Monthly Archives: May 2010

Broad(mede) Vistas Aging

Here’s another plug for the Erickson School’s one-of-a-kind Masters program. This article will appear in UMBC’s summer 2010 Alumni Magazine. The Erickson School’s masters program for the Management of Aging Services (MAgS) counts among its alumni professionals as diverse as lawyers, publishers, artists, nursing directors, and, of course, seniors housing executives – hailing from states [...]

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Culture Change Goes Mainstream

BREAKING NEWS — One of the remarkable outtakes from Provider Magazine’s May cover story “Culture Change Goes Main Stream,” is the dramatic increase of awareness of the culture change movement in recent years. In 2005, nearly three-quarters of health care opinion leaders surveyed by the Commonwealth Fund were unfamiliar with the concept of “culture change,” [...]

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Who Wants To Live To Be 100?

The proverbial answer to who wants to be 100 is the 99-year-old. But nowadays, quite a few people are obsessed with living to 100 or beyond. I recently searched through the social networking site Meetup.com looking for groups that had formed around issues related to aging and elderhood. What I found was interesting: The number [...]

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