Musing Exploring Sharing Learning Connecting Expanding One’s Thinking These were some of the words a group of participants in AHWGO’s first strategy session used to describe what they thought the purpose of our get-togethers were. Multidisciplinary ...
Redwing Keyssar who recently spoke at AHWGO set out early in her life to assist people in this transformation. Throughout these years she has kept a journal. Those stories and reflections are now part of her insightful book “Last Act of Kindness”. She continues to be...
I recently had the opportunity to catch a couple of films that were presented as part of the Legacy Film Series Film Festival on Aging, curated by director Sheila Malkind. As a sometime choreographer myself, I was compelled to watch the series of films that were most...
For this post I’d like to share a couple of interesting elder-related items situated not-so-typically: a video contest and a fashion blog. Norwegian electronic group Royksopp just held a video contest for their new album, Senior. The winning video, I’m...
We have been slow in sharing this, partly because we could not believe our luck in having such a smooth transition between Natasha Boissier, the co-founder of the group, who gave birth to a daughter last summer and Donna Schempp as our new co-organizer. It is great...
None of us can escape from the ageist imagery and messages that seem to be an ingrained part of our culture. We are constantly being sold “age-reversing” creams and serums, “age-defying” make-ups, and “anti-aging” superfoods....
