January 31, 2010 – 8:46 pm
On February 11, 2010, the monthly Silicon Valley Positive Aging Forum Series will takes place at Avenidas (located in Palo Alto, California). It will feature Dr. Laura Carstenson, a Stanford University Professor and the Founding Director of the Stanford Center on Longevity. The topic of her lecture is A Long Bright Future. This lecture is [...]
January 27, 2010 – 4:48 pm
First and foremost, more and more seniors are getting online via personal computers. According to a 2009 Nielsen report, the number of seniors online has increased by 6.2 million since 2004 (from 11.3 to 17.5 million). We hear regularly from seniors in the San Francisco Bay Area that they’d love to learn what computers can [...]
January 25, 2010 – 10:03 pm
Engage As You Age has decided to create a community calendar that focuses on aging events in the San Francisco Bay Area. If you live in San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Marin, Alameda or Contra Costa County this will be a calendar that will tell you about all of the events going on in [...]
January 12, 2010 – 3:10 pm
Have you seen the documentary Young @ Heart? If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area you should watch it tonight on KQED at 9 pm. KQED, San Francisco’s public television station is airing the great documentary as part of its Independent Lens series. Learn more about the Young @ Heart on KQED’s website. [...]
January 11, 2010 – 4:38 pm
In 2006, Herbert Baum, became the oldest person to receive a PhD. He was 79 and received the PhD in economics from the University of Chicago! He was “ABD” (all but dissertation) for 55 years beforehand! He had previously left the university in 1951 to take a position in Washington D.C. as a government agricultural [...]
January 5, 2010 – 3:47 pm
San Francisco Bay Area tv station CBS 5 will air a 30-minute tv special on Engage As You Age on Thursday, January 14th @ 7 pm. The show will air after the local CBS 5 news in the time slot that Eye on the Bay normally airs. Judge Judy will follow us! This is a [...]
January 4, 2010 – 3:28 pm
The New York Times recently wrote a fabulous article about 94-year-old painter Carmen Herrera. Julian Zugazagoitia, the director of El Museo del Bario in East Harlem, is quoted in the article as saying “To bloom into full glory at 94–whatever Carmen Herrara’s slow rise might say about the difficulties of being a woman artist, an [...]
