Deep Age and Life's Leftovers |
Thursday Nov 15 2007
I reconnected with an old friend this week online—Dr. Laurie Ford. She has just started a new blog, Chute Me Through Deep Age.
It has what seems to be a fairly unique perspective on a theme I had
not thought too much about, but which makes a lot of sense. She has
focused on the breakdowns associated with late-life aging—specifically,
any of the dozens of conditions that can either severely handicap us
including everything from mobility problems and incontinence to the
nasties of dementia and Alzheimer’s. Anything that requires we enter a
nursing home can sideline us, as well as a wide range of potential
accidents. Serene Ambition has been and continues be about transforming our
cultural conversation from aging—and even late-life aging—being about
loss and decline to being about possibility. This isn’t an optimistic
forecast: it is a commitment.[Read More]
Written by Jim Selman at Fearless Aging
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