Posts Tagged ‘aging well’

  “A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.” -H. Stanley Judd Aging in Place Case Study: Guest Post (At a meeting last month, the members of NAIPC/Baltimore decided to do a case study that would demonstrate how members could provide various needed services to a potential client.  Conducted via email, the study shows the process as well as the value of an NAIPC chapter. The Baltimore members have graciously given National permission to share the case study with all of you. What follows

     As we grow old, the beauty steals inward. – Ralph Waldo Emerson I recently had the pleasure of experiencing a Historical and Architectural cruise of Chicago with my wife and in-laws. The promotional quote notes: “If you have only two hours in Chicago this is how to spend it.” After the tour I can’t disagree; from start to finish it was a delight.   Adaptive ReUse Pushing off from the North Pier Docks at River East Art Center, our enchanting tour guide (part professor/part stand up comedian) began with a discourse on “adaptive reuse” of the

  The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, lets in new light through chinks that time hath made. ~Edmund Waller I recently attended a presentation by HR Moody to the Oregon Gerontological Association on Shaping the Future of Gerontology: Education, Inquiry, and Practice. Dr. Moody portrayed two possible scenarios for the future of aging: The first was dismal, focused on disease and decline—the second, hopeful emphasizing human potential and growth. His role play was humorous; yet tempered with the burden of insight. No one today speaks to this dichotomy of aging with a clearer voice than HR Moody. His treatment of Erickson’s 8th and final

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. -Sophia Loren   In our culture “successful aging” really means no aging at all; which at its deepest-root is the denial of death. Rowe & Kahn wrote an accessible book about the topic based on the MacArthur Foundation Study, with the same title (Successful Aging, 1998). The authors defined successful aging as having

  Does age poison us, or do we poison age? -Astrid Alauda   I had an interesting experience this week which is not unfamiliar to anyone who is in the field of aging. I was conversing on the phone with an expert on podcasting; who I happened to also be in the process of hiring as a consultant. Cliff is a guy who loves what he does and it comes across on the line. We began the conversation with the kind of zest you’d expect from a potential mutually beneficial relationship—he was attentive and enthusiastic. Then he asked me what my pod cast topic was…I replied