Ed note: Anyone can join Kaiser’s Senior Caucus tomorrow for its Friday, April 14th webinar that will be held from 10:00 am – 11:30 am. The Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/91840672295. Eric Larson will be discussing his research on the aging brain – an exceptional longitudinal study called the Adult Changes in Thought (ACT) study. Eric has spoken here at Skyline in the past.
Speakers for the upcoming webinar include:
Eric B Larson, MD, MPH, with colleagues from University of Washington and Group Health received a demonstration grant from the National Institutes of Health to establish a model Alzheimer’s disease registry in 1986. This morphed into the landmark Adult Changes in Thought study with the establishment of the initial cohort of 2581 randomly selected volunteers who joined the study 1994-96. Larson, a general internist and eventually professor of medicine at University of Washington He came to Seattle as a UW fellow in 1975 after training in Boston at Harvard Medical School. He was Medical Director at UWMC and Associated Dean for clinical affairs 1989-2002 before moving to Group Health in 2002 to lead the Center for Health Studies. He also believed in the tremendous scientific potential of the ACT study if it could achieve continuous funding over many years. At Group Health /Kaiser Permanente Washington he eventually became the Executive Director of the Research Institute and Vice President for Research and Health Innovation. He recently retired from KPW, July 2002, and continues to work part time from his position in UW’s Department of Medicine as a Professor of Medicine.
Dr. Larson’s presentation will provide an overview of the ACT study, the major expansion of funding for ACT and its related studies, and highlights in how our understanding of the aging brain and conditions like Alzheimer’s Disease has changed and will likely change even more from ongoing studies. He will highlight how what we know about the aging brain is relevant to everyday life of older adults including their medical care. He has spoken to the Senior Caucus many times since coming to Group Health and enjoys the opportunity to share his knowledge and his appreciation of seniors who generously participate in ACT and other research at KPWHRI.
Chris Fordyce, retired MD and Senior Caucus chair will be announcing the new 2023-24 Board of Directors of the Senior Caucus along with general announcements about exciting new programs going forward. Chris will also be giving an important COVID coverage update.
This webinar will be recorded for those unable to attend. Thank you.
Have you noticed a lot of people turning 90 lately?
OK, maybe not a lot. But President Biden, 80, is saying he plans to run for re-election in 2024. His fans are going to be super-aware of anything that suggests he isn’t all that old.
I was thinking about this when I got invited to a 90th-birthday party recently — shortly after I went to a lunch a friend threw to celebrate her 95th. Kinda wondered if I was looking at a new trend.
Yeah, the really-truly-older cadre is zooming — thanks, boomers! The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that by 2060, the number of people 85-plus will have tripled compared with 2017 and the country will have half a million centenarians.
Today we’re not going to discuss the social-support angle; obviously, many of these folks will need a lot of care. Or the fact that while the old are getting older, overall life expectancy in America has actually been dropping, thanks to guns, drugs and Covid.
Now we’re just going to focus on what all these post-90s mean to the way we view the world. Is Biden being 80-plus a big deal when Gloria Steinem just had a party to celebrate her 89th?
“Ninety is the new 60,” declared Muriel Fox, one of the founders of the modern women’s movement. “I’ve got several great friends in their 100s.” Fox recently invited some pals to her turning-95 luncheon, and I’m really liking the idea that being a feminist pioneer can add decades to your life span.
Steinem, who’s off celebrating 89 with a tour of Zambia, is feeling mellow, too. “I’m very conscious that I’m already past the average life expectancy,” she told me via email. “Yet also past many worries about job, family, saving for the future — this is the future!”
Of course, not everybody’s so enthusiastic about hitting markers that make our president look youthful. “It’s something I don’t think about,” said the composer John Kander, who, at 96, is currently busy publicizing “New York, New York,” his new Broadway musical.
The people who really need to get their heads around the age thing are younger. It’s clearly dumb to treat the … older as a doddering population of great-great-grandparents. People will just start wondering whether you’re the one who’s out of it.
For instance, the other day the Republican speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, pressed his demands for a negotiation with Biden on the budget by sniping, “I would bring lunch to the White House. I would make it soft food, if that’s what he wants.” Now, McCarthy is a mere 58, but this kind of thing is just going to encourage people to compare his pathetic performance as speaker with that of his predecessor Nancy Pelosi, who held the post until this January, when she was 82.
