I’m seeing lots of traffic of people looking for who sings the song on the trailer to the HBO series on Alzheimer’s. It’s Gary Jules. Here’s a youtube clip.
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Song from HBO Trailer
Posted in cultural phenom, disability, film, music, tagged HBO Alzheimer's song on April 20, 2009 |
Photo Essay
Posted in art, books, cultural phenom, disability, Uncategorized, tagged images of aging, memory loss, Phillip Toledano, photo essay on dementia on March 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Creativity and Dementia in DC!
Posted in art, cultural phenom, disability, public education, tagged arts and dementia, creativity matters, Meet Me At MoMA, national center for creative aging, NCCA, TimeSlips on February 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I’m so excited for the March 30- April 1st Creativity Matters: Health, Wellness and the Arts Symposium coordinated by the National Center for Creative Aging. I’ll be doing an all-day TimeSlips Creative Storytelling training workshop at the Iona Senior Center on Monday the 30th. On the 31st, there’s a knock-out line up of folks presenting [...]
Are social, challenging activities enough?
Posted in art, disability, public education, science of memory on February 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »
There is a swirl of research out there now…and it’s confusing. On the one hand, there is a growing body of research that suggests that social, creative activities help stave off memory loss. This article for example, suggests that activities like quilting, pottery and computer games reduce the effects of memory loss. Logic would have [...]
After the Forgetting
Posted in cultural phenom, disability, public education, tagged dementia, Erica Hielman, Greg Sharrow, radio, StoryCorps Memory Loss Initiative on December 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Vermont-based, independent radio producer Erica Hielman has created a story, now available on transom.org, exploring the relationship between Vermont couple Greg Sharrow and his partner Bob, and Greg’s mother Marj who is experiencing dementia. Greg and his mother always had a strong bond. For many people with strong and positive memories of parents or loved [...]
Strange Bedfellows for Change
Posted in cultural phenom, disability, tagged alzheimer's, dementia, disability, insurance on September 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I gave a talk last week to a group of folks in the insurance industry. Usually the only thing you hear about this crowd is that they are out to deny claims. But this group was very thoughtful and just might be part of the shift in the way we think about dementia. Rather than [...]
