
Art + Medicine: Healthy Aging
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Exploring healthy aging through an artistic lens.
Exploring heathy aging with Drs. Jon Hallberg and Tseganesh Selameab through the 4M’s framework of Mobility, Mentation (more commonly thought of as mood and memory), Medication and What Matters to older adults, all with an artistic lens. This is a co-production with the Center for the Art of Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School.
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Art + Medicine: Healthy Aging
Special | 56m 39sVideo has Closed Captions
Exploring heathy aging with Drs. Jon Hallberg and Tseganesh Selameab through the 4M’s framework of Mobility, Mentation (more commonly thought of as mood and memory), Medication and What Matters to older adults, all with an artistic lens. This is a co-production with the Center for the Art of Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School.
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- We humans on planet earth can be correctly described as being full of it.
- I think that aging is something that we should all aspire to.
- We don't see any beauty in age.
- The misconception is that there's something wrong with getting old.
- I think some of the misconceptions about aging are that you're vulnerable and weak, and you can't do as much.
- That you get less interesting.
- A certain feeling that you're less effective.
- Not being quite as relevant.
- [Yengmy] Not being able to understand or remember.
- Okay, a lot of people think that once you get past retirement, it's just kind of a downhill slide.
- I think that in this culture, there's emphasis put on youthfulness.
- In age, I believe one gift is maturity.
- And attention is given to how to stay youthful as opposed to how to actually age in a healthy way.
- I think, it's really important to talk about healthy aging because-- - There are so many of us that are living so much longer now.
- In my parents' generation, it was never addressed.
- What is the limits of what I can do in a healthy way, and in my field, a certain level of artistry that I can continue to work at?
- Healthy aging should be the only alternative, because unhealthy aging doesn't prove anything.
(bright upbeat music) - This program is a co-production with the Center for the Art of Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School, and is funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation, with additional support from Tom and Meredith Olson.
- Art and Medicine, Healthy Aging, take one.
- Aging is a complex process that affects older adults in different ways.
I'm Dr. Jon Hallberg, a family physician.
- And I'm Dr. Tseganesh Selameab, I practice internal medicine.
In our clinical practices, we care for many older adults, some into their 90s and beyond.
As you can imagine, many of these older adults have complex needs that require safe, effective, and reliable care.
Too often, our healthcare systems, aren't able to adequately address those needs.
- In response, researchers, clinical geriatric specialists, and health system leaders, from the John A. Hartford Foundation, one of the funders of this show, and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, develop something called the 4Ms framework to help create what are known as age-friendly health systems.
- The 4Ms are what matters, medication, mentation or commonly thought of as mood and memory, and mobility.
Research has shown over the last 30 years, that attention to the 4Ms will improve the health of older adults.
- This show will explore each of these Ms through the lens of art, music and personal stories and reflection.
We start with mobility.
We want to ensure that older adults move safely every day in order to maintain function and do what matters.
- It's important to encourage movement and physical activity to keep our bones, our joints, and our brains healthy, and to prevent falls and injuries.
- To help you remember this, we often tell our patients, motion is lotion and resting is rusting.
- Around 35, I felt like I was at the peak of my physical mobility, so to speak, and it's been declining ever since.
- Well, I'm much slower than I used to be.
- I'm not running the 10Ks that I used to love to run.
- You know, like a quick twist can really mess up my back.
- I'm very careful in the winter about walking.
- I have quit running.
- We can't do things quite as fast as we used to, but we're still doing a lot.
- [Yengmy] When I was six years old, I started doing the Hmong story cloth.
And when I was younger, it was a lot easier being intricate with my fingers, and with my vision, it was a lot more detail-oriented.
- I used to play some tennis, but I've switched to focus on golf.
So, I really feel like that kind of sense of mobility and awareness, has really helped me enjoy the process of aging in a sense.
(gentle music) - The air is fresh this morning, and I am walking fast.
Hey, listen, my bones are happy inside my skin.
My fingers are snapping, so I add a step or two, a skip, step, step, and step aside.
