Monthly Archives: September 2011

Playing an Instrument to Preserve Hearing

September 26, 2011 – 3:47 pm

A third of people over the age of 60 have lost their ability to hear due to a decrease in being able to discriminate acoustic information from the environment! This powerful statistic comes from a study conducted by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. A different 2011 study found that being a… Read more »

By Ben Lewis | Posted in Aging Studies | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Summitt Still On the Way Up: Coach Says Dementia Won’t Stop Her

September 6, 2011 – 2:02 am

One of college basketball’s best female coaches announced in August that she was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s — but that she would continue coaching in spite of the diagnosis. “I plan to continue to be your coach,” Pat Summitt said in a two-minute video statement released by the University of Tennessee’s athletic department. Summitt… Read more »

By Stacey Palevsky | Posted in Dementia and Alzheimer's, Examples of People Engaging As They Age | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)


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