If you missed my live-stream video coverage from the fourth annual Green House Project Meeting and Celebration last week in Birmingham, Ala., please stay-tuned because we’ll be featuring the videos on The Green House Blog and ChangingAging soon. In fact, one of the great features of using the streaming video service UStream Watershed is the ability [...]
Have you ever looked back at your day in the office and noticed you accomplished nothing substantial despite running around all day, attending meetings, answering phone calls and generally staying busy? If your office experience was anything like mine, that was the norm rather than the exception. Frequent meetings about nothing. Constant interruptions by managers [...]
Artist and filmmaker Lee Boot, a good friend and former colleague of mine at UMBC’s Imaging Research Center, is one of those idealist types who wants to save the world through art. It’s a radical idea, but you have to admit our conventional approaches to problem solving — such as politics, medicine, technology and consumerism [...]
Helen’s comment on Dr. Bill’s post, Fear of Flying err no… Falling, is a must read: In my experience, my elderly [oops, elder] and now advanced-dementia mother has maintained all her knowledge gained in pre-dementia falls prevention programs. Strangely, or miraculously, she still has immediate recall of what to do when she falls [i.e. she [...]
Did you miss Dr. Bill Thomas’ keynote speech streamed live from the Green House Project annual conference? Don’t worry, you can replay it below! Stay tuned for special live-streamed panels featuring elders and shahbazim viewable at The Green House Project blog: September 29th @ 4:15-5:15p EDT Elders Rule! Panel of Elders Talk about a Life [...]
Person-centered care advocates in Rhode Island have got friends in high places! Rhode Island’s state legislature recently passed sweeping culture change legislation that opens the door to building Green House Project nursing homes and strongly promotes person-centered long term care. A local Public Television program, State TV, produced an eight-part special documenting passage of the [...]
Last month the Tribes of Eden gathered in Denver for their 5th International Eden Alternative Conference. I was there to videotape Dr. Bill Thomas’ keynote address and had the fortune of catching a few other sessions. Below I’ve compiled some highlights, including Bill’s introduction of the Path to Mastery, several minutes of Al Power’s powerful [...]
A couple months ago, I spent my very last day on the job at UMBC with a special guest — Childs Walker, higher education reporter for The Baltimore Sun. I brought Childs to UMBC to meet the Erickson School’s amazing faculty, students and alumni. Childs’ story ran on the front page of the Sun last [...]
The “poisonous cocktail,” as it’s called in the healthcare biz, is the staggeringly common practice of over-prescribing prescription drugs — primarily to older adults. As The New York Times reported in a great piece a couple years ago: This is what doctors call polypharmacy, otherwise known as a “poisonous cocktail” of many drugs that can [...]
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 [...]