Posts Tagged ‘senior aging’

    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

                    Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely. -Erma Bombeck Oregon Public Broadcasting has a morning show called “Think Out Loud,” and a recent topic was down-sizing a senior. A guest from AARP told a personal story of having to move her mother out of the family home she promised to keep her in. It was heart-wrenching to listen and the anguish was still palpable in her voice. Her story reminds that for most aging-in-place is preferred—but for some, it becomes untenable. Sensitivity to Telling Mom

     “Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.” -Harlan Ellison   True story about Xmas by Christine Kinnard Christmas Day It was 6 a.m. on Christmas morning when a strange woman tapped at the door. She was dressed only in her night clothes. The lady was cold and dazed and Brian invited her in for tea. Brian,

     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