None of this is to argue that Biden’s plan to run for re-election (announcement coming — soonish!) shouldn’t lead to serious discussion about age. He’d be 86 when a second term ended. Hard to think of a whole lot of 86-year-old world leaders who are currently on the job. Well, Pope Francis. King Harald V of Norway. And if we’re saluting the 90-somethings, we have to add President Paul Biya of Cameroon.
Biden was already the oldest president ever elected when he came into office at 78. Second oldest was, um, Donald Trump at 70.
I would love to cite a list of really great presidents who served in their 70s, but alas, the third oldest at the time of his election was Ronald Reagan, 69, who was eventually rumored to have Alzheimer’s, followed by William Henry Harrison, 68, who died a month into his term.
Dwight Eisenhower, who served from age 62 to 70, starting in the 1950s, was one of the oldest presidents in office. That was back “when 62 was considered really ancient,” said the presidential historian Michael Beschloss.
And Ike seemed older — while he was in the White House, he suffered from a heart attack and a stroke. “It’s never been age; it’s always been illness,” Beschloss said.
Yeah, the number doesn’t matter nearly as much as the condition. And how you appear to the outside world. My friend who had the recent 90th-birthday party doesn’t want to be quoted by name because he’s doing a lot of very high-end, action-packed projects and wants the folks he’s working with to judge him by what he does, not the calendar.
But said friend is an expert on making things look good on camera, and he complained that Biden is being “very, very badly served” by handlers who have him slowly walking onstage when he’s about to give an address. The president, he noted, doesn’t exactly “spring to the podium. Why don’t they just have him sitting at a desk like — hello — F.D.R.?”
Still, Biden on a bike looks a lot better than Trump on a golf course. We will not discuss or even contemplate Trump on a bicycle.
With the two of them competing to be president in their 80s, there does seem to be a real opening for somebody who’s ambitious and younger. Like, say, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, who is 44.
“I’m deeply worried about where a significant part of our population is when it comes to trust with our media and what that lack of trust means for our government, our democracy, who we are as a… (Greg Gilbert / The Seattle Times, 2022)More
Helping save local journalism in Washington state is a priority for Attorney General Bob Ferguson.
That’s partly why he joined eight other state attorneys general and the U.S. Department of Justice in an epic antitrust case, alleging that Google monopolizes online advertising technology.
It’s also why Ferguson joined state legislators in proposing a tax break to help newspapers sustain operations and preserve jobs. He backed Senate Bill 5199, which would give publishers a 10-year exemption from business and occupation taxes.
Of course this could help Ferguson pursue newspaper endorsements if he runs for governor, as expected, in 2024.
But like many lawyers, Ferguson appreciates the essential role of the press in a constitutional democracy. He worries that the state and nation are harmed by the erosion of local news coverage and trust in media.
“I’m deeply worried about where a significant part of our population is when it comes to trust with our media and what that lack of trust means for our government, our democracy, who we are as a people,” he said. “I’m really concerned.”
By Emily Largent, Andrew Peterson and Jason Karlawish in the NYT
Drs. Largent and Karlawish are senior fellows at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, where they are also professors at the Perelman School of Medicine. Dr. Peterson is an assistant professor at the George Mason University Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy.
Conservative Texans and liberal Californians disagree on much in politics. But legislators in both states agree on a new approach to giving people with cognitive impairments a greater chance for self-determination. It’s called supported decision-making, and it is shaping up to be the most consequential change in the care of older people and others with limitations in mental functioning since the rise of advance care directives in the 1990s.
The difference between guardianship, the traditional way to help those with such impairments, and supported decision-making is analogous to the difference between a dictatorship and self-rule. Unlike guardianship, which creates an all-powerful guardian and strips the subject of the right to make decisions, in supported decision-making, the individual retains final control over key decisions. That person enlists one or more trusted others, such as family members or close friends, to aid him in making decisions. The supporters are there only to assist.
The National Council on Disability rightfully describes this approach as “the most promising and comprehensive alternative to guardianship.” More support for these life-affirming arrangements is needed.
Britney Spears’s public efforts to end the nearly 14-year guardianship she was under cast a light on problems with the arrangement that too often remain in the shadows. In seeking to end her guardianship, Ms. Spears testified in court: “I truly believe this conservatorship is abusive. I don’t feel like I can live a full life.” A judge in Los Angeles concluded in 2021 that the guardianship was no longer needed and terminated it.
Of course, some people can’t make decisions even with support. They may be suffering from the effects of a severe traumatic brain injury or late-stage dementia. For them, guardianship remains necessary. But many others with limitations don’t entirely lack the ability to make their own decisions. Forcing them to surrender authority to a guardian strips away their self-determination and dignity and could leave them prone to abuse.
