On September 11-13, 2009, the Bay Area Jewish Healing Center will host a weekend program at Camp Tawonga. It is for members of families (adults, children, teens, extended families and even friends) who are experiencing grief tied to the passing of a friend or family member.
The weekend program is called “Grief & Growing: A Healing [...]
Manoel de Oliveira is 100 years old and will be 101 this December! In fact, he has made at least one film each year since he was 82! Born in Porto, Portugal on December 11, 1908, Oliveira has won multiple honors at Cannes, Venice and at many other festivals. He keeps on making films because [...]
Researchers from the University of Michigan, University of Cambridge and the Peninsula Medical School recently compared 8,299 Americans 65+ with 5,276 British seniors and found that the American group had significantly better “brain health.” The American “brain health” advantage was found to be even more pronounced as people aged. Specifically, differences amongst those over the [...]
On Saturday, July 18th, New Orleans jazz trumpeter Lionel Ferbos celebrated his 98th birthday! He played not one but TWO gigs (@ 8 pm and 10 pm) to bring in his 98th year! He performed at Snug Harbor in New Orleans. Ferbos is often described as New Orleans’s oldest living and actively playing jazz musician. [...]
In a recent survey of 100 centenarians by Evercare, 3% of them said that they were using Twitter! Right now there are over 84,000 centenarians in the United States. My hunch is that probably less than 3% of them are tweeting as Evercare’s survey size is pretty small. Still, many seniors are turning to technology [...]
Engage As You Age now has a Yelp page. Click here to see it and please do Yelp about us if you’ve used our services.
Engage As You Age works with homebound and isolated older adults and seniors that are aging in place (in their own residences) or are living in a continuing care, assisted living [...]
Born in 1911, Nola Ochs completed a BA in 2007! Not satisfied, Nola is currently working on an MA degree! Nola completed the BA at Fort Hays Steve University in Hays, Kansas. After completing the degree in 2007, Nola was a guest lecturer on a nine-day Caribbean cruise!
Nola went back to school and took her first [...]
Engage As You Age now has a business page on Facebook!
Click here and become a “fan” of it and encourage others to do so.
Engage As You Age connects homebound people with their passions in the San Francisco Bay Area. Currently Engage As You Age pairs activity specialists with older adults and seniors in the following [...]
Joseph William Perkins, better known as Pinetop Perkins, turned 96 on Tuesday, July 7th and did what he loves…. played the blues. Originally a guitarist, Perkins injured some tendons in his left arm in a fight and shifted to the piano.
He toured with Earl Hooker in the 1950s and played for most of the 1970s [...]
On June 24th, 2009, Engage As You Age’s Founder & Owner Ben Lewis “pitched” the business live in front of over 150 people at San Francisco’s Action Theater (inside the Metereon). Engage As You Age won both awards given out that night as it was the audience’s choice as well as the top choice of [...]
