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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Ann Mary Robertson Moses grew up on a farm and worked on many New York farms with her husband and children. She took pleasure in doing embroidery and sewing up until her 70s when arthritis made it painful for her to push a needle through fabric. Born in Greenwich, New York on September 7, 1860, [...]
Bettye Lavette is an American soul singer who had a top-ten hit at 16 but didn’t taste similar success again until her 60s. Born in Muskegon, Michigan in 1946, Bettye grew up in Detroit and found some success as a teenager but was largely off of the national map until she hit her 60s. I’ve [...]
April 25, 2010 – 10:16 pm
There will be up to 6 million centenarians in the world by the middle of this century! According to Dr. Walter M. Bortz II and Randall Stickrod, most of these centenarians will be healthy, functional and largely independent. The Roadmap to 100, Bortz and Stickrod’s new book, utilizes new science and a thirty-year longitudinal study [...]
Engage As You Age is excited about its very own Activity Specialist, Caitlyn Louchard, starring as Emily Dickinson in the play Tell It Slant. A musical drama about the youthful love of poet Emily Dickinson, Tell It Slant, will have a month-long run at the SouthSide Theater in Building D at the Fort Mason Center. [...]
Lyndsay Green’s new book You Could Live a Long Time: Are You Ready? features the insights that she gleaned from interviewing 40 seniors who were identified as “role models for aging” by the people who know them. The 40 seniors interviewed in the book were Canadians ranging in age from 75 to 100. They were [...]
March 31, 2010 – 12:18 pm
The Washington Post recently published “A Guide for Making the Most of Old Age.” What stood out for us at Engage As You Age were the first two items in the guide: Exercise your brain Strong social ties can also help For the brain fitness or exercising your brain section of the article it cites [...]
Engage As You Age is 1 of 30 finalists in the Vertical Response New Deal Contest. Please vote for us. You’ll need to create an account with Vertical Response. We’ll put the money towards providing Engage As You Age’s 1×1 visits to a lower-income senior in the San Francisco Bay Area. CLICK HERE to see [...]