In 2015, Texas became the first state to recognize supported decision-making. And last fall, California joined Texas and at least 13 other states and the District of Columbia in establishing comprehensive legal frameworks for these arrangements. Several more states require that such agreements be considered before a guardian is appointed. Legislation has previously been introduced in states as varied as Massachusetts, Oregon, New Mexico and West Virginia.
At the federal level, the Senate Special Committee on Aging held a hearing last week on supported decision-making and other less restrictive alternatives to guardianship. Committee members from both parties applauded states backing supported decision-making innovation, and Senator Bob Casey, the committee chairman, said he planned to introduce legislation that would require courts to consider supported decision making and other approaches for people who need help managing their lives.
In an Easter message highlighting hope, Pope Francis on Sunday invoked prayers for both the Ukrainian and Russian people, praised nations that welcome refugees, and called on Israelis and Palestinians wracked by the latest surge in deadly violence to forge a “climate of trust.”
Francis, along with dozens of prelates and tens of thousands of faithful, marked Christianity’s most joyful day with Mass in a flower-adorned St. Peter’s Square. Easter proclaims the Christian belief that Jesus rose from the dead after crucifixion.
The 86-year-old pontiff topped the celebration with a traditional speech about troubled places in the world. Encouraging “trust among individuals, peoples and nations,” Francis said the joyful expression of Easter “illumines the darkness and gloom in which, all too often, our world finds itself enveloped.”
The pope’s Easter message is known by its Latin name, ”Urbi et Orbi,” which means “to the city and the world.”
Since Russia invaded neighboring Ukraine in February 2022, Francis has repeatedly called for the fighting to end and sought prayers for the “martyred” Ukrainian people.
Ukrainian diplomats have complained that he hasn’t come down hard enough in his statements on Russia and particularly Russian President Vladimir Putin as the Vatican tries to avoid alienating Russia.
“Help the beloved Ukrainian people on their journey toward peace, and shed the light of Easter upon the people of Russia,” Francis implored God in his Easter speech, which he delivered while sitting in a chair on the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica facing the square. ”Comfort the wounded and all those who have lost loved ones because of the war, and grant that prisoners may return safe and sound to their families.”
He urged the international community to work to end the war in Ukraine and “all conflict and bloodshed in the world, beginning with Syria, which still awaits peace.” Francis also prayed for those who lost loved ones in an earthquake that struck Syria and Turkey two months ago, claiming tens of thousands of lives.
With a renewal in deadly violence affecting both Israelis and Palestinians in recent days, Francis called for a “resumption of dialogue, in a climate of trust and reciprocal respect, between Israelis and Palestinians, so that peace may reign in the Holy City and in the entire region,’’ a reference to Jerusalem.
But Francis also noted progress on some fronts.
“Let us rejoice at the concrete signs of hope that reach us from so many countries, beginning with those that offers assistance and welcome to all fleeing war and poverty,” he said, without naming any particular nations.
How to care for asylum-seekers, migrants and refugees, and whether to allow them entrance, is a raging political and social debate in much of Europe, as well as in the United States and elsewhere.
The bloody conflicts cited by Francis contrasted with a riot of bright colors lent by orange-red tulips, yellow sprays of forsythia and daffodils, hyacinths and other colorful seasonal flowers that decorated St. Peter’s Square. The blooms were trucked in from the Netherlands and set up in planters to decorate the Vatican square.
Some 45,000 people had gathered by the start of the mid-morning Mass, according to Vatican security services, but the crowd swelled to some 100,00 ahead of the noon appointment for the pontiff’s speech from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica overlooking the square.
A canopy on the edge of steps on the square sheltered the pontiff, who was back in the public eye 12 hours after an Easter vigil ceremony in St. Peter’s Basilica the night before.
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A small local publishing house is thriving and growing–now expanding into children’s books and poetry. The following is an update from the publisher and my friend, Greg Shaw. It’s heartening to see former KUOW host Steve Sher authoring “The Moon Bear.”
Happy spring, Clyde Hill Publishing insiders! Please share, if you care to…
April will always recall for me my sophomore English literature teacher.
In her classroom, just one block north of the Dallas city limits, I was introduced to Chaucer and his prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
We were asked to do something unthinkable today – to memorize it – and perhaps
Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote, The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licóur Of which vertú engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
A language nerd, I practiced the lines on my bed in a small apartment. I spoke first with a Texas accent, then Irish, Scottish, British, and (for fun) Russian.
