David Greenberger (of Duplexplanet.com fame) is nearing the end of his Residency in Applied Arts at the Center on Age & Community (which I direct) at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. We’ll miss his elvish humor and deep-souled good-guyness. Today, he and local collaborator Paul Cebar (and a couple of Paul’s musician friends) played about [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Choke and Dementia
Posted in cultural phenom, film, public education, tagged alzheimer's, Choke, dementia, film, memory loss, Story of Forgetting on October 22, 2008 | Comments Off
I haven’t seen it yet…but I hope to soon (don’t I always write that? I must have kids or something…). Choke, a 2008 film by Clark Gregg, is based on a novel by Fight Club author Chuck Palahnuik. In it, Angelica Huston plays a woman with dementia, whose son is the lost protagonist of the [...]
You are what you do…
Posted in cultural phenom, tagged career and dementia on October 22, 2008 | Comments Off
In the search for clues about how to avoid dementia…here’s the latest article on the topic, which explores your choice of career. Looks like we are most protected by extensive and continuous intellectual challenges and relatively low stress.
What you say matters….
Posted in cultural phenom, public education, tagged aging, alzheimer's, dementia, elderspeak on October 7, 2008 | Comments Off
An article in the NYT’s today shows that how we speak to older adults does in fact matter. In Forget Memory, I talk about this in depth – and it’s great to see more research coming out about how people with dementia respond to demeaning language, which is so rampant in our care facilities.
Art Exhibit: The Lining of Forgetting
Posted in art, cultural phenom, public education, tagged art, aschenheim, forgetting, memory loss, museums on October 2, 2008 | Comments Off
A curator friend of mine from up at the John Kohler Center of the Arts in Sheboygan, WI sent me this email with a link to a recent exhibit that explores memory and forgetting. Very thought provoking… “I was searching our Resource Library for additional catalogs on the subject and found an interesting one titled [...]
