Monthly Archives: June 2010
The Belvedere-Tiburon Library in Marin County will host a senior week from Tuesday, July 13th through Friday, July 16th. This will be a great event for Marin County residents that are interested in learning about homecare, caregiving, aging in place, Alzheimer’s disease in Marin, dementia and anything else related to being an elder or having… Read more »
Can you imagine the pain and heartbreak? This is what happened to Barry Peterson, a CBS news correspondent. He came home one day and his wife Jan, also a television journalist, didn’t recognize him. She mixed up the words in her sentences. Eventually, she had trouble even forming a sentence. Peterson just released a book… Read more »
When most people turn 65, they retire. They start golfing, perhaps, or start that knitting project they always wanted to start but never found the time to do so. Maybe they begin to volunteer, or host dinner parties, or read more books. Olga Murray is not most people. When she turned 65, she started a… Read more »
Today, the first ever international conference on the aging process begins in Red Wing, Minn. The First Annual Mayo Clinic Robert and Arlene Kogod Center on Aging Conference will pair clinicians and researchers in a four-day forum that runs through June 20. The intention is to provide a space for clinicians and researchers to share… Read more »
Do you know a senior or elder in San Francisco (or anywhere in the Bay Area or world) that has a hard time with a computer but would love to use Skype? Asus (a Taiwanese company that makes laptops as well) has created a dedicated Skype Videophone that is called the AiGuru SV1T Skype Videophone…. Read more »
A 2010 University of Michigan Health System study found that seniors with untreated visual disorders are significantly more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease. Mary A.M. Rogers, Ph.D., a research assistant professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School, said in an article appearing on the University of Michigan website that “Visual problems… Read more »
The actress who made America fall in love with Blanche Devereaux, the sweet and sexy Golden Girl of the hit TV series “Golden Girls” died June 3 at age 76. Rue McClanahan was the youngest (by at least 10 years) of the four actresses who played the Golden Girls — well-dressed, quick-witted, over-50 women who shared… Read more »
Louise Bourgeois didn’t have her breakout moment until she was 71 — when she became the first woman ever to have a retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The 1982 show made her an instant art celebrity and a feminist pioneer, and was proof that the pursuit of artistry… Read more »
In a study that tracked the emotions of 340,000 adults, Arthur Stone, a professor of psychiatry at Stony Brook University, recently found that happiness drops off in someone’s 20′s and increases again beginning in someone’s 50′s. Stone’s study was based on self report via a Gallup phone survey. His findings factored in the employment, marital… Read more »
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