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Have you Had “The Talk”? New York Times Tackles A Thorny Issue

Posted on 05/25/2013 by | Aging, Home & Family Expert | Comments

Caregiving | Home & Family | Money & Savings | RelationshipsI was recently interviewed for a New York Times article, The Talk You Didn’t Have With Your Parents Could Cost You, about handling parents’ financial and legal affairs after they die. The article is an important one—both for adult children who may be dealing with these issues, and for parents who may be reluctant to share personal and financial information with their kids. My message is pretty simple: To anyone who may have to deal with estate matters after the death …

Thanks, Internet, for the Memories

Posted on 05/23/2013 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Caregiving | Home & Family | TechnologyAge UK, a British organization that strives to help older people get more out of digital technology, is hoping to win financial support from Google’s Global Impact Challenge for what could be a revolutionary idea. It wants to help thousands of people in Great Britain reminisce about their past via the Internet, as a way of teaching them about the value of being online and how it can improve their lives and decrease feelings of isolation. And although the project isn’t …

A TED Talk on Preparing for the Inevitable

Posted on 05/22/2013 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Caregiving | Home & FamilyWhen the annual Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) conference began in 1984, the Los Angeles Times called it “an obscure gathering of engineers, theorists and artists.” But in the nearly three decades since then, TED has morphed into a series of mind-expanding showcases staged in several countries that attract scores of celebrity visionaries, ranging from physicist Steven Hawking and neurologist Oliver Sacks to former President Bill Clinton and rock stars Bono and Peter Gabriel. Better yet, the nonprofit Sapling Foundation, which stages the …

Senate Aging Committee to Showcase Virtual Talking Dog

Posted on 05/22/2013 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Caregiving | Personal Health | TechnologyAs you’ve probably noticed, congressional events increasingly seem to feature movie stars such as Harrison Ford and other celebrities as a way of gaining public attention for an issue. But at the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging’s Healthy Aging Forum, scheduled for May 23 on Capitol Hill, there will be an even more unusual guest: GeriJoy, the talking virtual dog developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. GeriJoy is specifically designed to give older people with dementia …

Stuffed Animals as Therapy for the Elderly?

Posted on 05/22/2013 by | Caregiving | Comments

Caregiving | RelationshipsWalking by the gift shop at my mother-in-law’s nursing home, I did a double take. The shelves were lined with stuffed animals. My first thought was, why are they here? This is not a place with kids. Then I realized, it’s for the 80- and 90-year-old residents. I didn’t have to ask the clerk how they were selling. She was in the middle of ringing up a charming bear in a ruby satin dress donning an oversized floppy hat. During my …

My Interview With NPR About Alzheimer’s and My Dad

Posted on 05/20/2013 by | Aging, Home & Family Expert | Comments

Caregiving | Home & Family | Personal Health | RelationshipsI recently spoke about my Dad with NPR’s Jacki Lyden for their Weekend All Things Considered story on Alzheimer’s disease. I told her it was a bittersweet experience for me. I started listening to the show as a young child with Dad, and there I was, 40 years later, at the NPR studio, talking about him and the ways that Alzheimer’s disease  is slowly robbing his brain. The first few notes of the show’s theme song immediately summon warm, secure “all …

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