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Learn how to meditate and take the time every day to meditate. Enjoy living in the moment and living mindfully. Breathe and pause, step away from the chatter in your mind. Your body will appreciate the moments of healing.
Live mindfully
Learn how to meditate and take the time every day to meditate. Enjoy living in the moment and living mindfully. Breathe and pause, step away from the chatter in your mind. Your body will appreciate the moments of healing.
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Quantified self meets cognitive function to control things
Emotiv has developed a wearable, portable, high-resolution EEG brain wave monitor. It's like fitbit, for your brain. The headset may also allow those with failing bodies to live fuller lives through brain-colled devices.
Human cost of failures in elderly care homes
How can we protect our elderly family members when we can't be there to take care of them ourselves? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22872019
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Developing Empathy for the Aging Population
To help others as they age tools are necessary to develop empathy towards their situation. Being able to walk in someone else's shoes can be helpful to develop empathy and understand the other person's situation.
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Educating the next generation of doctors about elder care
Not only do we need to train more geriatricians, but we also need doctors who pursue geriatrics as a labor of love.
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What are the implications of new technologies, like AI, robotics, genetic engineering on age?
What are the implications of new technologies, like AI, robotics, genetic engineering, nano-technology, on aging and wellness? This is perhaps best articulated by Ray Kurzweil in some of his early work such as The Singularity, Kurzweil, Ray (2005),
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SEX and its benefits on AGEING PROCESS
It is truth sex sells but that is not its only virtue...
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Please don't sell me retirement benefits, ever
There's a show, Mother in Law, on Citizen Tv, a Kenyan media house, screened every Sunday evening at 7.35pm Kenyan time.
Blue Zones
The book, The BLue Zones, finds the areas in the world where people live the longest and tries to find out why.
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Our mental models about age and older populations are formed early and reinforced daily through various institutions: the media, schools, government, business and non governmental organizations. Stating, "She is 85" can create a negative image.
Change the conversation and the way we think
Our mental models about age and older populations are formed early and reinforced daily through various institutions: the media, schools, government, business and non governmental organizations. Stating, "She is 85" can create a negative image.
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Who Cares For The Caregiver?
This touching immersion into the relationship between caregiver and the aging it touching and charged and raises the question: Who cares for the caregivers?
Life is fun and curiosity a longer driver
Swan and Carmelli (1996) show that participants (average age 70.6) that are high in curiosity have a lower rate of mortality.
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Love Has No Age.
Who said Love cant happen in Old Age ! Quoted 71 yr old, Rameshbhai Parekh, who got married to Parvatiben, 65 yrs old. I read this news and was quite happy, imagining the two sould finding themselves in peace.
Do we need to challenge the very notion that wellbeing and age are actually connected?
Should we think differently about age as a terminal condition? Aubrey de Grey suggests correlating advancing in years and a decline in wellbeing is an artifact of historic thinking, but not necessarily accurate.
The game that can give you 10 extra years of life!
After suffering a concussion, game designer Jane McGonigal developed a game that can add years to your life by strengthening your level of resilience
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Real Beauty – Real Age – Real People - Real Life
Convincing women to embrace their own and unique beauty is hard and important to make them feel better. Accepting the life cycle and the inevitable seniority is even harsh and mandatory in a world that worships youth!
Top Ten Wellness Goals for Seniors from "Design for Aging, Your Future-Self"
Quote: "The stereotypical product image for seniors entails bigger buttons, bigger text, and bigger screens. When it comes to designing for the elderly, it is not necessary to dumb down technologies". A presentation by Carina Ngai at SXSW2013
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Gardening as a way to prevent aging and help the community
In a recent report in the Journal of Aging and Physical Activity evidence showed that gardeners who worked in their yards one or more hours each week experienced fewer recent falls, thus lessening the chance of ending up in the hospital
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Hunter S. Thompson and "Using Yourself Up"
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!"
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Incentives for Multi-Generational Living
How can we encourage more families to have their aging parent(s) move in with them vs. having to opt for a retirement home or caregiver? A difficult decision with unknown burdens coupled with unknown joys that can be immensely beneficial to all.
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All of us on this site are well connected. Unfortunately, the people who could answer the question based on their personal experience are unlikely to visit this site. Might it be more helpful to seek out those older, disconnected folks?
Why ask young people how maintain well being and thrive as we age? Connecting with ones left behind
All of us on this site are well connected. Unfortunately, the people who could answer the question based on their personal experience are unlikely to visit this site. Might it be more helpful to seek out those older, disconnected folks?