I can almost forget that I have what I have, but I never do.
I notice the wind shaking hands with the branches, the sky threading blue through my eyes.
This is how I'd like you to remember me, from the inside out, back when my heart was folded so neatly under my ribs.
(sings in foreign language) - I think, people are afraid that age and dance don't go together, and they associate it with youth.
(sings in foreign language) My name is Ranee Ramaswamy, and the art that I practice is Bharatanatyam.
(sings in foreign language) Bharatanatyam is one of the five classical styles in India.
I started learning this form in India when I was about seven years old, came to Minneapolis in 1978 with my family.
In 1992, I formed Ragamala Dance Company, mainly to make this art form accessible to all audiences.
The two aspects of Bharatanatyam, one is called Nrita which is pure dance, rhythmic dance.
It uses the entire body.
(sings in foreign language) We dance bare feet, and it uses hand gestures with it.
The other aspect is Abhinaya or expressive dance, where the dancer tells a story, where she is not only describing the exterior, but also the interior.
So, how she feels or what is going on in that particular time and space.
(sings in foreign language) So, as Bharatanatyam dancers start about seven years old, we have so much of physical training to use the feet, the knees, the legs, and for us, the basic positions, the play position.
As you age, that play position becomes difficult because your knee starts to bother.
When we had this two years of not really performing or rehearsing together, I've made a conscious decision that I do not want to do Nrita, rhythmic dance on stage.
I still practice it because it keeps you agile.
(sings in foreign language) This change that I made to concentrate more on the expressive aspect, actually, mines my lived experience and understanding of myth, stories, spirituality, knowledge that I have gathered over the years, they all match up together.
And so, the output that comes out is a much more truthful.
(sings in foreign language) Aging is a mystery, so different in the West versus East, until very recently, we don't have a system where the elderly move away to a old age home or a senior citizen's home.
We all lived together, and I lived with my grandmother, and my mother lives with me.
She's 93 years old, and I see where I am going to be.
So, I think that I'm very excited about the possibilities of being old, yet being a carrier of the art form.
We all can only hope and work towards getting older.
As my husband says, if we are lucky, we may get to see what we can do in the future.
But right this moment, I'm hoping year by year that I can continue doing in a small way what I love most, which is dance.
(sings in foreign language) - What do I fear about aging?
- Oh, there's a few things to be concerned about.
- I fear the great big art pile up, and after I die, all of them ending up in a dumpster.
- I have a friend who went blind, and as a writer, as an author, it's important that I have my eyesight.
- I think, memory loss memory loss is probably one of my greatest fears.
- Emotionally.
- My husband dying.
- More heartbreak.
- Being alone.
- My biggest fear is when they're not here.
- I am concerned about-- (speaks in foreign language) - [Interpreter] My husband, I'm already having to help him a little bit with his hearing, and hopefully, in the future, he'll be able to help me vice versa.
- My second greatest fear about getting older is-- - Becoming infirm and a burden to those that I love.
- To become a burden to my family.
- But I also feel resilience.
And I always find humor where there isn't any, so I'm not too worried.
- One of the fears of aging is the fear of loss.
The loss of physical activity, the loss of community, and the loss of loved ones, and for many, the loss of memory.
Shakespeare writing in the early 1600s, showed us an example of this hundreds of years, before we had words like dementia, delirium and Alzheimer's.
- As these losses add up with each passing decade, older adults might feel isolated, lonely, or even depressed.
Even naturally occurring processes like hearing loss, can distance older adults from community and family and hasten memory loss.
- When addressing mentation, we identify, treat and manage memory loss and mood disorders like depression and other conditions that can lead to confusion.
- Therefore, it's critical to stay connected to be engaged, to be aware of early cognitive changes and feelings of depression, and to talk to a healthcare clinician if you're experiencing them.
- Where have I been?
Where am I?
I were assured of my condition.
Pray, do not mock me.
I am a very foolish, fond old man, four score and upward, now more or less, and to deal plainly.
