Rodger Marion

Update on Aging deals with health care practices to use with elderly patients and clients. It was created as an activity of UTMB’s Center on Aging. The funding for this activity has ended but all 204 essays created for the project are available here.

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Articles by Title (Most recent first)

• June 7, 2018 – Riding in Competition
• November 6, 2017 – Life with Cancer: Texas Oncology Stories of Inspiration
• August 24, 2016 – Theodicy – Why Do We Suffer? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-oL
• August 1, 2015 – You Can Go Home Again – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-ow
• The ETGEC grant funding ended 6-30-15 at 202 articles published.
• Week 202 – June is Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month!  – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-on
• Week 201 – Alzheimer’s Awareness and Adventures – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-og
• Week 200 – Resilience – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-o7
• Week 199 – What To Do When The Rain Comes – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-nQ
• Week 198 – Scores and Tens – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-nF
• Week 197 – Mr. Heinlein and the Cracks in Time – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-nx
• Week 196 – Gender Inequality – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-nq
• Week 195 – Rural Hospitals – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-nl
• Week 194 – Core Strengths – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-ng
• Week 193 – The Mote in Your Eye? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-n8
• Week 192 – Bring Telemedicine into the Present – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-n2
• Week 191 – Chris-In-The-Morning – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-mU
• Week 190 – Out in the World – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-mN
• Week 189 – Digital Data and Death – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-mE
• Week 188 – Virtual Learning Environments – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-mx
• Week 187 – Aging and the Renaissance – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-md
• Week 186 – Barbed Wire Telephones – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-m5
• Week 185 – Springtime in Texas Again – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-lV
• Week 184 – Life’s Reality Can Be Surprising – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-lO
• Week 183 – Loving the Open Road… Still? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-lH
• Week 182 – The Sharing Economy – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-ly
• Week 181 – Will I Remain Rural? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-lt
• Week 180 – What Is Rural? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-lj
• Week 179 – Avatar Perception in Virtual Worlds – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-l8
• Week 178 – 2014 in Review – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-kF
• Week 177 – When Does Aging Begin? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-kv
• Week 176 – Wonders of Technology: The Spoon – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-kq
• Week 175 – Do You Live in a ‘Food Desert?’ – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-ke
• Week 174 – Old and Sick and in Jail – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-k6
• Week 173 – Playing the Old Tune? Finding a New Tune? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-jX
• Week 172 – Harm-Benefit Choices – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-jM
• Week 171 – Might I Try This? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-jG
• Week 170 – Do the Elderly Vote? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-jA
• Week 169 – Saint X and Free Association – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-js
• Week 168 – Art and Death – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-jh
• Week 167 – Creativity and Choices – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-j7
• Week 166 – Grandparenting – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-iZ
• Week 165 – Options for Exercise – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-iV
• Week 164 – Top Posts – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-iF
• Week 163 – How to Pass the Time – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-ix
• Week 162 – Life After Death – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-is
• Week 161 – Cloudy Medical Records  – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-il
• Week 160 – Doldrums of August – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-id
• Week 159 – Helping Hands at Home – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-i9
• Week 158 – War As a Mental Health Disorder – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-hY
• Week 157 – Short of Breath – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-hU
• Week 156 – Cogito Ergo Sum – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-hP
• Week 155 – Social Support and Free Enterprise – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-hM
• Week 154 – After 238 Years, How Geriatric is the Fourth Anyhow? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-hH
• Week 153 – Making Plans Is Hard to Do – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-hE
• Week 152 – Navigating the Information Highway – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-hz
• Week 151 – Pauline – Living in Interesting Times – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-ht
• Week 150 – Ear, Ear – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-hp
• Week 149 – How is “Typical Aging” Different from “Warning Signs” of Dementia? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-hh
• Week 148 – Family Ties – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-hc
• Week 147 – How Do We Prepare for Aging and Retirement? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-h8
• Week 146 – Now Available – Video on Issues in Aging – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-h3
• Week 145 – Friends of all Kinds – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-gV
• Week 144 – Who’s Going to Care for Me? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-gS
• Week 143 – Start the Conversation – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-gN
• Week 142 – The “Blessing” of Longevity in Rural Texas – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-gJ 
• Week 141 – Live Until You Die – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-gF
• Week 140 – When Do We Become Old? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-gz
• Week 139 – No Exit – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-gu
• Week 138 – Ageism – http://wp.me/sH3Dx-ageism
• Week 137 – Aging: What Are the Issues? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-gb
• Week 136 – Not One of Us – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-g2

