Monthly Archives: January 2011

From The Green House Project Blog: Food is pleasure. Preparing it, smelling it and eating it, regardless of our dining rituals, food brings meaning to our lives and defines a part of our individuality. The Green House Model protects this philosophy through teaching the importance of simple pleasures and knowing relationships for creating meaning and [...]

If you’re in the Mid-Atlantic or Northeast chances are you’ve been snowed-in this week. How’d you spend your snow days? Our new comments section allows you to share photos – give it a try and share your snow day pictures. Snow days for me mean the family is home. We made a snowman out of [...]

Here’s a blog-worthy comment from the power-commenter of the week, Karen Overturf. Someone* get this woman a blog, she’s got something to say! We’re still discussing how to bring the “delivery system” into the “person-centered community” mindset, right? So much of what was the “medical” mindset was our world placing the physician and supporting staff [...]

ChangingAging.org Top Stories Jan. 21 to 27 ChangingAging Blogstream Updates We’ve been hard at work behind the scenes at ChangingAging developing a major redesign of the site. We will soon be rolling out more visible changes so it’s time to give you, our valued ChangingAging community, a heads up. The goal is to greatly expand the [...]

For nearly two months we’ve been working behind the scenes at ChangingAging developing a complete rebuild and redesign of the website. We will soon be rolling out more visible changes so it’s now time to give you, our valued ChangingAging community, a heads up so we don’t freak you out and scare you away. The [...]

Last week’s groundbreaking news that the FDA has approved the first test that can diagnose Alzheimer’s disease in living persons raises huge implications. Dr. Bill Thomas tackles these questions in the PickerReport’s RealCareNowTV: There has never been a way to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease in living people — until now. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration [...]

Bravo to my adopted home-state for having the courage to boldly innovate health care at a time when most states are drastically slashing budgets and services. Baltimore’s NPR affiliate 88.1 WYPR’s Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast reports: In a state with a shortage of primary care physicians, is it possible to reduce health care costs, [...]

Did you miss the 2010 Green House Project Meeting and Celebration in Albany, NY? Don’t worry, you can join us as we continue the conversations started at last year’s Meeting and help us prepare for the upcoming 2011 meeting. The conversation continues at The Green House Blog, where we will be featuring weekly video highlights [...]

Mark your calendars — RealCareNowTV goes live tomorrow at 11:30 a.m. EST! Mark your calendars to join us for a live broadcast of RealCareNowTV on Tuesday, Jan. 25 at 11:30 a.m. EST. Dr. Bill Thomas will be joined by our friend Dr. Al Power for a provocative ethical discusion about early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. [...]

I love that Madeleine Kolb was struck with inspiration to Change Aging while taking a shower this morning, and I love that she rushed onto our new open LinkedIn Group to tell us about it: Madeleine Kolb • I think this is a terrific step forward. I’d like to share an idea about Changing Aging which [...]