I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
I think I should know you, and know this man, yet I am doubtful, for I'm mainly ignorant what place this is, and all the skill I have, remembers, not these garments, nor I know not where I did lodged last night.
Do not laugh at me, for as I am a man.
I think, this lady to be my child Cordelia (gentle music) - I am aging, that's for sure, but I'm not retired, and I doubt I ever will be.
Because of my husband's frontal temporal dementia, which was not discovered until he ruined our finances, I'm pretty sure I will be working to get out from under that debt the rest of my days.
I certainly didn't expect this to happen to us.
I always assumed we would retire out West to a ski resort or to Arizona where a lot of our friends winter.
We would golf, we would ski, and maybe we would even help out our three children.
But instead, I found myself broke and alone, old friends disappeared.
This certainly wasn't what I thought my 60s would look like.
I miss my husband a lot.
I really miss a partner by my side, but I've learned a lot as I've embarked on this new unexpected life.
I discovered I am much stronger than I ever imagined.
I learned to be a caregiver and an advocate for my husband.
I learned to have a joyful attitude, at least most of the time when I went to visit him at the care center.
My world opened up once I learned to move on, and it feels good.
When you are a widow, there's always that empty chair next to you, and that empty chair used to make me feel so sad and lonely.
But now, I've learned that someone interesting just might come and sit in that chair, and they have.
I'm not wintering out West now, but I did rediscover the North Shore of Minnesota.
I'm not playing that frustrating game of golf, instead, I'm hiking.
I've learned mushroom identification by taking a few classes, and hey, I haven't had my stomach pumped yet, and that's a good thing.
I want people to know, especially, women, who are in my similar situation to let go of all that you've lost, and instead, find joy in each day.
You deserve to be happy.
I know my husband would want me to be happy.
What is it you plan to do with your life?
- Though we don't have a cure for dementia, that doesn't mean we can't provide hope and meaning, and even joy for those who have the diagnosis.
Music is a powerful tool to connect those who have dementia and those who love and care for them.
♪ Blessed assurance - Music is so healing.
♪ Jesus is mine - It feeds my heart, it feeds my mind.
♪ Oh what a foretaste - It makes me happy.
It makes me joyful.
Music has the ability to take us through the ages.
It sort of goes past time and space, and when you hear music, it speaks to experiences, emotions.
It speaks to memories.
♪ I'm born of the spirit ♪ And I'm washed in his blood - Music, it lifts myself my soul.
♪ This is my story ♪ This is my song - The Amazing Grace Chorus is amazing.
It is a chorus of elders in what we call a dementia-friendly space.
- So, we are a full bouquet of folks, some who have loved or lost people who've had Alzheimer's and dementia, some who are currently living with it now, some who just wanna be informed and wanting to age in a healthy way.
♪ Blood - Yes, praise the Lord.
- We sing gospel music and it's really great because it reflects culture, African American culture, and African American music.
- Hallelujah, I'm gonna give you 10 seconds to praise him, hallelujah.
- Within gospel music, you have ways of saying things, ways of singing things.
There's lots of nuance and culture and context within it, and we don't want that to melt away.
- Gospel music feeds my soul, and it makes me feel so much better, because you know, when you have like maybe early onsets of dementia, it can take you down into depression, but with the gospel music, it brings you up.
- The goal really too, I think of the Amazing Grace Chorus, is one, to help with some of the isolation that's experienced by elders.
There are times when in community, we begin to move them towards the margins.
And so, this serves as a beautiful way to center them and reduce isolation that they experience at this age.
Also, we oftentimes have a lot of nicknames for the impact of Alzheimer's, like a mother is getting forgetful, or, you know, that's just how uncle is, right?
But through the Amazing Grace Chorus, we're hoping they can know, what are resources we can go to when mother is getting forgetful.
- Sometimes I feel that that I'm forgetting things, and this has helped me because there's exercises that we do to help you remember.
- We center in on a time period, we play songs, and we have the group think about what were things that they remember happening?
