On Monday at The Elder Storytelling Place, our friend William Weatherstone entertained us with a 17-year-old column from newspaper editor, Colin McKim, about “losing it” as we get older. A sample line or two: ”These days I find I can’t…
Continue ReadingLast night about 20 minutes into watching The Iron Lady interact with her dead husband, I leaned over to my husband and exclaimed, “Now I really understand what it was like was for your mother — she saw those things.” This movie is ab…
Continue ReadingOn August 10, 2011, The Journal of Neuroscience carried a story with this headline: “Little Exercise, Big Effects: Reversing Aging and Infection-Induced Memory Deficits, and Underlying Processes.”
A University Of Colorado-Boulder study reported th…
Continue ReadingDoes musical training have any effect on the aging brain? Scientists at the University of Kansas Medical Center asked this question. They wondered whether the experience of learning and practicing an instrument and the resulting sensorimotor and cognit…
Continue ReadingI recently took Terry Gross to task for doing a show on aging dogs while overlooking, in my opinion, older people. So to be fair, I’m blogging a rave review of her show yesterday that explored some really provocative questions about Dementia. Let me pose a hypothetical question before I explain the details of the […]
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