17th Biennial Conference
Transforming Hawaii’s Aging Future:  Innovate, Integrate & Invigorate

September 10-11, 2012
Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, HI

The 2012 Hawaii Pacific Gerontological Society Conference will provide a forum to discuss ideas and exchange knowledge to help make Hawaii a better place to grow old.  The conference will be organized along three main topics:

Gray Panthers Join In, Speak Out About Putting Profits Over People

ASA has partnered with Mom’s Meals to present a two-part webinar series that will outline how proper nutrition can help improve disease outcomes. With insight on the ways that proper food and nutrition can improve brain health, mitigate disease symptom, and actually prevent some chronic conditions, this series will be especially valuable to professionals in the field of aging.

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

10:00 AM Pacific / 11:00 AM Mountain / 12:00 PM Central / 1:00 PM Eastern

By Gary Small

The Alzheimer’s Association recently reported the staggering estimate that Americans are paying $200 billion dollars a year for the care of 5 million Alzheimer’s victims, whose Medicare payments are almost three times those of older adults without dementia. One out of every seven Alzheimer’s patients, an estimated 800,000, lives alone—a frightening number considering they are unable to care for themselves and pose threats to themselves and others.

Two websites launched in mid May targeted at the ever-growing population of those caring for those with Alzheimer’s.

We started the second camping trip of the summer at 6 a.m. from the Goleta Valley Senior Center. This wonderful group of women from our center were gung-ho for the journey, if not a little bit sleepy.