musical superhero friends for a deep exploration of musical process and personal meaning. They are good friends so they skip the basics and start by taking apart some of Joe’s songs.
Continue Reading
The feeling of loneliness and isolation people are facing is not simply due to aging—it’s due to our society’s lack of value for older adults. There is a cultural shift that we need to start working toward.
Continue Reading
Readers can now read and comment on the popular ChangingAging Weekly Blog Roundup online at ChangingAging.org, featuring top stories from Dr. Bill Thomas and our Blogstream contributors. Click here to leave your comments on the latest edition of the Blogstream Roundup.
Continue Reading
Nate is joined by Ithaca songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Tenzin Chopak. Nate and Tenzin discuss the process of songwriting on a personal level. Sit back and learn about the visceral reaction that comes from listening to music and taking in lyrics.
Continue Reading[Editor’s Note: Dr. Thomas has invited Eden Alternative’s Europe Coordinator Christa Monkhouse to guest-post on a weekly basis from across the Big Pond. Christa is personally responsible for introducing the Eden Alternative to Europe, first in the UK, then Denmark and soon in Sweden, Finland and other European nations. Stay-tuned for regular updates on ‘Monkhouse […]
Continue Reading
To celebrate, Bill is holding a live, virtual book launch party that everyone can attend online at the Tribes of Eden website. It will take place tomorrow, Wednesday 4 April, beginning at 3PM eastern U.S. time so mark your computer calendar.
Bill’s book is a terrific read that can be enjoyed simply for the sake of a good story. But there is more to it than that. To help get the book off to a great start, Bill has provided three copies of Tribes of Eden for me to give away to Time Goes By readers.
Continue Reading
The full text of Eilon Caspi’s recent journal article “Trust at stake: Is the “dual mission” of the U.S. Alzheimer’s Association out of balance?” is now available for free thanks to an anonymous donor seeking to raise awareness of the gross imbalance of effort and funding between the Association’s dual mission of seeking cure and best care.
Continue Reading
#ChangingAging - Explore what's next!