Posts Tagged ‘Aging In Place’

    "Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."  — Albert von Szent-Gyorgy Louis Tenenbaum is the father of the aging in place movement in this country; when he speaks/writes, I for one, pay attention. Here is a guest post by Louis on being inspired in Beantown. Within these words is some gem lying in waiting; enjoy.    I am an innovation immigrant.  I don’t often feel inspired. But I am inspired by the incredible third annual Aging Means Business Conference held Friday in Boston associated with the Gerontological Society of America annual meeting. 

    You can't hide your true colors as you approach the autumn of your life. - Author Unknown   The Fall is coming The soft-late-summer-sun streamed through the cracked door the other morning; illuminating a dark corner of the gym. Along with the weakened glow, the first sign of fall blew in as crumpled golden and red leaves, intruding and dispersing haphazardly amongst the dumbbells. This reminded me of the pending change of season just off shore. In an attempt to hold off the inevitable (fall) I closed the door. This served only to

  Then it don't matter. I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad. I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready, and when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise and livin' in the houses they build - I'll be there, too. --Tom Joad Character in The

    I often hear people say that a person suffering from Alzheimer's is not the person they knew. I wonder to myself - Who are they then? --Bob DeMarco   The Present-absence and the long-good-bye of Alzheimer’s disease is heart-breaking. I sat with my once brilliant friend, Frances Gabe, holding her hand and longing for the excursions into the deep end of ideas that we once shared. But that is in the past; to quote Chuck Heston quoting Shakespeare in his statement, they bade farewell

  Design is intelligence made visible. - Alina Wheeler   Each year I attend the ASA conference on Aging and reoccurring themes begin to emerge and persist throughout the week; this session remained true to form. One mantra I picked up early; “Design is for all.” Design on the Brain Each of us has a brain equipped with a tightly bundled grouping of nerve cells about the size of an apple wedge located from the top of the spinal cord into the middle of the brain. This part of our brain contains about 70% of its estimated 200 billion nerve