Posted in cultural phenom, film, tagged alzheimer's, dementia, Jon Stewart, Julie Christie, memory loss, Oscars on February 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
With Julie Christie up for Best Actress at the Oscars last night, you knew there was going to be an Alzheimer’s joke. Remarkably, host Jon Stewart found a way to make a joke that wasn’t at the expense of people with dementia. When he mentioned Julie Christie’s nomination, he said “a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 19, 2008 | No Comments »
I think we’re starting to see the push back on aging and memory loss. In Carved in Sand, Catherine Ramin Jakobson provocatively notes that when our eyes begin to change in our 40s and 50s, we reach for reading glasses. But when we start to notice memory loss, we simultaneously panic and joke, [...]
Posted in cultural phenom, film, tagged dementia, Julie Christie, forgetting, Screen Actors Guild award, laughter and Alzheimer's, senior moments on February 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There’s a brewhaha over Julie Christie’s little throw-away line after she accepted the Screen Actor’s Guild Award for Best Actress. Apparently, she made a joke about forgetting to name some of the people she should have thanked. The article quotes Peter Braun, who runs the California Southland chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association who said: [...]
Posted in books, tagged Fresh Air, Martha Weinman Lear, memory loss, normal memory loss on February 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Martha Weinman Lear was on Terry Gross’ Fresh Air on Feb. 15th. She has a new book called Where Did I Leave My Glasses? that explores the how and why of normal memory loss. Lear is an accomplished writer and the age in her voice gives her a gravitas that Catherine Ramin Jakobson’s [...]
Posted in public education, tagged dementia, memory loss, StoryCorps on February 14, 2008 | No Comments »
I just heard from the director of the StoryCorps Memory Loss Initiative, Dina Zempsky, that all the MLI clips are now clickable on their website www.storycorps.net.
The project began two years ago when StoryCorps committed to making their moving and powerful interview process accessible to people with memory loss. All their facilitators are trained to understand [...]