- It connects to some deep recess in our brain, and it brings out those memories that are latent in there, and part of who we are that you don't even realize that you still know.
- Please help me welcome Miss Viola Seals and the Amazing Grace Chorus once again.
- What's magical about the Amazing Grace Chorus, is the people.
♪ an on time God, yes He is - Miss Viola Seals is our long-standing gift, and it's not a party of one when she sings.
♪ Job said, He may not come when you want him ♪ ♪ Oh but he'll be there ♪ There right on time You'll often hear her ask for another witness.
She's gonna make sure to pull in everybody.
- And let me see if I can get some more witnesses here.
♪ You can ask - But some of those members of the Chorus who are experiencing memory loss, it's amazing to see them and hear them sing.
So, you will never know those persons who have their memory, those persons who are suffering from memory loss.
You won't know the difference because it brings something out, when they are exposed to music.
♪ Out of no where ♪ God step in and cut a highway just like that ♪ - The joy of being seen, heard, valued, the joy of laughing, of singing is still as relevant in the twilight years as it is when we're the youngest of singers and artists too.
When I think about music and dementia in the community, I think, folks are learning about how to keep moving.
It has been a heavy period of time over the course of the past few years.
And I think, they've learned resilience from one another.
I think that they've learned joy again.
They have such great wisdom that they've been generous with and have shared with me.
Sometimes, I think I'm leading, but really they're pushing me along too, right?
- Being a part of the Chorus, it gives me joy, it gives me hope.
You know, I don't take anything for granted.
I could be in that situation next week, but I am appreciating and learning from so many of the members.
It gives me hope.
♪ Oh yes ♪ He's an on-time God ♪ Oh yeah - It feels so good to be singing with the choir.
It kind of helps me stay focused and gives me strength.
(congregation applauding) - All right, all right, all right.
- As hard as it is to imagine, human diversity in terms of physical and mental ability, peaks after age 65.
For example, an 85-year old might be free from any significant disease and feel relatively young, while a 65-year old might have multiple medical problems and feel much older than their age.
- There is no one example of what it means to be an older adult, and that's both the beauty and the challenge of aging.
(gentle music) - We know that medications can be life-saving, so if one is necessary, we should prescribe one that is age-friendly, that does not interfere with mobility, mentation or what matters most for an older adult.
Unfortunately, many of the medications we prescribe can cause side effects.
They can interfere with other medications and they can be very expensive.
- And as our patients age, many of them experience more problems with their health.
And this often tempts us to prescribe more and more medications, leading to something we call polypharmacy.
In reality, we should look for opportunities to de-prescribe or reduce medications.
- Fortunately, we work closely with our pharmacist colleagues, whether it is in the hospital, the clinic, or the pharmacy, to meet this medication goal for our older adult patients.
- In the past, I would say about 15, 20 years, I've begun to take more medications.
- I do take several medications.
- I take maybe or eight, nine pills every day.
- You always think you're taking too many already.
- I take medicine for-- - Blood pressure.
- [Interpreter] For my blood pressure.
- Hypertension, for high blood pressure.
- Drops for my eyes, for glaucoma.
- Type 2 diabetes.
- Cholesterol.
- Cholesterol.
- Vitamin D, B12.
- Calcium pills.
- Different herbal supplements.
- I've been really fortunate in that I don't take any medications regularly.
(speaks in foreign language) - [Interpreter] Because of COVID-19, there's more of a tendency to take over-the-counter medication or a lot more vitamins to build the immune system.
- Good news is there's been no side effects and those pills are helping us prolong life and do it comfortably.
(gentle music) - Hey Chris, how are you?
- A lot of times people get a picture of the pharmacists who count your pills behind the counter.
They think of the pharmacy as a place where you just go to pick up your prescription, but there's so much more to it.
- So, if you have any question, feel free to give us a call.
I always had a curiosity about drugs, medications, and the most interesting part, being a pharmacist is the interaction, and I'm more of a people person.
Well, have a wonderful day.
