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Feb 16, 2012

Aging Well with Dr. Dan Blazer, Part 7

Christine A. Scheller

Our series on Aging Well with Dr. Dan Blazer included a wealth of information on caring for ourselves and our loved ones in the later years of life.  In article one, we learned that Dr....

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Jan 26, 2012

Aging Well with Dr. Dan Blazer, Part 5: Social Supports & Storytelling

Christine A. Scheller

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 Stories help us make sense of the world. True stories told by our elderly relatives help us understand ourselves, and the telling also helps the storytellers...

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Dec 29, 2011

Aging Well with Dr. Dan Blazer, Part 3: The Role of Perception in Geriatric Health

Christine A. Scheller

Part 1, Part 2 Proverbs 23:7 says, “As [a man] thinks in his heart, so is he” (NKJV). When it comes to geriatric health, this statement has repeatedly proven true. “Self-perceptions of older...

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Dec 15, 2011

Aging Well with Dr. Dan Blazer, Part 2: Successful Aging

Christine A. Scheller

  Part 1 In his 2002 book, Depression in Late Life, Laity Leadership Institute Senior Fellow Dan Blazer, M.D. retells a story from the life of Siddhārtha, who would come to be known as...

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Dec 8, 2011

Aging Well with Dr. Dan Blazer, Part 1

Christine A. Scheller

  Laity Leadership Institute senior fellow Dan Blazer, M.D., PhD. describes himself as a “prototypical academic psychiatrist,” but the path to his specialty in geriatric psychiatry was...

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