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POSITIVE AGING: Living it Up to the End News reports and magazines are full of stories and warnings and worries over the approaching boomer bubble of boomers over 60 years of age, the puzzling spike in cases of dementias and disorders, i.e., Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and related disabling brain function. You'd think that any of us have half a chance to live out our lives with any sense of robust abandon and engaging work and play alike. Yes, almost all of us have had family members or friends afflicted with such disorders, but a major movement has been under way for years urging us to stop accepting our last 20, 30 years as death-in-waiting. Positive Aging takes in a wide swath of affirmative living, mental and physical engagement of everything life has to offer, including lifelong learning, satisfying sex, and a wide variety of active mental and physical contributions to our communities, our families, our children and grandchildren. TTT's ANDY DRISCOLL and LYNNELL MICKELSEN talk with authors, scholars, advocates and promoters Dr. Peter Whitehouse and Connie Goldman about staying alive all the way out. GUESTS: • CONNIE GOLDMAN - positive aging advocate, activist and author of The Ageless Spirit: Reflections on Living Life to the Fullest in Mid-life and the Years Beyond; Connie Goldman is a former MPR and NPR reporter/commentator, doyenne of arts and aging on All Things Considered. • DR. PETER WHITEHOUSE - geriatric neurologist, cognitive neuroscientist, and "global" bioethicist; author, The Myth of Alzheimer's. Dr. Whitehouse spoke at The Marsh Fitness Center in Minnetonka Wednesday and Thursday in Mayo Auditorium on the University of Minnesota Campus delivering the Center for Spirituality and Healing’s annual Ruth Stricker Mind-Body Lecture.
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