Design makes care facilities feel like homes
Roseville based ASI designs aging care spaces to resemble private homes rather than institutions. Interviews with residents guide projects from Sun City to Wyckoff and St Paul, creating intimate interiors with amenities like computer rooms and garden spaces.
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Roseville
Minn
Sun City
Ariz
East
Southwest
Charles Shuster
Arthur Shuster Inc
ASI
James Moeller
Shuster
Moeller
Mary Louise Raynor
American Association of Homes and Services For
Raynor
Rosewood Estate
St. Paul
Dorothy Rowell
Dorothy
Longview Assisted Living
Christian Health Care Center
Wychoff
Nancy Turick
Memory Expert William Hersey Turns Memory Into Career
Medford, Mass. William Hersey, 90, claims a system rather than talent helps him memorize 300 names, deck orders, and magazines. He has hosted memory seminars globally and authored Your Handbook to the American Dream and Blues For Memory Classics Blues for Memory. He rose from modest schooling to Tufts, Standard Oil, and later a Rotary talk leading to a game show win that changed his life.
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Medford
Mass
William Hersey
Hersey
Frank Massine
Memory Training Institute
Maine
Indiana
New York
Tufts University
Standard Oil
Peter Cottontail
Brazil aims to join leaders in aluminum can recycling
Brazil races toward top ranks in recycling aluminum cans led by Luiz Carlos Carola who went from homelessness to earning about 260 dollars a month by collecting cans. The Brazilian Aluminum Association targets 80 percent recycling of 95 billion cans sold in 2000, matching Japan's current rate.
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Brazil
Rio DE Janeiro
Japan
Luiz Carlos Carola
Carola
Brazilian Aluminum Association
United States
Europe
Argentina
South America
Seniors donate brains to Alzheimer's research in Kentucky
In Lexington, University of Kentucky volunteers join the BRAIN program to study Alzheimer’s by comparing brains of diseased and healthy individuals. The Sanders-Brown Center on Aging recruits people 60 and up for annual tests and brain donation after death, with over 400 participants and 200 more sought in central Kentucky.
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Lexington
University of Kentucky
David Wekstein
Sanders-Brown Center On
Central
Kentucky
Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
Sanders-Brown
National Institute On Aging
Gretchen
Charlie Black
Gretchen Black
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Joan Nicol-Horum
Arthur Shuster, Inc
Braz
Beatriz Arneson
Roberto
Wekstein
Gail Cohen
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