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Archive for March, 2009

The big headline on the HBO Alzheimer’s Project says HOPELESS with the LESS crossed out. This made me excited for this unprecedented, three-part series on this most important of issues. But then I watched the trailer.  And it was HOPELESS.  I will watch and I’m sure hoping to find a little more hope – that [...]

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I’m so excited…we set the date for the CD Release concert for David Greenberger and Paul Cebar’s “Cherry Blosson Apple Picking Time.” Save the date and book your tickets!  8 p.m., Wed. May 13th at Milwaukee’s amazing Pabst Theater…  Tickets are 15$, general admission, and go on sale April 15th!  Tell your friends! Alterra Coffee [...]

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It’s such an exciting time…so many new images of dementia are coming out.  Here’s one – I read about it on the Speaking of Faith website.  Phillip Toledano’s Days with My Father is a going to be coming out as a book, but for now is a web-based photo essay about his father’s memory loss [...]

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Granted, this well-written essay in the Sunday, March 22nd  NYT’s Modern Love column is written by a grandson who doesn’t appear to do any of the day to day care…but he makes important observations about the potential healing power of Alzheimer’s.  In his family’s case, the disease disrupted deeply rooted rituals of disdain between mother [...]

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StoryCorps’ Memory Loss Initiative got a nice blast of publicity this week when ABC News featured the project.  MLI brings the StoryCorps experience, the professional quality recording of stories with incredibly well-trained staff, to people who are feeling their memories challenged. The MLI portion of StoryCorps’s website features tips for interviewing people with memory loss [...]

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Some might say there’s already plenty of drama in a nursing home.  But it can also feel like nothing is happening except the clockwork distribution of medications.  One nursing home in England is trying a unique way to bring a little intrigue into the home – drama residencies. This winter, I was lucky enough to [...]

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I remember sitting in a conference hotel (which hotel was that? which city?) and meeting (oh! I remember, it was Atlanta…) John Zeisel for the first time.  Meeting John is not something you forget (the city, now that’s a different matter).  John’s engine revvs at an unnaturally high level and doesn’t seem to stop.  At [...]

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