Articles

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You've Got to Find What You Love  
Steve Jobs — Stanford University Commencement Address | June 20005 

The Elusive Big Idea  
Neal Gabler, NY Times | August 13, 2011 

Waking Up to What Really Matters  
Wendy Lustbader, Huffington Post | August 16, 2011 

Conference slated on dementia  
Emily Charrier-Botts, Sonoma Index-Tribune | August 8, 2011 

Eldertopia  
Dr. William H. Thomas, The Journal: AARP International | August 7, 2011 

Living with the unknown  
Pam Gibson, Sonoma Index-Tribune | August 8, 2011 

Positive thinking makes for happy old people  
Shari Roan, Los Angeles Times | July 14, 2011 

The Poetics of Aging and Dementia  
Nader Robert Shabahangi 

Why Our Society Is Ageist  
Rhoda P. Curtis, Huffington Post | July 28, 2011 

Elders Offer Help at Japan’s Crippled Reactor  
NY Times | June 27, 2011 

Aging Gracefully: Why Getting Old Is A Lot Like Being Young  
Rhoda P. Curtis, Huffington Post | June 22, 2011 

Our Irrational Fear of Forgetting  
Margaret Morganroth Gullette, New York Times | May 21, 2011 

Liking is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts.  
Jonathan Franzen, New York Times | May 28, 2011 

The 'Presence' Approach to Care With Alzheimer's and Other Types of Dementia  
Marguerite Manteau-Rao, Huffington Post | May 26, 2011 

Seeking the Tzelem: Making Sense of Dementia  
Dayle A. Friedman,  The Reconstructionist | Spring 2006 

Lifelong learning is the secret to happiness in old age  
Jerome Monahan and Joe Clancy, The Guardian | May 17, 2011 

Memories Slip, but Golf is Forever  
Matthew Futterman, Wall Street Journal | April 8, 2009 

Boomers Redefine Retirement Living  
Sally Abrahms, AARP Bulletin | April 1, 2011 

Want to Live to 100? Try to Bounce Back from Stress  
Dr. Mark Lachs, NPR | April 11, 2011
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The Joy of Growing Old (or Why Life Begins at 46)  
The Economist | December 18, 2010 

Talk Doesn't Pay, So Psychiatry Turns Instead to Drug Therapy  
by Gardiner Harris, New York Times | March 5, 2011 

A Baker’s Dozen: Proposed Therapeutic Interventions of an Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapist  
by Bob Edelstein, LMFT, MFT | AHP Perspective 2011 (forthcoming) 

Storytelling Program Improves Lives of People With Alzheimer's  
ScienceDaily | March 1, 2011 

Some Observations on the Social Consequences of Forgetfulness and Alzheimer’s Disease: A Call for Attitudinal Expansion  
by Nader Shabahangi, Geoffrey Faustman, Julie N. Thai, Patrick Fox — Journal of Aging, Humanities, and the Arts: 3:38–52, 2009 

Living Well at the End of Life  
Joanne Lynn, David M. Adamson | Rand Health 

Giving Alzheimer’s Patients Their Way, Even Chocolate  
by Pam Belluck, New York Times | December 31, 2010 

Older Folks Seem to Gain 'Emotional Intelligence'  
HealthDay News | December 29, 2010 

10 Tips for Improving the Mental Health of Older Adults  
Mental Health America 

Come Together: Actors Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker on how Alzheimer's disease has made their family bond stronger  
by Linda Childers, Neurology Now | November/December 2010 

Alzheimer's 10,000 Joys and 10,000 Sorrows: an Interview with Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle  
by Marguerite Manteau-Rao, Huffington Post | November 28, 2010 

Nader Shabahangi, CEO, AgeSong assisted living  
by Suzanne Herel, San Francisco Chronicle | October 24, 2010 

Approaches to Aging: A Conversation with Nader Shabahangi  
Aging Today | July-August 2009 

Reframing Alzheimer’s: Book Helps Deepen Understanding of Memory Loss  
Article By: Andrew Schwartz, UCSF Today | July 12, 2010 

Assisted Living in the News  
This blog is your resource for up-to-date information on what’s happening right now in Assisted Living in California.
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Remember What We Can Learn From The Forgetful  
Article By: Nader Shabahangi, Ph.D, Orinda News | July 2010 

The Elderly, Through the Eyes of a Geriatrician  
Article By: Paula Span, New York Times | June 23, 2010 

The Power of Witnessing One Another  
Article By: Alison Bonds Shapiro, Healing into Possibility [Psychology Today] | June 7, 2010 

Everyday Creativity and Healing  
Article By: Alison Bonds Shapiro, Healing into Possibility [Psychology Today] | June 5, 2010 

Conscious Aging  
Article By: Mariamne Paulus | June 2005 

Conscious Aging  
Article By: Nancy Coker, Sunrise Magazine [Theosophical University Press] | Winter 2007 

Aging with Awareness  
Article By: Ron Valle, Ph.D. and Mary Mohs, L.V.N., M.A. | 2004 

Conscious Aging: Nurturing a New Vision of Longevity  
Article By: Robert C. Atchley, Aging Today | January-February 2002 

Gloria Steinem's Longer View  
Article By: Leslie Lewis, Bay Area BusinessWoman | November 2004 

Listening to the Language of Dementia: A Research and Care Program  
Article By: Pacific Institute 2005 

Faces of Aging Review - Have You Ever Noticed?  
Article By: Allen Lorrance, Emergin Newspaper June 2005 

For Steinem, these are the glory years  
Article By: Janet Kornblum, USA Today | February 1, 2005 

One Clinician's Search for the Person Behind the 'Dementia'  
Article By: Doris Bersing, Aging Today | September-October 2006 

The Surprising Power of the Aging Brain  
Article By: Jeffrey Kluger, Time | January 13, 2006 

Redefining Dementia: Between the World of Forgetting and Remembering  
Article By: Nader Robert Shabahangi | December 2005 

A Different Attitude Toward Elder Care  
Reprinted from the Oakland Business Review | March 2008 

Five Elements of Healthy Aging  
Simple ways to help you age gracefully and beautifully
Video clip from ABC's The View From The Bay | February 17, 2009 

Listening to Madness  
Why some mentally ill patients are rejecting their medication and making the case for 'mad pride.'
Article By: Alissa Quart, Newsweek | May 2, 2009 

Seeing Old Age as a Never-Ending Adventure  
OCALA, Fla. — Ilse Telesmanich, 90, sprained her ankle hiking in  South Africa last August. She tried to keep going on the three-week  trip, she said, hobbled as she was. “I got very good at hopping on one  foot the last...
NYTImes.com | January 7, 2010 

New Reality for Residents with Alzheimer’s  
The Holistic Path to Memory Care article by Nader Shabahangi,  founder and CEO of AgeSong Senior Communities | August 1, 2009
Assisted Living Federation of America 

For Steinem, these are the glory years  
Article By: Janet Kornblum, USA Today | February 1, 2005 

Aging and Process Work  
Old Age: Hopes, Fears and Beyond
Article By: Bogna Szymkiewicz-Kowalska, Pacific Institute | 2004