Posts Tagged ‘longevity’

    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

  “Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.” -Stephen R. Covey   Stephen Covey’s seminal work on how to create a better human species titled “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” was first published in 1989 and has sold over 15 million copies in 38 languages since first its release. The concepts are timeless and can be broadly applied as I have done here with aging in place. What follows is The

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

  “Don’t worry about aging, it won’t go on forever.” (Overheard in the lobby of Edina's 7500 York Cooperative for senior citizens)    The rapidly approaching New Year (and new decade) has me thinking about the passage of time—that, and a comment I heard shouted across the gym this morning:  “How much time ya got?” Betty (one of the faithful who exercises daily) was asking Rod how long he had left on his treadmill session. Rod’s quick witted and a character, I knew his answer was not going to be what she expected--I wasn’t disappointed: “Only God knows, Betty…only

  You can take the time to be healthy, or you'll have to take the time to be sick. -P. Roden   I went to the gym early this morning for 2 reasons: 1) to get a workout in 2) to be greeted by Jean at the front desk. Work out Every year at this time the same phenomenon occurs at the gym; you long-time gym rats will know the scenario. We get an influx of fresh-enthusiastic New Year resolution makers. They are the ones with the new gear and the personal trainers. I’m always silently pulling for them