- As a pharmacist, it's one of the last healthcare professions where we are so accessible to the public.
- Yeah, but I've got some questions for you with this one.
- Okay.
- Open this up so I can see what's in here.
- Roughly about half of our patient base are elderly patients.
We have to spend more time with our elderly patient to make sure that they get their prescription, and making sure that what they are taking is accurate.
And on top of that, they understand, that's the most important thing.
So, you take one capsule by mouth 30 minutes before meal, okay?
- Medication therapy management is one of the roles that I have here as a pharmacist.
It's a time where I can sit down with a patient and just thoroughly go through their medications.
A lot of the people that I end up doing these medication reviews with, they're 65 years of age and older.
- There's some elderly folks that they can't leave their home.
If the patient allows, we always come and visit them and we find it very effective.
One is being compliant, second is, it just brings a lot of satisfaction.
- A lot of these people end up being on many medications, at that point in their life.
So, it's just a time that I can sit down with them.
So, this one is for your diabetes, okay?
And look specifically for side effects and interactions and precautions that I wanna go over with them.
- When we see our patient that come, they've seen like multiple doctors, we make sure that they get the right treatment.
So, we make sure these drugs are not overlapping.
- A lot of times because they have gotten to an older age, they tend to be on medications that they've just always been on.
Doesn't mean that it's a medication that they should be on anymore.
So, I try to look through all of their medications and see if there's anything that can be taken out and work with the doctors to de-prescribe.
If I do something like that, it's going to make it so that there are less side effects, less interactions and less things to kind of worry about for them.
Go ahead and take a look at these things and just make sure that they're all good together.
- Sounds good.
- We can check out too.
As we age, one of the things that can happen is, it can almost turn into like a prescribing cascade.
So, maybe someone will be started on a particular medication for a specific disease state, and then they might have a side effect.
Sometimes, the doctor will actually treat those side effects as though it's another condition.
And you end up with a situation called polypharmacy, which is basically when someone is on several medications.
- And you're gonna do your left arm?
- Yeah, yeah.
- There's so much joy and satisfaction in being a pharmacist.
And one of the biggest things that I love is being able to actually see a problem, address the problem with the patient, and to be able to work with them, to be able to get to where they feel better.
That would kind of help figure out why you're having some of these side effects that we talked about before.
- Dealing with your elderly patient is the most joyful.
They bring smile to you, the most kindest people.
And every time you bring their medication, either you deliver or they come and pick it up, they always come with smile.
And I feel privileged helping the elderly patient, getting their medication, and getting the right treatment.
- Finally, we come to what matters, the most important M. The goal of understanding what matters is to enjoy life as much and as fully as possible, the way you want to enjoy it.
- When we know what matters, we can better align care with each older adult's specific health outcome goals and care preferences.
This includes, but is not limited to things like end of life care.
- For example, a patient may choose to give up independent living and move into the home of their son, because living near their family and receiving care for them is what matters to them.
- Another patient might choose to forego surgery or treatment for a condition because the most important thing for them, might be quality of life, not quantity of life.
- We can't stress enough how important it is to have conversations with your loved ones and your clinicians.
Please, make your wishes and desires known.
- What matters to me in regards to my health and my wellbeing, I wanna stay mobile, keep moving, it's important.
So like, I'm more interested in quality of life.
- What matters to me over the years, is my continuing relationships with my family and friends.
- But I happen to be a follower of Jesus, and that has made my life as full as it is.
- [Interpreter] My husband and I, we've always wanted to help the community, and we've always wanted to help people who are underprivileged.
- What matters is children, grandchildren being a part of their lives.
- And also, caregiving and watching over my brother.
- Certain things have changed in terms of what matters to me.
- And I would say the arts.
- What matters to me is drawing in the lowly places, and being able to pay attention to people who are not seen.
- And I feel like, the more I'm able to be in situations where there's less stress, the more I'm able to actually extend, a kind of healthy lifestyle.
- Between the slow down with COVID and my age, I think the effect has been just to revisit all the things that I really wanna get done.