Articles by Title (oldest to newest)

• Week 1 – Is Aging a Disease? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-p – Published July 8, 2011
• Week 2 – Remembrance – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-I
• Week 3 – Who Is Our Audience? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-P
• Week 4 – Help! My World is Too Young – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-U
• Week 5 – Boom Goes the Country – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-W
• Week 6 – Long Term Care: Is it the Best of Times or Is It the Worst of Times? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-14
• Week 7 – Profits at End of Life – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-17
• Week 8 – A Compassionate RoboCop? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-1b
• Week 9 – Margaritaville or Geezerville? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-1m
• Week 10 – Mindfulness and Breath – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-1r
• Week 11- The Multigenerational Home – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-1z
• Week 12 – Back to the Commune – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-1E
• Week 13 – Out to Pasture – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-1J
• Week 14 – Role Models? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-1P
• Week 15 – Thin, Rich and Young – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-1Y
• Week 16 – What If There Were No Hospice? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-21
• Week 17 – Back to the Commune, Part Two – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-27
• Week 18 – Myths and Surprises – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-2b
• Week 19 – Old Soldiers’ Home – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-2k
• Week 20 – It’s Curious – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-2q
• Week 21 – The Lure of Shopping – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-2w
• Week 22 – An Individual vs. the Population – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-2A
• Week 23 – Schrödinger’s Cat – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-2F
• Week 24 – An Alzheimer’s Christmas – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-2M
• Week 25 – The Cracks in Time Are Getting Wider – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-32
• Week 26 – A Life Reviewed – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-37
• Week 27 – Of Cougars and Founding Fathers – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-3c
• Week 28 – What is Too Old? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-3f
• Week 29 – Al Capone is Old and Sick and in Jail – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-3m
• Week 30 – Jerry Lee Lewis is Old and Still Rockin’ – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-3t
• Week 31 – Persistence of Grief – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-3z
• Week 32 – What Are the Odds? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-3M
• Week 33 – More on Grief – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-3R
• Week 34 – The Six Million Dollar Man Turns 65 – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-3Y
• Week 35 – Yoga as a Lifelong Activity? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-41
• Week 36 – Who Reads Books? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-45
• Week 37 – Will Elders Save the World? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-4b
• Week 38 – What I Wish I’d Done – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-4h
• Week 39 – Purple Prose – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-4o
• Week 40 – The Hidden Meaning in Words – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-4x
• Week 41 – Springtime in Texas – http://wp.me/sH3Dx-285
• Week 42 – Perils of Urbanization – http://wp.me/sH3Dx-292
• Week 43 – Invisible Now? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-4P
• Week 44 – Celebration! – http://wp.me/sH3Dx-304
• Week 45 – What’s That Smell? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-50
• Week 46 – Requiem for a Writer – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-57
• Week 47 – Taking the Message and the Medicine Home – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-5c
• Week 48 – Scoot Me – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-5i
• Week 49 – Being in the Middle – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-5o
• Week 50 – Wisdom in Old Tools – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-5u
• Week 51 – What Is Old Age For? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-5C
• Week 52 – Across All Ages – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-6e
• Week 53 – What is Elderspeak? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-6m
• Week 54 – Life On-Line – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-6r
• Week 55 – How Will the Baby Boomers Age and Die? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-6z
• Week 56 – Doing the Same Thing Over and Over – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-6E
• Week 57 – Lives Lived in East Texas, Part 1 – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-6N
• Week 58 – Lives Lived in East Texas, Part 2 – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-76
• Week 59 – Lives Lived in East Texas, Part 3 – Old People, Old Towns – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-7l
• Week 60 – Remnants of the Day – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-7y
• Week 61 – What It Takes – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-7G
• Week 62 – Falling Over – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-7M
• Week 63 – Staying By One’s Roots – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-7S
• Week 64 – What Are the Needs of Galveston County Senior Citizens? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-8e
• Week 65 – I Don’t Really Want to Go – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-8k
• Week 66 – No Waiting – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-8p
• Week 67 – Everything Dies – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-8s
• Week 68 – The Kindness of Strangers – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-8N
• Week 69 – A View from the Hill – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-8U
