While you're staying indoors to beat the summer heat, might as well get your game-on! AARP has released the Video Games for Grownups: Summer 2009 list, and it's not to miss. Some highlighted games for all ages:
And the list goes on. Check 'em all out!
Today, the President will be challenging non-profits to think bigger and expand the ways they can make a difference. At AARP, we're accepting that challenge by connecting our members to Create The Good where they can find and post opportunities to serve. In addition, we're growing our library of free, downloadable "do-it-yourself" toolkits that give you all you need to make an impact with your friends, on your time, in your community.
You can watch the President's challenge live at 2:00pm EST at http://www.whitehouse.gov/live/ where he will also recognize some great 50+ social entrepreneurs. He will meet with Purpose Prize winners who have finished their midlife careers and come back for their encores, recycling their lifetimes of experience into innovative solutions to community problems.
Recent Purpose Prize winner Robert Chambers will speak. Chambers was 57 when he founded Bonnie CLAC to provide low-income car loans to the rural poor. "I was old enough to understand the injustice I saw and experienced enough to do something about it," says Chambers. "Given the size of our baby boomer population, it's time to figure out how to build on all that experience and use it to solve our nation's most pressing social problems."
Other 50+ Purpose Prize winners invited to the White House are: Gary Maxworthy, who distributes millions of pounds of fresh produce to people in need; Sharon Rohrbach, who provides nurse visits for at-risk newborns; Martha Rollins, who eases prisoner re-entry into the community with job training and support; and Gayle Porter and Marilyn Gaston, who empower African-American women to improve their health.
Visit www.AARP.org/CreateTheGood to find and post opportunities in your state.
The President has decided to make a push for the increased roll of technology in the field of health care. This has a number of interesting and possibly very beneficial effects. While digital medical records offer the promise of reduced medical errors and greater efficiencies in the system, they can also be an economic boon for areas in need of a new industry to provide jobs.
Bringing more tech into medicine can also make life much easier for people. Many doctors are beginning to offer online appointments to patients with mild issues that don't warrant the inconvenience of a trip to the doctor. In fact, there has been a big spike in doctors who communicate with their patients online.
Increased access to health care professionals, added convenience and new jobs?
Sounds like a win-win-win to me:
At what age are you "old"? As it turns out the answer to that question has a lot to do with the age of the person you're asking. A new Pew Research Center survey shows that while those in their thirties might consider 60 to be old, people over age 65 don't think you're old until you've turned 75. Across the board people are claiming to feel younger than their age might suggest, and that seems like a good thing.
This survey also took a look at the differences of opinion between the generations on a variety of relevant topics. It's really interesting and provides some great insight into how folks at different ages perceive the world around them.
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