“Let’s admit it,” said Intel’s David Ryan at the recent Aging 2.0 conference celebrating the intersection of aging and technology. “We’re in the Stone Age when it comes to using technology solutions for seniors.” But not for long.
Author: Matt Perry
When Steven Soderbergh in 2001 accepted his Academy Award for directing the movie Traffic, he issued an emotional plea for the critical importance of art in human survival.
When Gov. Jerry Brown signed the End of Life Option Act last month it was a celebration for many Californians who thought the “assisted dying taboo” would never be breached.
Of all the people who have lived to age 60 – in the entire history of humankind – half of them are alive today.
It’s not often a zoo features human cage-dancing, a cross-dressing fortune teller, sake bombs at the top of a slide, and a zookeeper who doubles as a DJ from the famed Coachella Music Festival. Yet behind this concept at San Jose’s Happy Hollow Park and Zoo is an excitable woman with a singular and highly original vernacular.
Jane Chu, chairwoman of the National Endowment for the Arts, says music and art are essential forms of expression at any age, but offer unique new opportunities for older adults: to celebrate life, express grief or — for those like her mother suffering from dementia — communicate non-verbally in powerful ways.
A pioneering program from Indiana University has spawned a handful of similar efforts across the country — including one at UCLA — that address the unique concerns of dementia patients using a two-tiered approach: most help is provided not by a physician but a “care coordinator assistant”; and equal support is provided to the patient’s overburdened caregiver.
What do Pope Francis and actor Robert De Niro have in common?
Four state universities won federal grants to help train a woefully unprepared California geriatric workforce — especially in underserved communities.
The ethnically diverse population of Los Angeles County is considered a petri dish for the nation’s fast-growing cultural soup, with city and county aging agencies a model for progressive, compassionate care.