Monthly Archives: December 2010

Disney’s remake of the Sci-Fi classic Tron opens tomorrow featuring 61-year-old actor Jeff Bridges playing dual roles at both his natural age and a 35-year-old computerized avatar of himself. Hollywood has been using special effects for years to digitally alter actors faces or create digital characters based off the motion capture software of the human [...]

Nursing home residents befriend SoCal fourth graders via Google Alerts – “nursing home” by Fulton Sun Gerontocracy or Ageism? via The Official Blog of IAHSA – The Global Ageing Network by Thomas Bryan Closing In on Alzheimer’s Disease via The New Old Age by By THE NEW YORK TIMES A GOOD *AGE*: The giving goes [...]

The University of Syracuse’s Democracywise news website explores The Green House Project coming to Loretto Health and Rehabilitation Center in Syracuse: Caring for the elderly should be more home-like, say advocates for a different kind of nursing home. Now, say the advocates, nursing homes are large-scale operations that try to increase economic and service efficiency [...]

Bernie’s Excellent Adventure via TIME GOES BY by Ronni Bennett Getting to Know You via The New Old Age by By PAULA SPAN Australia’s “Granny Dumping” via The Official Blog of IAHSA – The Global Ageing Network by Thomas Bryan Why Do Old People Jump Out of Airplanes Anyway? via Age Myths by Madeleine Kolb Be Aware of Your [...]

In response to my last blog post about children or parents moving back home, ChangingAging reader Di shared this link about “Granny Pods”, a modular mobile home designed to be temporarily placed on a caregiver’s property. NPR reported on them in August: The granny pod’s real name is the MEDCottage, and it’s basically a mini [...]

Here’s an interesting graph from economist Tom Lawler demonstrating the inverse relationship trend for 24-34-year-olds either living at home with their parents or buying a house. That’s a whole lot of baby boomers taking adult children back under their roofs. And you can bet a lot of them have aging parents to take care of [...]

Life expectancy has dropped by one month according to the latest analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It’s not a significant change, researchers said, but it does represent a reversal after years of increasing longevity. Meanwhile, mortality rates dropped significantly for five of the 15 leading causes of death, including accidents (3.5 [...]

NPR’s Joseph Shapiro reports: There’s one age group that’s going into nursing homes at a higher rate. And it’s not the elderly. Young people ages 31 to 64 now make up 14 percent of the nursing home population, an analysis of federal data from the Department of Health and Human Services by NPR’s Investigative Unit [...]

ChangingAging.org Top Stories Dec. 4 to Dec. 9 RealCareNow PickerReport Looks at the Elder Energy Budget What happens to our sleep patterns as we age? How can elders learn from Kindergartners? Dr. Thomas shares thoughts on managing your daily energy budget and more in the second part of the PickerReport’s RealCareNowTV conversation with Ronni Bennett [...]

Our mission at ChangingAging.org is to use social media to highlight and push for mainstream media coverage that reflects positive views of aging. The industry is stacked against us, especially in television, which is why this local news piece from Rochester is so remarkable. YNN Rochester produced this great news coverage about Kirkhaven Nursing Home‘s journey [...]