• Week 70 – Yet Another Surprise About Aging – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-8Y
• Week 71 – Are Alternate Therapies Effective for Relieving Chronic Pain – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-99
• Week 72 – Fear and Incontinence – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-9k
• Week 73 – Hello in There – Thoughts on Loneliness and Aloneness – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-9o
• Week 74 – Capitalism Abhors a Vacuum – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-9t
• Week 75 – At the End of an Age – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-9z
• Week 76 – 2012 in Review – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-9J   Annual report for 2012
• Week 77 – Need to Know – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-9M
• Week 78 – To Date or Not to Date – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-9W
• Week 79 – Telling Stories – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-a3
• Week 80 – New Old People – New Old Films? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-a9
• Week 81 – Resilient Aging – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-ad
• Week 82 – Shared Decision Making with Patients – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-au
• Week 83 – Delayed Gratification: Benefits of Midlife Fitness – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-aA
• Week 84 – Paying for the End of Life – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-aG
• Week 85 – A Modest Proposal – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-aO
• Week 86 – A Spring Reading List – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-b4
• Week 87 – I’m Confused? Dementia vs. Alzheimer’s? What’s the Difference? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-bb
• Week 88 – Quo Vadis? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-bg
• Week 89 – Who Said Life Was Fair? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-bm
• Week 90 – The Bed Is Not Your Friend – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-bu
• Week 91 – The Bad and the Ugly: Diagnostic Error and Helping Your Patients – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-bB
• Week 92 – Successful Aging – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-bH
• Week 93 – Some Thoughts on Medicinal Herbs: Echinacea – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-bP
• Week 94 – Are You Part of the Future? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-bV
• Week 95 – For Everything, Is There a Season? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-bZ
• Week 96 – Polypharmacy – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-c5
• Week 97 – Top of the World – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-c9
• Week 98 – Growing Old in Prison – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-cf
• Week 99 – Sort This Out! – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-ck
• Week 100 – Mortality and the 100th Blog – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-cq
• Week 101 – They Are All Good Years – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-cu
• Week 102 – Reflections – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-cA
• Week 103 – Rationing for the Elderly – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-cF
• Week 104 – Lost in a Sea of Google – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-cL
• Week 105 – Ethical Wills – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-cP
• Week 106 – The Gamble of Life: Know When to Fold ‘em – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-cX
• Week 107 – Searching for Me – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-d4
• Week 108 – Follow the Money? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-db
• Week 109 – We Hate Change – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-dk
• Week 110 – Vital Signs – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-dp
• Week 111 – Goodbye Yellowbrick Road… – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-dy
• Week 112 – Hidden Dangers of Herbal Supplements  – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-dG
• Week 113 – Hospice: Specialty Care or General Practice? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-dN
• Week 114 – Preventing Sun Damage to Skin – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-dR
• Week 115 – Making Sense of Medicare – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-dX
• Week 116 – Rural Electrification Administration: Roosevelt’s Analogue of Obamacare – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-e2
• Week 117 – Empathy and How to Get It – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-eb
• Week 118 – Living Old: What It Really Means – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-ef
• Week 119 – Texas Pioneer Award – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-ej
• Week 120 – Robots & Us – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-eo
• Week 121 – Aging! Crossing a Bridge Too Soon? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-eB
• Week 122 – Thanksgiving Thoughts – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-eH
• Week 123 – Thoughtfulness and Remembrance – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-eM
• Week 124 – Telehealth – Medicine at a Distance – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-eQ
• Week 125 – Today It Rained – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-eY
• Week 126 – Finding Love at Any Age – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-f4
• Week 127 – A Different Story: Aging in Latin America – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-fb
• Week 128 – The Blog for 2013 in Review – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-fi
• Week 129 – Forget Aging. Let’s All Be Ageless! – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-fl
• Week 130 – Life Goals. Death Goals? – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-fr
• Week 131 – We’re in This Together: Head, Heart, and Hands – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-fy
• Week 132 – Self-Care: The Overlooked Component of Caregiving – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-fG
• Week 133 – Bring Back the HMO – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-fL
• Week 134 – Give a Caregiver a Break – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-fP
• Week 135 – Virtual Ability – http://wp.me/pH3Dx-fU