- [Man] My friend, old and passing, said, "There is more to life than staying alive.
Don't rescue me too much."
(gentle music) On this farm, 12 miles out by rough gravel roads, he is done with plowing, spraying, harvesting, but he is not done watching the sun, sink below the windbreak or listening to the nighthawks above his feels.
Don't make him move to town.
There is more to tragedy than dying.
(gentle music) - Anyone who spends a lot of time in their garden or farm, whatever or out in nature, and see the cycles that we're on a cycle too.
And so, we are in, I don't think, it's not the autumn of our lives or closer to the, coming to winter, but that's okay.
- Kind of mid to late fall is where we are.
- Part of my artistic journey is that I love to read.
And from reading, I've dreamed about becoming a writer.
- I was born into this family of artists.
I was encouraged to follow my passions in art and nature, and have been drawing for the last almost 70 years.
I describe myself as a visual artist, creating artwork that you have to see to experience many times though to feel.
- I love to incorporate aspects of nature in my writing.
I have a garden, and I spent a lot of time there, and so the writing process, to me, mirrors the process of the earth, the germination, and the caring for.
- We met, I'm not gonna say the year, 'cause.
(both laugh) - I can remember vaguely.
(both laugh) - We met at one of the first meetings of an organization of African American journalists.
It was a group of artists like myself.
I thought the revolution was going to happen almost in the next week after we met, but-- - I never thought it was.
- No, she didn't, but I did, and we became friends.
So, we have been working in collaboration now for over 30 years and creating these pieces that have text in them, that Soyini composes the text for.
Working with Ta-coumba Aiken, we decided to create these pieces that would be embedded in the sidewalk on Nicollet Mall, that would tell these stories of these folks who came before.
In a way, it was our way of acknowledging the ancestors.
Ta-coumba and I created the forms and Soyini created the text, and we followed kind of the same path when we were commissioned to create the piece at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden.
You know, all these shadows that we created, allow folks to be able the stand in the shadows of our ancestors.
We also collaborated on a poem on the Dale Street stop, that's almost an ode to this neighborhood.
- It's really the public part of public art, that's really intriguing to me.
It's public and people can read it for free, and hopefully, if they read it, then it resonates in some level with them.
- Nah, I forgot what I was gonna say.
(both laugh) Now, you know, that has nothing to do with aging.
You know, I was complaining one time to my mother.
I said, "Mom, I'm starting to lose my memory."
And she said, "Oh, you've been like that since you were a kid, you can't remember anything."
(both laugh) - Seitu says his two harshest critics.
(Seitu laughs) He says, my mother and you.
(both laugh) - Yeah, yeah, there's no question about how deep my mother's love was for me, and I have no question on how deep my wife's love is for me.
But they were two of the hardest women in my life.
I mean, I can't tell you, like the critiques and criticism that I got that shaped me.
My mother died just a couple years ago at 90 years old.
We were so fortunate and blessed here in Minnesota, in this land of disparities, that my mother and father built up some wealth to pass on to us.
And so now, it is our responsibility to do that same thing.
You know, last year and I had a health hiccup, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer, and I had to slow down.
That was this big lesson to really focus on this next season.
I'm not going to accelerate the pace of what I'm doing, but I am more laser-focused on it, that you should leave your community more beautiful, than you found it.
The Black Gate will be this institution based right here in Frogtown, that will have a studio space, and will have two residences on top, two apartments, that will be dedicated to artists.
This will be the site of the Black Gate.
- We have been recipients of artist residencies.
Whoever owned those lands, they made really intentional decisions to leave that land there for the future.
And we just thought, "Okay, we have this piece of earth, and what can we do to make a broader and deeper and more lasting impression?"
We want to have something for the future.
- It will have a small space that will contain our library and our archive.
So photos, contracts, communications back and forth, that will help folks coming after us to understand a career, to understand our path as artists.
We're establishing with other African American artists in particular and other artists that are archiving their work that are wanting to have a say in their legacy, all of that is sacred.
