Yes, even the Queen of England has embraced technology! Click here to learn more.
Did you know that the royal family also has a Facebook Page? Click here to stay up-to-date, but you’ll need to join Facebook if you want to comment on the posts.
And why not give that a try so you can enjoy commenting on the EngAGE Page on Facebook, too? Click here to see it.
The Clarence Johnston Band entertain in the BSAC courtyard at the EngAGE in Creativity event in April.
Clarence Johnston, BSAC resident and well-known jazz drummer with over fifty years of professional experience, was interviewed recently by Laura Swett, a volunteer with the National Center for Creative Aging. One observation:
“Age is not in my mind at all. I’m a professional musician. All I think of is the next day.”
Click here to read more on the National Center for Creative Aging Blog.
An article in the New York Times asks this trick question:
Is it easier to remember a new fact if it appears in normal type, like this, or in big, bold letters, LIKE THIS?
The answer is neither. Font size has no effect on memory, even though most people assume that bigger is better. But font style does.
Read the entire article here and learn how to enhance . . . how you learn!
EngAGE founder and Executive Director Tim Carpenter will be speaking at “TEDx SoCal: Thriving” in Long Beach, CA, on Saturday, July 16, 2011. This day-long event explores how communities, organizations, and individuals can thrive mentally, physically, and artistically. Click here to buy tickets to this exciting event!
Not familiar with TED? TED is a nonprofit devoted to “Ideas Worth Spreading.” It started in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology,
Entertainment, Design. The annual TED conferences in Long Beach/Palm Springs and Edinburgh, UK, bring together the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives — in 18 minutes or less! Learn more about TED and TEDx events by clicking here. Watch a huge selection of riveting TED Talks here.
The resident volunteers at Villa Anaheim are busy bagging food from the Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County for distribution to many residents. Antoinette, Barbara, Mae, Jeanette, Betty and Sally come together twice monthly and do their thing!
Antoinette and Barbara
Mae
Jeanette
Betty
Sally exclaimed that she was “too busy to be bothered with a picture today!”
Contributed by Nancy Goodhart
Experience Talks will be pre-empted tomorrow for a pledge drive. You can use this opportunity to contribute to KPFK-FM, your listener-sponsored public radio station. Just click here to go to the KPFK website for more information. You can listen to previously broadcast episodes of Experience Talks on our website: click here!
An estimated one to five percent of the general population suffers from compulsive hoarding. Hoarders are likely to be depressed or have anxiety or other social disorders, and the problem gets worse with age. In the case of older people, the situation is often complicated by additional serious physical and psychiatric conditions. An intervention in which a massive clean-up is done in a hoarder’s home doesn’t solve the problem and the effort will likely lead to anger and distrust in the future. However, Christiana Bratiotis, director of the Hoarding Research Project at the Boston University School of Social Work, says cognitive behavioral therapy can help.
Click here to read an informative post on Shots, the NPR Health Blog. Also, although a diagnosis of obsessive/compulsive behavior is now being challenged as the explanation for hoarding behavior, the International OCD Foundation offers a very useful site devoted to the problem. Click here for information.
