Health: May 2008 Archive Page

Great series from The Globe and Mail. I seem to recall that articles from this paper disappear behind a pay-per-view firewall after a few weeks, so print these out now if you think you'll ever get old.

Part one

Fast times at Senior High

The cliques, the gossip, the hot guy with a car: A retirement home is Grade 10 all over again, but here the new kids are pushing 90. 26/05/08 12:00 AM

 

Part two

Mean Girls, but with walkers

Being the newbie is never easy, even when the cool kids snubbing you are in their 80s. Your clothes, your finances, your romances - they're all grist for the gossip mill 27/05/08 12:00 AM

 

Part three

Looking for love, or ...

The equipment may be rusty, but you can still get lusty. And the desire for companionship never fades. 28/05/08 12:00 AM

 

Part four

The fuss over food

Keeping control over body and mind is tough when you live in a retirement home, right down to having to eat whatever's put in front of you 29/05/08 12:00 AM

 

Part Five

Amid loss, striving for life

Only survivors make it this far, and they are determined to keep going. They share their strength and hope with reporter Rebecca Dube and photographer Kevin Van Paassen 30/05/08 12:00 AM

Wired just loves technology. Here's an article about a technological solution to forgetting.

As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our memory to them. We would ask questions, and our machines would give oracular -- or supremely practical -- replies. Wozniak has discovered a different route. When he entrusts his mental life to a machine, it is not to throw off the burden of thought but to make his mind more swift. Extreme knowledge is not something for which he programs a computer but for which his computer is programming him.