Archive for: June 2007

Predicting Dementia Studied Through In-Home Monitors
It’s well known that early detection in the majority of illnesses can deter if not eliminate a disease’s progression.   Alzheimer’s is one of those illnesses able to remain masked throughout much of its early stages.  Because of the …

The Young@ Heart chorus began as a lark in 1982 when a group of seniors from Northampton, Ma., living at the Walter Salvo House, an elderly housing project, decided to have a little singing fun.  Bob Cilman, the choir’s director recognized artistic opportunity in …

Let’s Play a Few Mind Games, Shall We…
Several decades ago, a fitness movement exploded enticing generations of people of all ages to exchange a sedentary lifestyle for a more active one.  We jogged, aerobicized, golfed, …

 "Once I knew only darkness and stillness…my life was without past or future…but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness and my heart leaped to the rapture of …