Jun 10, 2019 | Aging, News and Updates
Last week, Susan Pascal from Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper sent me four smart, provocative questions about aging and old age. These were the questions: What are common misconceptions about aging and the elderly? How can we turn the negative connotation...
May 26, 2019 | Aging, Elderhood
One summer’s evening in 2017, Kai Ryssdal’s familiar, sonorous voice filled my car. It’s a great voice, deep yet warm, amused and insightful. That voice and Ryssdal’s radio persona are so appealing that one of my colleagues named his son Kai. I looked at the clock –...
Apr 22, 2019 | Aging, Elderhood
In his essay “Age, Actually,” Teju Cole writes about Michael Haneke’s movie Amour. The couple at the film’s core are fine at the film’s beginning – old but intact. Then the wife, Anne, smart and sarcastic until then, has a stroke and develops dementia. “Georges...
Mar 22, 2019 | Aging, Elderhood, Patients
On September 14 2017, the day after a Florida nursing home lost air conditioning when a tree fell on their transformer in the wake of Hurricane Irma NPR’s Morning Edition referred to the home’s residents as “nursing home patients.” Are the words ‘home’ and ‘patient’...
