I haven't had the chance to watch this yet, but wanted to tag it for future viewing. All of the health care changes in the pipeline are so confusing. I hope this sheds some light on one of the changes!
The Health and Human Services Department has until October 2012 to finalize plans for a new government-run, long-term care program called the CLASS Act. In the January edition of the Program on Retirement Policy video series, Howard Gleckman discusses the rationale behind the program’s creation, the implementation and political challenges it faces, and ultimately the tough choices facing potential long-term care consumers.
http://www.urban.org/retirement_policy/url.cfm?ID=500204
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Presentation on Control Beliefs
This is a presentation I came across recently about control beliefs. It reviews Seligman's shock treatment of dogs and Rodin / Langer's work about control in nursing homes. I'm a neophyte when it comes to psychology and found this presentation, even without its accompanying text / speech, to explain a bit more about control beliefs.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Dancing Under the Gallows
This documentary short features a remarkable piano player. I don't want to ruin the things that are revealed, so I'll avoid further details except to say that the film is about Alice Herz-Sommer. Here's the link to the movie's website.
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Must See: Ken Dychtwald's Keynote Address at the 2010 ASA/NCOA Conference
Ken Dychtwald covers so much important territory in this keynote address at the June, 2010 American Society on Aging / National Council on Aging joint conference. If you're interested in being alive over the next century, regardless of how you feel about aging, older adults or anything else, you have a vested interest in this speech. Dychtwald is an engaging speaker and this 15 minutes flies by.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
New Book on the Anti-Aging Industry: Selling the Fountain of Youth
I'm very excited to get my hands on a copy of Selling the Fountain of Youth and see what Arlene Weintraub has to contribute to the subject of the anti-aging industry. I'm not so concerned about the idea of pursuing beauty from a healthful perspective. I don't think it's wrong to want to maintain health and a healthy appearance throughout life, but a line does get crossed where people seem to confuse "health" with "youth." If we don't have the experience of watching the generations in front of us age naturally, how can we embrace our own aging process?
Friday, September 10, 2010
Youth Knows No Pain: A Look at the Anti-Aging Beauty Industry
This documentary, Youth Knows No Pain, examines our fear of aging from the perspective of the 60 billion dollar a year anti-aging beauty industry.
I haven't had the chance to see the documentary in full, but am eagerly awaiting the chance! One of the facts revealed in the film was how much money the filmmaker spent on just dying the gray out of her hair, which seems financially untenable! I have a friend with early gray hair who is considering foregoing her $200 / month hair coloring costs and letting it all go grey. On the one hand, I celebrate this idea of embracing her true beauty (she's one who is fortunate to have a gorgeous grey!). The trick is that, unlike a woman in her 20's with grey hair who will be perceived as and treated as a uniquely young woman with silver hair, my friend is in her mid-thirties and will instantly age "up" into her 40's. The concern I have about this is that, after reading numerous studies about how our self-perception shifts with the way others treat us, the biases that are directed at older women, and the physiological outcomes of our internalized ageism, her self-concept may be altered in a way that could impact her healthful aging process. I know it seems like a stretch, an exaggeration of the potential physical harms of ageism, but who knows where these micro-inequities start and what true impact they have?
I haven't had the chance to see the documentary in full, but am eagerly awaiting the chance! One of the facts revealed in the film was how much money the filmmaker spent on just dying the gray out of her hair, which seems financially untenable! I have a friend with early gray hair who is considering foregoing her $200 / month hair coloring costs and letting it all go grey. On the one hand, I celebrate this idea of embracing her true beauty (she's one who is fortunate to have a gorgeous grey!). The trick is that, unlike a woman in her 20's with grey hair who will be perceived as and treated as a uniquely young woman with silver hair, my friend is in her mid-thirties and will instantly age "up" into her 40's. The concern I have about this is that, after reading numerous studies about how our self-perception shifts with the way others treat us, the biases that are directed at older women, and the physiological outcomes of our internalized ageism, her self-concept may be altered in a way that could impact her healthful aging process. I know it seems like a stretch, an exaggeration of the potential physical harms of ageism, but who knows where these micro-inequities start and what true impact they have?
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Electric Chairs - A Short Film
This is a charming short film from a series on Hulu called "The Art of Seduction." The film is entitled "Electric Chairs," and it turns an eye on elder romance and connection.
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