24 years later, I am so proud of our poetry imprint, Pulley Press, and of our multi-faceted Clyde Hill important and writing collaborations.
Stay tuned for a number of surprising new collections and books in the year ahead.
Happy spring!
Greg
Clyde Hill Publishing Updates First, we are happy to announce our new website is live! With an “interactive bookshelf” style home page you can now click on each title we’ve ever worked on and 1) learn more about that title, and 2) get links on where to purchase the title online. We’ve also added three pages sharing details about our three offerings, writing collaborations, and two separate pages for our imprints, Clyde Hill and Pulley Press.
Frances, our Pulley Press Editor, will soon embark on a trip to meet with poets across the US, including participating in the New Orleans Book Festival, and spending time in Louisiana, Alabama, and Missouri.
Pulley Press is accepting submissions from poets in rural places with full-length poetry books available for publication. Click here to learn more about our poetry imprint and review the submission guidelines. If you know of writers from rural areas sharing untold stories through poetry, please send them the submissions link.
Ready to explore the new site and everything we offer? Click here to get started. We’re also thrilled to congratulate authors Daniel R. Levitt and Mark Armour on their book, Intentional Balk, being awarded the 2023 Dr. Harold and Dorothy Seymour Medal, which honors the best book of baseball history or biography published during the preceding calendar year. Learn more about the book and buy your copy here. Great job, Dan and Mark! Finally, please welcome our first-ever children’s book, The Moon Bear. The Moon Bear marks the literary debut of Seattle’s respected and long-time Public Radio host Steve Scher, who built a reputation for giving guests the space to present their ideas with nuance. Scher brings a similar sensitivity, and an ear for poetic language, to his newest project. Gwen and her friend the Moon Bear popped into Scher’s mind unbidden, like a mysterious noise in the night, he says. “Their voices sang to me, whispered to me and there they were.”
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Every four years, ADS and more than 600 other Area Agencies on Aging throughout the United States develop an Area Plan that charts the course each agency will follow to address emerging needs, while also working to create age-friendly communities. The Area Plan describes the function of ADS, presents relevant demographic trends for King County, and outlines major goals and objectives for addressing trends, issues, and needs. To support development of the Area Plan for 2024–2027, ADS is examining changing trends impacting older adults and people with disabilities, and inviting community input on goals and objectives.
“We listen and we form strong bonds with the community,” said ADS Director Mary Mitchell. “We have a very strong interest in racial equity. People of color should not experience disparities. To that end, we particularly want to hear from older people, adults with disabilities, and caregivers in BIPOC communities.”
ADS has posted a 2023 Community Engagement Survey online at bit.ly/40HJDv6. The deadline for completion is Friday, April 21.
Thanks to Bob P. who notes, “Almond Roca and Mountain Bars were two of my favorites when I was growing up in San Francisco. Now, it’s nice to discover that I’ve ended up in Seattle where those two wonderful candies originated!”
n the spring of 1923, Tacoma confectioner Harry Brown (ca. 1893-1960) creates a butter-crunch toffee enrobed in milk chocolate and then encrusted with chopped almonds. Pleased that the almond coating makes the candy less messy to consume than ordinary chocolate-coated toffee, Brown hands out samples to many Tacoma residents, including Tacoma Public Library librarian Jacqueline Noel (ca. 1881-1964). Asked what the new confection should be called, Noel dubs the candy Almond Roca.
Brown & Haley
Harry Brown was a partner in the Tacoma candy company Brown & Haley. Company lore holds that Jacqueline Noel chose the components of the candy’s name because its relatively hard crunch was somewhat rock-like. At the time, many almonds were imported from Spain and “roca” is a Spanish word for rock.
Harry L. Brown and Jonathan Clifford Haley (ca. 1885-1954) became acquainted at church in 1908. At the time, Brown owned a candy store and Haley was a sales representative for the Schilling spice company. The pair began working toward creating a business together in 1912, and incorporated the business as Oriole Candy Company, the predecessor to Brown & Haley, in 1914. Brown & Haley observes 1912 as the founding date of the company. By 1916, Brown & Haley was producing a confection called the Mount Tacoma Bar (later renamed the Mountain Bar), a log of vanilla fondant dipped in chocolate. (Fondant is a creamy candy made by cooking sugar, liquid, flavoring, and sometimes corn syrup and an acid such as vinegar or lemon juice, until it reaches 238-240 degrees Fahrenheit.) During World War I, Mount Tacoma bars and other Brown & Haley confections became popular with soldiers stationed at Camp Lewis (now Joint Base Lewis-McChord) not far from the company’s location in Tacoma.
