Last night CBS featured a homecare company on its show Undercover Boss. What stood out to us at Engage As You Age was that the healthcare and caregiving scenes on the program seemed to focus on most everything but socialization for the seniors. Aside from bingo we didn’t see much meaningful conversation. Laundry was done,… Read more »

The 26th International Conference of Alzheimer’s Disease International will take place on March 26th through March 29th in Toronto, Canada. The theme of the conference is “The Changing Face of Dementia.” The conference will focus on current research on dementia and Alzheimer’s and examine different dementia care options and explore homecare, caregiving and other community… Read more »

People often say that good things come to those who wait. When it comes to taking care of an aging parent or partner that usually is NOT the case. Fans of the San Francisco Giants waited over fifty years for them to win a World Series championship. Last night horns and cheers were heard throughout… Read more »

Engage As You Age believes everyone deserves social interaction and enrichment — especially those who can’t easily (or ever) leave their homes or retirement communities. That’s why we pair talented, caring and intelligent Activity Specialists with isolated or immobile seniors. Because we know how important it is to have access to meaningful conversation and enriching learning… 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 »

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 »

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… Read more »

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… Read more »

There are over 5 million Americans that are living with Alzheimer’s disease. A just released report from the Alzheimer’s Association, 2010 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures, finds that African-Americans and Hispanics are at the highest risk of developing the disease. The Alzheimer’s Association found that African-Americans are nearly twice as likely as Caucasians to develop… Read more »