Blog Profile / Changing Aging
| URL : | http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/changingaging/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Health / Aging | |
| Posts on Regator: | 345 | |
| Posts / Week: | 1.3 | |
| Archived Since: | April 26, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Learning Circles
Meagan Hannan and LaVrene Norton are two of the leaders in the national effort to change the culture of long-term care. This not from LaVrene popped into my inbox and I thought that people might find it interesting. Note the...
Top Comment
DeanOR gets it right with reference to the workforce issue. This is why addressing the meaning, worth and value of ELDERHOOD is key to solving these other problems... I think those who serve the elderly, like those who serve...
Closing the Barn Door
After the Horse Needs Health Care... Diane from Cab Drollerly takes a hard look at "post-claim underwriting." This reality provides a nearly perfect illustration of why our health needs to rescued from the "profits before people...
Obi Wan Kenobi...
buys a used car. Noticed we haven't had a fun post in a little while......
Political Prediction
My prediction for the popular vote in today's Pennsylvania Democratic Presidential Primary Election. Obama 51 percent Clinton 49 percent I'll post the actual results as soon as I have them. No matter which candidate you prefer, if...
Penn Dem Primary
With 33 percent in Clinton is up by eight. It's not looking too good for my earlier prediction of an Obama win by 2....
Eleven At Night
Obama down by 8 with 75 percent reporting, still have Philadelphia suburbs out and that should be good for Obama. Question: Can he trim the margin to 6? PS: Just so you don't think that I am a total...
Ten Percent
Looks like the margin is going to be 10 percent (or maybe a tiny bit less) That's all folks......
Not So Old Ladies
Your health care system is run for profit, results--- not so much. Seriously, this is not a story about how we are worse off than Britain or France or Canada or Cuba, this is a story about an absolute...
Naming the Baby Boom
David Wolfe covers some interesting ground... Surely the boomer generation, if not the greatest generation, is the most mythologized generation in history. Interestingly the boomer generation was not named until former People magazi...
Now and Then
Okay, this is cool. Here is a website where people post on picture of themselves as children paired with a second picture of them as adults--- recreating the earlier photo. There is something strangely fascinating about this. Thinki...
Landon Y. Jones
A little more information on the man who named the "baby boom." Landon Jones has had a thirty-seven year career as a magazine editor. He served as managing editor of People magazine for eight years and wrote and edited...
You Can't Hear This...
But you used to....
ChangingAging.org Redesign -- Please Bookmark!
Attention Readers! We are launching a new design for the blog that will be hosted directly at the URL www.changingaging.org. Please navigate to www.changingaging.org and reset your bookmarks and sign up for our new RSS Feed. In the coming days...
Disaster in Buffalo
A great loss... A commuter plane dropped out of the sky without warning and nose-dived into a suburban Buffalo house in a fiery crash that killed all 49 people aboard and one person in the home. It was the...
Power Up Friday
As the studies of drug therapy for behavioral expressions in dementia continue to appear, a groundswell of critics has also followed. As I continue to speak out, so do these allies. Sister Imelda Maurer from San Francisco wrote me last...
Blanchard WinsDays
Dishing Up More News on School Lunches Last week I wrote about legislative blocks to creating sustainable school gardens and serving healthy lunches for children AND for elders living in the neighborhood. This Aging in Community strategy is greener, more...
Kevin Frick writes...
in a note to me... I heard you on the Marc Steiner show last week. Great show. I was wondering if you collaborate with anyone here at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. I have been working...
Monkhouse Monday
The "Grande Dame“ of Swiss Acting died in her 90th Year Anne-Marie Blanc, the grand old lady among Swiss actors died last week, her last stage performance was only four years ago. In an interview she stated that in her...
Getting Closer!
Please let it be so... President Obama looking at Sebelius to head HHS Posted: 05:00 AM ET From CNN Senior White House Correspondent Ed Henry WASHINGTON (CNN) – In a sign that she is getting a close look for Secretary...