What we want to leave behind is the same thing that our ancestors left for us.
Black Gate is this legacy, but we're not gonna be working on this for all of our lives.
You know, I still want to make art.
I still would like to spend more time in nature.
We're just now getting into birding.
I love fishing, and we love to travel.
There are all these things still that we wanna do, and to see and check out.
- I'm very curious.
- Yeah.
- So, I'm just curious about what's gonna happen this evening.
(both laugh) The curiosity-- - Yeah, right, that's true.
- That kind of curiosity.
- That's true.
Always kind of looking at - So, yeah, can balance it out.
- Yeah, yeah.
- The next piece was written by the beloved poet Mary Oliver.
Though it's entitled "When Death Comes," it really isn't about death, but life and living.
- When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn, when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me and snaps the purse shut.
When death comes like an iceberg, between the shoulder blades, I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering, "What is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness?"
And therefore, I look upon everything as a brotherhood and a sisterhood.
And I look upon time as no more than an idea, and I consider eternity as another possibility.
And I think of each life as a flower, as common as a field daisy and as singular, and each name, a comfortable music in the mouth, tending as all music does toward silence, and each body, a lion of courage, and something precious to the earth.
When it's over, I want to say all my life, I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom taking the world into my arms.
When it's over, I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened or full of argument.
I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.
- We hope this exploration of healthy aging through the 4Ms will help you and your loved ones more easily navigate healthy aging.
- We leave with an original piece for jazz trio, entitled "Levity," performed by three clinicians, who provide care to older adults.
- And we pose one more question to our older artists.
What brings you joy as you age?
(bright upbeat music) - [Rick] What brings me joy as I age?
- I find joy when I have adventures with my family.
- Of course, less stress brings me joy.
- My faith in this Jesus that we talk about.
- I find joy in time for my inner musings and also in the moments that I'm able to draw in.
- Woodturning, just working with wood and creating things.
- Remaining creative and getting creative ideas, is really important to me as a theater artist and as an artist.
- The children and the grandchildren are at the top of our list.
- [Interpreter] What brings me joy is working with children at my home daycare.
- Engaging with my family, with my friends, with my community and with Lupe, my dog.
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Playing New Notes in Dementia Research
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During a musical interlude, Dr. Karen Ashe outlines developments in dementia research. (5m 17s)
Borodin's String Quartet No.2: Nocturne
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Alexander Borodin's String Quartet No.2 in D Major: III. Nocturne. (5m 44s)
Dance into your 70s like Ranee Ramaswamy
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Founder of Ragamala Dance Company, Ranee Ramaswamy describes how to dance into your 70s. (4m 48s)
Dementia-Friendly, Amazing Grace Chorus
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The Amazing Grace Chorus is dementia-friendly and celebrates Black history and culture. (7m 4s)
King Lear Excerpt Featuring Raye Birk
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Raye Birk performs an excerpt of Shakespeare's King Lear. (2m 3s)
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Original jazz composition "Levity"performed by the Ari Nahum Trio. (3m 45s)
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Artists Seitu Ken Jones and Soyini Vinelle Guyton look to leaving a legacy. (8m 7s)
Morning Walk by Joyce Sutphen, Film by Zack Grant
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Poem "Morning Walk" by Joyce Sutphen, featuring Debra Magid. Film by Zack Grant. (1m 45s)
A Note to His Doctor, by Kevin Hadduck, Film by Tess Nelson
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A Note to His Doctor, by Kevin Hadduck. Film by Tess Nelson. (1m 40s)
Serving Older Patients in the Pharmacy
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Medication therapy management and de-prescribing are important when serving older adults. (4m 15s)
When Death Comes by Mary Oliver
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Candace Barrett Birk performs Mary Oliver's poem "When Death Comes" at Lakewood Cemetery. (2m 8s)
Why is it Important to Talk About Aging?
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Artists answer, "Why is it important to talk about healthy aging?" (1m 34s)
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