Connie Michaelis, Marketing Consultant for The Piper Assisted Living and Memory Support An ancient proverb says, “Age is the price of wisdom. Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake.” The benefit of a long life is being able to draw from experience. It is simply impossible for a 20-year-old to...
Connie Michaelis, Marketing Consultant for The Piper Assisted Living and Memory Support The world I work in is filled with people concerned about the effects of ageing. New research is changing this field daily. With the advent of the Baby Boomers hitting their 70’s, it is at the forefront of the medical and public conversation....
Connie Michaelis, Marketing Consultant for The Piper Assisted Living and Memory Support My Mother, who would have been 102 years old this year, used to talk about the fun they had creating housewarming parties for newlyweds called a Shivaree. It was a combination of a welcome to the neighborhood party and some ornery friends creating...
Connie Michaelis, Marketing Consultant for The Piper Assisted Living and Memory Support I was listening to a podcast by one of my favorite authors and speakers, Dr. Bill Thomas. His crusade is for successful, outrageous ageing! The tag line of his Disrupt Aging nationwide tour is, “What if everything you know about aging is wrong?”...
Are you familiar with the term filial (fi-lē-əl) piety? Years ago, I was at the Institute on Aging at the University of Kansas and coincidently ended up observing a Chinese woman presenting her doctoral thesis to an audience of professors. She explained that her research compared over 5,000 print and film advertisements to see differences...