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Stand for social justice
Emergency physician writes about our urgent need to improve overall healthcare access

My sister Alice brought Dr. Fisher’s book to my attention. My personal encounter with the vast inequities found in healthcare and society in general was derived from a chapter in my career while working in a similar environment … a medical center and teaching hospital located just minutes from Dr. [...]

2022-07-18T12:28:51-05:00July 17th, 2022|Categories: Creating Community, General|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments
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Living fully serving others
Meet Maurice Yordy – our beloved 92-year old Uncle Max – living fully serving others

The interview which follows was conducted and written by Mike Yoder, the current chair of the board of the Illinois Mennonite Historical and Genealogical Society (IMHGS) which maintains the Illinois Mennonite Museum near Metamora, Illinois.  Mike is a retired college sociology professor. The article was originally published for members of [...]

2022-07-17T20:07:28-05:00July 17th, 2022|Categories: Creating Community|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |4 Comments
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Dementia justice matters
Reparations for Harms Experienced in Residential Aged Care

Kudos to Kate Swaffer and her co-author, Dr. Linda Steele, for this article recently published in Health and Human Rights Journal, a publication of Harvard University. Linda and Kate are Dementia Justice researchers. Deep-felt thanks for their tireless efforts to advance the human rights of people living with dementia. Linda [...]

2022-07-01T11:34:12-05:00June 30th, 2022|Categories: Creating Community, General|Tags: , , , , , , |0 Comments
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Changing the culture of care
Kate Swaffer speaks about “Sexual Assault in Residential Aged Care”

Kate Swaffer is a well-known activist, independent researcher, and leader in the international community who was diagnosed with a form of younger onset frontotemporal dementia in 2008.  Her bio can be found here on ABeautifulVoice.org with other esteemed Influencers.    Sexual Assault in Residential Aged Care In this video (6:57 [...]

2026-01-28T13:35:12-06:00June 19th, 2022|Categories: Creating Community, General|Tags: , , , , , |0 Comments
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A New Lens: Soul Care
You are invited to submit a Selfie – Join our Selfie Project page

The SELFIE PROJECT page has undergone a recent renovation. Always "under construction," we are in the process of upgrading and expanding the GALLERY and we are ready for your submissions! Learn more here. WHAT: Celebrating being together – via a Selfies “photo op.” WHO: You and a favorite elder or [...]

2022-06-22T10:09:53-05:00June 18th, 2022|Categories: Creating Community, General|0 Comments
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The importance of role models
Implications for our future: Understanding the dominator model and the partnership model

"Domination Systems have superior/inferior relationships and view power as 'power over.' Partnership Systems have egalitarian relationships and view power as 'power with' and 'power to' (creative power)." Author: Riane Eisler, JD, President, Center for Partnership Systems     Author: Susan Troyer, BA, MS As a child, Riane Eisler, JD, fled [...]

2022-06-22T10:13:06-05:00April 25th, 2022|Categories: Creating Community, General|Tags: , , , , , , , |0 Comments
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Disrupting the status quo
Rebel Saint: Bill Thomas Revolutionizes Aging

The Wall Street Journal has called Bill Thomas, MD, "One of the 12 most influential Americans to redefine aging."  He and Jude Thomas had recently founded the Eden Alternative when I came across an article about him in April 1999.  I had just arrived back in my hometown to support [...]

2022-06-22T10:14:21-05:00April 19th, 2022|Categories: A Sense of Place, Creating Community|Tags: , , , |0 Comments
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Leadership matters
How Zelenskyy emerged as the antithesis of Putin and proved you don’t need to be a strongman to be a great leader

"It is natural for the West to pin a great many hopes on Zelenskyy, in his resistance to the authoritarianism of Putin. The West should, however, not forget the most central lesson of democratic politics – that the leaders are no better, morally speaking, than those they lead." Author:  Michael [...]

2022-05-14T13:04:53-05:00April 18th, 2022|Categories: Creating Community, General|Tags: , , , , , , , |0 Comments
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A spiritual deficit in society
Minister for Seniors at Famed Church Confronts Ageism and the Shame It Brings

"I’ve learned how real and pervasive ageism is... It reflects poorly that our imagination is so stunted and limited when it comes to aging — that we can’t see all the gifts that are lost, all the creativity and the care and the relationships that are lost when we don’t [...]

2022-05-14T12:56:49-05:00April 12th, 2022|Categories: Creating Community, General|Tags: , , , , , , , |0 Comments
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Creating Community
A Doctor Speaks Out About Ageism In Medicine

“'I picked you for my physician because I know you’re a wonderful doctor. But I have to admit, I’m pretty disappointed by what you just said, because it felt to me that you were discounting me. I’d really like a different approach.' Doctors are human beings, and we live in [...]

2021-07-25T22:19:07-05:00July 25th, 2021|Categories: Creating Community|Tags: , , , , , |0 Comments
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