ProAging Information Network

Mark your calendars for the first ProAging meeting of 2010

Date: Friday March 19, 2010

Time: 8:30 - 10ish

Location: Brightwood Center

515 Brightfield Rd.

Lutherville, MD 21903

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Description: FREE event! Join other senior-serving professionals for the best networking and education program in the Baltimore region! The March event will celebrate the good work social workers do to help elders and their families. All Social Workers will be recognized, all professions are encouraged to attend.

 

Contact: Please RSVP

410-581-6873

rsvp@proaging.com

http://proaging.wufoo.com/forms/proaging-rsvp-form/ 

 

Research has found that off-the-shelf video games have the potential to help seniors age more gracefully, keeping their minds sharp and responsive through game play. "There’s a growing body of evidence that suggests playing video games actually can improve older adults’ reflexes, processing speed, memory, attention skills and spatial abilities," said Jason Allaire, an associate professor of psychology at North Carolina State University and co-director of its Gains Through Gaming Lab.

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Deborah Kotz writes an thought provoking article in US News and World Report that shares some expert perspective on how retirement might be vastly different in the future. Great quotes like this one from Robert Butler, "Our aging society, like climate change, is an inconvenient truth"

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A growing group of aging motorcyclists taking up trikes: three-wheeled motorcycles that provide the stability and nearly all the comforts of a car while still allowing riders to feel the wind in their face.

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A series of independently conducted studies on the effects of exercise in healthy older adults, published Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine, confirms that logging time at the gym not only helps maintain good health, but may even prevent the onset of chronic diseases, such as heart disease, osteoarthritis and dementia.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1956619,00.html?xid=rss-topstories#ixzz0dgABjs4p

 

Last year Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Maryland opened an innovative Seniors Emergency Room, looks like the concept is spreading to other parts of the country. Click here for a press release about a similar program at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in New Jersey.

The Pro Bono Counseling Project presents the 14th Annual Mary Douglas Wells Speakers Forum:  "Filling the Empty Place:  Understanding Compulsive Hoarding & Similar OCD Behaviors,"  April 16, 2010, 8:30 - 4:00 at the Sheppard Pratt Conference Center in Towson. Featured speakers seen on the recent A&E Television Special, "Hoarders." For more information or to register, call 410-323-5800 or 301-805-8191, or go to www.probonocounseling.org

The John Mackey Award for Excellence in Dementia Care honors NFL hero John Mackey and is administered by the Johns Hopkins Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neuropsychiatry. The goal of this award is to recognize individuals whose work has made substantial contributions to Dementia Care, with a national or international impact..

Arnold Eppel, the former director of the Baltimore County Department of Aging and currently the executive director of Atrium Village is recognized for his "continued perseverance and unfaltering dedication to Alzheimer’s care related initiatives. His longstanding and ongoing commitment to enhancing the lives of people with memory impairment transcends the aging realms. Under his leadership, the Baltimore County Department of Aging drew national recognition for its innovative programming. The successful website “Taking Care of Mom and Dad” was novel and proved that the internet was an effective medium for outreach. Now considered a standard approach, the use of the internet to disseminate information to the older adult community was pioneering."

MONICA RUEHLING shares some good solutions for thrust into the role of caregiver often allows little time for preparation.

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Two new studies provide more evidence that regular aerobic exercise not only staves off the problems with thinking and memory that often come with age, but it can actually help turn back the clock on brain aging.

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