Last week,3 under history’s first Latin American pontiff, the Vatican development and education offices renounced the Doctrine of Discovery1. This papal doctrine was used to justify colonization in the name of Christianity and came to be part of US and international law.
In 1863 Lincoln spoke the words: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on the continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men as created equal. Twenty-nine years earlierChief Justice John Marshall ruled that the European rights of discovery had been transferred to the United States. (Macintosh vs Johnson2). The right of discovery as defined by a Papal Edict of 14933 stated that the barbarous nations be overthrown, their peoples subjugated and brought to the faith”.
Many settler communities supported by the US Army not only displaced the Indians, but destroyed their crops, and sought to eradicate them and their culture. These actions and the policies that sustained them for 200 years meet the United Nations definition of genocide. Thus, the United States which began as 13 colonies transformed itself into a colonizer – a colonial power akin to Great Britain, Spain, France and Portugal.
James Baldwin wrote: “The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it…history is present in all that we do. Therefore, it is important:
–that we acknowledge that we each live and work on lands that have been inhabited since time immemorial by the Nations and Tribes of many Native American peoples;
–that we understand that these lands sustained them for thousands of years, nurtured their diverse cultures, are the final resting places of their ancestors;
–and that we recognize that today many indigenous peoples thrive in our communities, alive and strong!
Such a land acknowledgement is a small but important step toward revising our shared understanding of our national history.
Image caption,Almost 31,000 women living in London are involved in a club tackling loneliness
By Jess Warren – BBC News
Almost 20,000 women living in London have joined a club tackling loneliness since pandemic restrictions ended.
Holly Cooke founded The London Lonely Girls Club on Facebook in 2018 after moving to the city from Stoke-on-Trent.
She said the club had 10,000 members at the start of 2022, and had “grown spectacularly” in the last year to almost 31,000 people.
“More people have come back to London and are wanting that connection,” she said.
“London is so big, it leaves a lot of space for loneliness.”
The 26-year-old from north-east London moved in with family friends when she first arrived in the capital, and struggled to meet people her own age.
“I Googled how to make friends in London,” she said.
Image caption,Holly Cooke founded The London Lonely Girls Club in 2018
Ms Cooke said that meeting people one-on-one via apps such as Bumble BFF felt “intense and scary”.
“I thought ‘What if you could get two, three or four of you together?’,” she said.
In response, Ms Cook launched her Facebook group.
“Loneliness is a difficult one,” she said. “It doesn’t matter where you live.
“People feel it in so many different ways. London is so transient. Some just moved here; others have been here their whole life.”
She and two volunteers organise between four and six events each month, which have previously included picnics, brunches, board game and cocktail nights.
Events are open to members of all ages, but are popular among young women.
One in 12 Londoners are affected by severe loneliness, according to a report published in December.
The research was carried out by the Campaign to End Loneliness with What Works Centre for Wellbeing and the Neighbourly Lab on behalf of the Greater London Authority.
It found that the pandemic was likely to have exacerbated loneliness further, with 700,000 people surveyed feeling lonely “most”‘ or “all of the time”.
Image caption,Puppy yoga is among the events organised by the club
Among young people, 12% of those surveyed said they experienced severe loneliness, with people going through life changes or new to London more likely to be impacted.
It also found that poverty, prejudice and disability could increase the risk of social isolation.
Ms Cooke said her club provided a “safe environment” for people to meet face-to-face.
“Meet-ups are getting booked up in five minutes,” she said. “Our first meet-up post Covid sold out in two minutes.
“It’s been a crazy journey. I started it because I just wanted to make some friends.”
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MADISON, Wis. – Turnout in Wisconsin’s hotly contest Supreme Court race broke the previous record high set for spring elections that don’t coincide with a presidential primary.
Turnout had already surpassed 36% of the voting-age population, with more than 10% of votes yet to be counted. The previous high was 34% set in the 2011 race won by Justice David Prosser that came in the heat of the Act 10 union rights debate.
This year’s race, won by Democratic-backed candidate Janet Protasiewicz, was the most expensive race for a state Supreme Court in U.S. history, more than tripling the previous high of $15 million set in 2004 in Illinois.
Protasiewicz, a Milwaukee County circuit judge, defeated Republican-backed Dan Kelly, a former justice who also lost in 2020. Her win means that liberal justices will control the court for at least the next two years, starting in August.
Protasiewicz and her backers made the race largely a referendum on abortion rights.
