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Human Values in Aging Newsletter
Mar. 1, 2011
AARP Office of Academic Affairs
H.R. Moody, Editor
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IN THIS ISSUE
- News Flash: No Cure Yet for Death
- Spirituality of Later Life
- Theorizing Age
- Coming of Age
- Going Beyond Ego
- Web Sites to See
- Books of Interest
- Text of Life and Commentary
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TAKING RISKS
"We attribute to old age wisdom and sagacity and all these good things, but we don’t have much use for that in our get-up-and-go culture... We’ve become a security-obsessed culture.
We’re an air-bag culture. We buy cars because of their safety features. Everything has to be safety-proofed so that there can be no accident... It’s as if, psychically, we live in gated communities in order to keep out the unforeseen...Where has the risk gone? Aging is a time of risk, and older people have
incredible courage. Just the way they cross the street. Just facing life with a more vulnerable constitution. Just going downstairs or getting out of the bathtub. Risks. Courage."
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NEWS FLASH-- NO CURE FOR DEATH
Dept. of Fast-Breaking Stories--- This just in !!!
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND--World Health Organization officials expressed disappointment Monday at the group's finding that, despite the enormous efforts of doctors, rescue workers and other medical professionals worldwide, the global death rate remains constant at 100 percent.
Death, a metabolic affliction causing total shutdown of all life functions, has long been
considered humanity's number one health concern. Responsible for 100 percent of all recorded fatalities
worldwide, the condition has no cure.
"I was really hoping, what with all those new radiology treatments, rescue helicopters, aerobics TV shows and what have you, that we might at least make a dent in it this year," WHO Director General Dr. Gernst Bladt said. "Unfortunately, it would appear that the death rate remains constant and total, as it has inviolably since the dawn of time." (For further details, see the website: http://www.theonion.com/onion3102/deathrate.html
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SPIRITUALITY OF LATER LIFE
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THEORIZING AGE
-How can critical gerontology be made more visible in Western public spheres, where the doom scenario of increasing health care costs due to the exponential growth of the older population reigns?
-How can critical gerontology improve its voicing of the problems that especially the oldest old or the frail elderly face nowadays?
-How can insights into fictional accounts of aging support the politics of gerontology, i.e. the improvement of the quality of life of elderly people, particularly those in the fourth age?
How can we prevent that storytelling projects with elderly uncritically repeat master narratives of aging?
-How can theories of performativity help to bridge the body/mind gap that many studies of old age involuntarily sustain?
-How can differences between the philosophical, linguistic and artistic definitions of performance fully be accounted for? How can we critically adjust and elaborate on the notion of agency that is connected to theories of performativity?
Deadline for submission of proposal for the "Theorizing Age" conference is March 15, 2011. For details, visit: http://www.humanitiescentral.com/theorizing-age-challenging-the-disciplines/ For a resource on this subject, see HANDBOOK OF THEORIES OF AGING, edited by Vern L. Bengston et al (Springer, 2008).
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COMING OF AGE
To get the book visit: http://www.comingofage.org/
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WEB SITES TO SEE
ROGUE SCHOLARSHIP. Read "Post-Aging: The Role of Technology" at the site devoted to "Rogue Scholarship in Aging" at:
http://uofugeron.wordpress.com/2009/08/01/prolegomena-to-any-future-gerontology-that-will-be-able-to-present-itself-as-a-science/
RETIREMENT. For insight on the "Vices and Virtues of Old Age Retirement" visit:
http://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/top/alumni/emails/alumni_fy10/images/vacek_article.pdf
CHANGING AGING. Eden Alternative founder Bill Thomas has a new approach to promoting positive aging: "The [Changing Aging] blogstream is a cooperative effort by people with a pro-aging vision that facilitates the creation, sharing and distribution of pro-aging content within the social media universe." To learn more, visit:
http://changingaging.org/about/blogstream/
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BOOKS OF INTEREST
HONORING ELDERS: Aging, Authority, and Ojibwe Religion, by Michael D. McNally (Columbia Univ. Press, 2009).
LOVE OVER 60: An Anthology of Women's Poems, edited by Robin Chapman and Jeri McCormick (Mayapple Press, 2010).
For more details visit:
http://www.mayapplepress.com/BookPages/LoveOver60.htm
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
RETIREMENT: "How Will the Work and Retirement Revolution Affect You?"
(Mar. 2, 2011, Palo Alto, CA). The Silicon Valley Positive Aging Forum presents Helen Dennis, best selling author and recognized expert on retirement planning. 5:30 to 7 PM at Avenidas, at 450 Bryant Street, Palo Alto, CA. For more details, call (408)768-1822
or visit: www.agefriendlyhousing.org
RELIGION AND HEALTH: "The Science of Religion and Health: Time to be Born Again?"
(Mar. 5, 2011, Durham, NC). The 9th Annual David B. Larson Memorial lecturer,
Linda K George will deliver this lecture from 5:30 - 6:30 p.m., at Duke University Hospital North, Room 2001, 2301 Erwin Road, Durham, NC. For more information on registration, email dukespiritualityandhealth@gmail.com or call (919) 660-7556
Or visit: http://spiritualityandhealth.duke.edu.
CONSCIOUS AGING: "The Liberative Model of Adult Development"
(Mar. 24, 2011, 4 PM EST, 1 PM PST). A free webinar sponsored by the Institute for Noetic Sciences as part of their "Conscious Aging Teleseminar" series. This seminar features Rick Levenson, who describes an approach very different from reductionist psychology, favoring instead a model of lifespan development and freedom. For
details on the teleseminar, visit: http://www.noetic.org/events/upcoming/conscious-aging/
MEMORY & AESTHETICS: "Aging, Old Age, Memory & Aesthetics"
(Mar. 25-27, 2011, Toronto). A conference bringing together an interdisciplinary scholars working on age studies and the humanities, with a joint publication of papers emerging from this work. Keynote speakers include: Stephen Katz, Linda Hutcheon, and Kathleen Woodward.
For details, visit: http://www.humanities.utoronto.ca/WG10-11Aginz
CONSCIOUS AGING: "Say Yes to Life: Changing the Paradigm from Aging to Sage-ing"
(Mar. 26-27, 2011, Albuquerque, NM). An interactive workshop led by Gary and Charlotte Carlson, presenting principles of conscious aging, including life review, forgiveness, facing mortality, and late-life spirituality. Workshop is prerequisite for the Sage-ing Training program. Counselor CEUs will be available.
For details visit: http://www.sage-ingguild.org/calendar/NMintensive201103.pdf
SAGE-ING: "Changing the Paradigm from Aging to Sage-ing"
(Apr. 2-3, 2011, Chicago, IL). For details contact the facilitators: Michele Baldwin (mabaldwin@aol.com 312-337-0506) and Judith Helburn (thehelburns@sbcglobal.net 512-454-7229)
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The first forty years of life give us the text;the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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