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Welcome to the Roster - Lori Grinker - Award Winning International Photographer / Author
Please welcome Lori Grinker to the Sage Stream roster.
During a photojournalism class at Parson’s School of Design, Lori Grinker began her photography career in earnest when her term project photographing young boxers – and a 13- year-old Mike Tyson – in Catskill, New York, was published in Inside Sports magazine.
Grinker left college when editorial assignments began to take her around the globe. Her work has garnered many honors and awards and has been published around the world and exhibited in solo and group shows. Her newest work, All the Little Things employs still life and portrait photography to explore memory, loss and love. She is currently working on her first feature documentary film, The Charlie Show. See her roster page here.
‘I’m trying to keep everyone walking’: 102-year-old leads exercise class 4 times a week
WMTV - Watch the segment. Great and inspirational.
For Older Americans, the Pandemic Is Not Over
NYT - A must read from my friend Paula Span. In nursing homes, where the early pandemic proved so devastating, only 52 percent of residents and 23 percent of staff members were up-to-date on vaccinations last month.
And telling - In Hillsboro, Ore., Billie Erwin, 75, feels particularly vulnerable because she has Type 1 diabetes. She and her husband have foregone concerts and theater performances, indoor restaurant meals with friends, moviegoing and volunteering. Her book group fell apart.
Observation - So even healthy seniors are retreating inside. Sage Stream to the rescue!
Online storytelling improved people with dementia’s quality of life during Covid-19 lockdowns
NewsWise - Participants in the study reported positive impacts on their mood and energy levels, and on several cognitive functions, including observational abilities, concentration levels, motivation, and memory. There was also an increased appreciation of their own resilient capacities, which were also recognised by the participants’ care partners. According to the study, this appreciation and recognition inspired tranquillity, confidence and pride, which in turn led to greater motivation, participation and agency in the storytelling sessions.
Researchers ID 8 social factors that lead to early death in seniors
McKnight’s - The researchers studied 8,250 older adults ages 65 and older over a four-year period. At the end of the four-year study period, 22% of those individuals had died. Based on 183 possible predictors, the researchers developed a Social Frailty Index including age, gender and eight social factors that contributed to early death: poor neighborhood cleanliness, low perceived control over financial situation, meeting with children less than yearly, not working for pay, not active with children, not volunteering, feeling isolated, and being treated with less courtesy or respect.
How Music Can Help with Parkinson’s Symptoms
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WHEN PARENTS LIVE SEPARATELY IN ASSISTED LIVING: HOW TO HELP THEM COPE
Daily Caring - As older adult couples age, many end up needing different levels of care. Worsening health conditions often force couples to live separately.
For those who have been together for decades, suddenly being without their life partner can be devastating.
Want to live a longer life? Try eating like a centenarian.
WAPO - There’s no way to guarantee that you’ll live to be 100. But we can learn a lot from studying the eating habits of the world’s centenarians.
Researchers have identified five places in the world where people have exceptionally long life expectancies — frequently living to 100 or beyond. These areas, called “Blue Zones,” include the Nicoyan Peninsula in Costa Rica, the town of Loma Linda in California, and the islands of Okinawa in Japan, Sardinia in Italy and Ikaria in Greece.
NC hospital CEO salaries went up 104% in last decade, report
CBS-17 - A new report from the state treasurer’s office shows North Carolina hospital CEOs have seen their salaries increase by more than 100 percent over the past 10 years.
The North Carolina Department of the State Treasurer published a report titled “Hospital Executive Compensation: A Decade of Growing Wage Inequity Across Nonprofit Hospitals.”
Observation - Eugene Woods at Atrium had a 473% pay bump. And still they cry poor and worse, ask you for donations to support their “non-profit” mission.
HOW TECHNOLOGY CAN HELP EASE SOCIAL ISOLATION
Sixty and Me - A study of more than half a million people in the UK and Canada has linked social isolation to signs of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. More than a third of people worldwide over 50 live alone. In addition to the toll cited above, social isolation also leads to physical, emotional, and mental health issues.
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