More than 1.7 million people cast ballots in the race this year, besting the 1.6 million that cast ballots in the 2020 race when there was also a presidential primary. Turnout that year was 35%.
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from Put B: The KP Senior Caucus is open to anyone who wants to Zoom in. The speaker and the topic described below might be of interest to a good many Skyline residents.
Eric B Larson, MD, MPH, with colleagues from University of Washington and Group Health received a demonstration grant from the National Institutes of Health to establish a model Alzheimer’s disease registry in 1986. This morphed into the landmark Adult Changes in Thought study with the establishment of the initial cohort of 2581 randomly selected volunteers who joined the study 1994-96. Larson, a general internist and eventually professor of medicine at University of Washington.
He came to Seattle as a UW fellow in 1975 after training in Boston at Harvard Medical School. He was Medical Director at UWMC and Associated Dean for clinical affairs 1989-2002 before moving to Group Health in 2002 to lead the Center for Health Studies. He also believed in the tremendous scientific potential of the ACT study if it could achieve continuous funding over many years. At Group Health /Kaiser Permanente Washington he eventually became the Executive Director of the Research Institute and Vice President for Research and Health Innovation. He recently retired from KPW, July 2002, and continues to work part time from his position in UW’s Department of Medicine as a Professor of Medicine.
Dr. Larson’s presentation will provide an overview of the ACT study, the major expansion of funding for ACT and its related studies, and highlights in how our understanding of the aging brain and conditions like Alzheimer’s Disease has changed and will likely change even more from ongoing studies. He will highlight how what we know about the aging brain is relevant to everyday life of older adults including their medical care. He has spoken to the Senior Caucus many times since coming to Group Health and enjoys the opportunity to share his knowledge and his appreciation of seniors who generously participate in ACT and other research at KPWHRI.
Top level administrators have decided in the interest of transparency to forgo sending out opaque memos this week. Instead a number of new initiatives will take place with small focus groups interacting with leadership, such as:
Resident satisfaction surveys with follow up action items
Promoting ease of dining reservations for singles
Single menu nights in the CDR with open seating (monthly?)
Allowing resident-only early morning fitness center access
Bringing life into the empty hallways in the Terraces
Creating more meeting space access and ease of scheduling
Extending allowable distances for our Skyline drivers
Promoting “walk-around” management style
PS1: Happy April first
PS2: Those who have lived here for some time might note that the above “initiatives” are not new but simply are an attempt to go back in time!
A lifelong passion for creative aging The Frye Art Museum’s quarterly blog post features UW Medicine’s Kris Rhoads, PhD. He talks about his passion for creative aging and connection with the Frye, the Memory and Brain Wellness Center, and the Memory Hub. Kris Rhoads is a neuropsychologist at the UW MBWC and ADRC. Read more (Frye Art Museum)
“I believe the creative spirit and drive in older adulthood is a wonderful opportunity to engage with the “what is.” That means, how are you right now – regardless of previous abilities – simply being present and connecting in that space, independent of cognitive functions or other capabilities.”
What you need to know about COVID and the brain UW Alzheimer’s researcher Elizabeth Rhea, PhD, explains her lab’s finding that brain inflammation is the source of neurological symptoms of long COVID – and how to protect yourself. This research was made possible, in part, by funding from the UW ADRC. Watch (King5)
Listen in: MBWC’s Suman Jayadev featured in the Science Friday Podcast: Rethinking The Future Of Dementia Care Science Friday on NPR recently featured dementia care. Ira Flatow talks with Dr. Suman Jayadev, a neurogeneticist at the University of Washington School of Medicine, about the biology of Alzheimer’s and treatments. Then, Ira speaks with Dr. Tia Powell, the director of the Montefiore-Einstein Center for Bioethics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, as well as Dr. Nathaniel Chin, a geriatrician and assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin. Listen!
In Case You Missed It! You can watch the entire Brain Awareness Week 2023 webinar held at the Allen Institute: Learn about how physicians diagnose and treat Alzheimer’s disease and current research on neuropathology and cell types in health and disease. Watch Presenters: Jeanelle Ariza Torres (UW), Kimiko Domoto-Reilly, MD (UW MBWC), Caitlin Latimer, MD, PhD (UW ADRC), Kyle Travaglini, PhD (Allen Inst.), Victoria Rachleff (UW) .
Related Reading: So You Want to Donate Your Brain to Science: Monte Strohl, MBWC patient, donated his brain to research after his death, hoping to fuel science and help others with neurodegenerative conditions. (Allen Institute)
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