alzheimer’s

Dec 06 2022

YOU CAN MAKE THIS (FARCICAL) STUFF UP

By HumbleSky Culture, Longevity No Comments

Here's an entertaining exercise for anyone who regularly visits an individual with cognitive impairment. Particularly for those frustrated by the monotony of responding to the same questions every 15-30 seconds. The tedium of the continuously looping conversation begins with the…

Jan 25 2022

Love10

The Ultimate Advance Directive

By HumbleSky Humility, Longevity, Philosophy 3 Comments

A short story by Stuart Greenbaum No one can know absolutely how they will think or act as they age into their future. Of course our younger selves are arrogant enough to think we do. But really no matter our…

Apr 24 2018

Love37

DOES DEMENTIA TAKE YOU, BEFORE YOU KNOW?

By HumbleSky Longevity, Philosophy 3 Comments

If you know or have known an individual with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, it’s fair to say you have known one too many. Sooner than later, the ravenous disease eventually claims all their memories. All the while, we must be…

Jul 18 2017

Love35

THE ART OF WALKING TO KNOW WHERE

By HumbleSky Longevity 5 Comments

Guest essay by Tiffany Paige, a therapeutic activity specialist with The Hummingbird Project What does it mean to age and truly walk with someone you love who is experiencing an illness like Alzheimer’s disease or another type of dementia? On…

May 31 2016

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WITH DEMENTIA, ‘THERE IS NO TELLING WHAT WILL HAPPEN’

By HumbleSky Culture, Longevity 4 Comments

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Charles DeCarli, MD, UC Davis Alzheimer’s Disease Center No medical diagnosis is as feared as Alzheimer’s disease. Literally. Not even cancer. Work at the University of California at Davis Alzheimer’s Disease Center offers us hope though. As the…

Mar 01 2016

Love133

ADDITION BY SUBTRACTION: DO THE MATH OF ALZHEIMER’S

By HumbleSky Longevity 6 Comments

Addition by subtraction is a curious phenomenon. It occurs in politics, for a timely example, when a reduced field of candidates helps voters and media focus more attention on those who remain. It happens in other professions and walks of…

Jul 07 2015

Love86

MEMORIES AND ART LIVE IN THE MIND OF THE BEHOLDER

By HumbleSky Culture, Longevity 7 Comments

Guest essay by Tiffany Paige, Director of Artisan Mind Every one of us has a collection of stories that define our lives and make up who we are. For someone living with Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia, those stories…

Mar 03 2015

Love86

VETERAN ‘AGE BEAT’ WRITER READY FOR ENCORE

By HumbleSky Longevity One Comment

About once a week for the past six years, The Sacramento Bee published a feature story on aging, usually on the front page and center, accompanied by a color photograph. Senior writer Anita Creamer would take in-depth looks into the…

Jun 03 2014

Love37

LONGEVITY RULES IN HOLLYWOOD

By HumbleSky Culture, Film & TV, Longevity No Comments

Hollywood is getting the message about catering to mature audiences – the one-in-five among us 65-and-older, with comparatively more disposable income, more time to be entertained and less time to be wasted. Longevity rules in this new genre, which is…

YOU CAN MAKE THIS (FARCICAL) STUFF UP

The Ultimate Advance Directive

DOES DEMENTIA TAKE YOU, BEFORE YOU KNOW?

THE ART OF WALKING TO KNOW WHERE

WITH DEMENTIA, ‘THERE IS NO TELLING WHAT WILL HAPPEN’

ADDITION BY SUBTRACTION: DO THE MATH OF ALZHEIMER’S

MEMORIES AND ART LIVE IN THE MIND OF THE BEHOLDER

VETERAN ‘AGE BEAT’ WRITER READY FOR ENCORE

LONGEVITY RULES IN HOLLYWOOD

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