Join us live at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 20, (Live broadcasts subject to change — stay tuned) when Dr. Bill Thomas will interview the co-author of a recent study examining the effectiveness of patient-centered approaches to Dementia care for older adults on RealCareNowTV at PickerReport.org. The study by David Edvardsson, PhD, of the University of […]
Continue ReadingListening to Fresh Air‘s report on ‘elder-dog-care’ yesterday gave me a sharp reminder of why I helped Dr. Bill Thomas launch ChangingAging.org more than three years ago. I was handling Bill’s media relations and we were frustrated by the mass medias’ single-minded war against aging. Culturally, our society is obsessed with all things young and […]
Continue ReadingEquipped only with inexpensive HD Flip Camcorders, a few intrepid staffers for the Green House® Project support team fanned out during their recent 2010 Annual Conference and Celebration to capture some thoughts and stories from the Shahbaz, Guides and other attendees from the Green House® movement. Here are a few compilations I pulled together from […]
Continue ReadingDid you miss Dr. Bill Thomas’ keynote speech streamed live from the Green House Project annual conference? Don’t worry, you can replay it below! Stay tuned for special live-streamed panels featuring elders and shahbazim viewable at The Green House Project blog: September 29th @ 4:15-5:15p EDT Elders Rule! Panel of Elders Talk about a Life […]
Continue ReadingOn the Facebook, Patricia G. Kallsen writes… Videos are fine; please share a few quotes from your talk on “senior ED”–a new concept for some of us. thanks This is a fun challenge to boil things down. 1) Typical emergency departments are optimized for the acute care of ill and injured adults and children. People […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a must-read piece from NPR detailing the explosive growth of social networking among 50 and older adults. Full-disclosure, I used to work with both the report’s author, Mary Madden, a great researcher at the Pew Research Center, and the NPR reporter, Joshua Brockman, who wrote the story. But I came across this piece randomly […]
Continue ReadingElders and the very young have long been allies. In fact, there is an old joke that goes, “Why do grandparent and grandkids get along so well? They share a common enemy.” Life in a modern, post industrial, economy frays these ancient bonds. Let’s look at a blogospheric exchange. At Pandagon blogger Amanda Marcotte writes…. […]
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