Monthly Archives: March 2011

There’s an excellent feature on Huffington Post where savvy designers assemble slideshows of ridiculous stock photography and mock them.When I saw today’s update in a friend’s email I automatically thought the worst: This Week In Ridiculous Stock Photos: Old People Using Computers But upon reading the author’s intro I thought I’d give them the benefit of [...]

The nursing home population dropped by 5 percent due to increases in nursing home alternatives. [St. Louis Today] The past is hard to forget when evaluating new dementia screening tests. [GeriPal] States providing new tools to promote end-of-life planning. [WSJ Health Blog] How to communicate to silent loved ones. [The Forum] Consumer advocates to ask [...]

Guest-post from TheGreenHouseProject Blog. Long Term Living magazine’s March issue rounds up the top 10 senior design innovations that have transformed nursing home and long term care in the past decade. It’s no surprise that The Green House Project not only makes the top 10, but it embodies nearly every other item on the list. [...]

– Mice who took up jogging reversed the aging process, study shows. [AOLNews] – Lack of patients for clinical trials may be roadblock to Alzheimer’s cure. [Alzheimer'sSupport] – Converting Medicaid to block grants will cost long term care providers billions. [McKnight's LongTermCare News] – GOP “gut and privatize” strategy for social security double-crosses older adults [...]

The New York Times New Old Age blog visits one of the nation’s newest senior-specific emergency departments at St. Joseph Mercy in Ann Arbor, Mich: When Harold Richards, 81, arrived at the hospital emergency room in Ann Arbor, Mich., he expected a long wait. After all, he’d been through the emergency room drill before. … [...]

Our thoughts go out to our friends in Japan and around the Pacific impacted by the tsunami. The NPR Blog is compiling a list of information and news resources, such as the Google Person Finder launched to help family and friends connect with loved ones in Japan. If you see any other helpful links please [...]

ChangingAging Guest-Post Jean grew up in a household with a disabled and angry father.  Home was not a pleasant place to be. She and her brothers assumed their mother was just too weak or scared to leave him. No one dared talk about this situation. Decades later Jean began spending time with her mother and [...]

Reducing reliance on so-called “chemical restraints” in Alzheimer’s and dementia care is a corner-stone of the culture change movement and patient-centered care. The PickerReport’s RealCareNowTV presents Part 2 in a series exploring an innovative new drug-free approach to Alzheimer’s and dementia care: What happens when Alzheimer’s patients are taken off antipsychotic drugs? A recent initiative by [...]

The Baltimore Sun just emailed ChangingAging to invite our readers to participate in a livechat at BaltimoreSun.com with Johns Hopkins pain specialist Dr. Paul Christo: Join us March 9 at noon EST (11 a.m. CST/9 a.m. PST) for a live chat on the common pains that senior citizens experience, including (but not limited to) arthritis, spinal [...]

Two men with autism embark on a global quest to change prevailing attitudes about disability and intelligence.