Ivy Bean has passed away at the age of 104. Most likely the oldest regular user (if not user) of Facebook, Ivy Bean kept her (at last count) 4,949 friends up to speed with her life. On August, 15, 2008 an article described Ivy as being “the world’s oldest facebook user.” At that time she [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Our CBS 5 TV Special is now up on our website (in the videos section). You can also see the videos in this blog:

Living Well Assisted Living At Home is hosting a great (and free) seminar on Wednesday, February 24th @ 6 pm. Living Well is one of Engage As You Age’s partners and we’ve co-presented with them and have seen first hand what a great job their CEO Dr. Tessa Ten Tusscher does. She’ll be co-presenting with [...]

A recent article in the AARP presents an interesting angle about seniors and baby boomers embracing new technologies that are out there. The focus of the article is on the growing trend of baby boomers (and even their elder parents) “sexting” on their cell phones. “Sexting” is a recently coined term that essentially a play [...]

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 [...]

Engage As You Age will be leading a panel discussion on “Aging In Place” at San Francisco State University on November 18, 2009. FACT: 9 out of 10 baby boomers and seniors want to remain in their own homes throughout their entire retirement. This panel discussion will cover not only what options are out there [...]