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Elderhostel’s Marty Knowlton and Lifelong Learning

March 22, 2009 by Alvaro Fernandez

A per­son who helped rein­vent “aging”, “retire­ment” and “learn­ing”, con­tribut­ing to the cog­ni­tive health of mil­lions of indi­vid­u­als as a result:

Mar­tin P. ‘Mar­ty’ Knowl­ton dies at 88; co-founder of Elder­hos­tel (Los Ange­les Times)

- “Mar­tin P. “Mar­ty” Knowl­ton, a world trav­el­er who fought ageism by co-found­ing Elder­hos­tel, a pro­gram that pio­neered learn­ing vaca­tions for mature adults, has died. He was 88.”

- “Knowl­ton died Thurs­day of nat­ur­al caus­es at a nurs­ing home in Ven­tu­ra, said David Bian­co, who start­ed Elder­hos­tel with his friend in 1975.”

- “When he was about 50, Knowl­ton became high­ly annoyed by two things: the pre­vail­ing wis­dom that “as you got old­er, your mind auto­mat­i­cal­ly began to fail” and the gov­ern­ment noti­fy­ing him that “old age begins at 55,” he told the Ven­tu­ra Coun­ty Star in 2000.”

The arti­cle: Here

Elder­hos­tel web­site: Here

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: ageism, aging, David-Bianco, ElderHostel, Learning, learning-vacations, Lifelong-learning, Martin-Knowlton, Marty-Knowlton, mature-adults, Nursing-Home, retirement, wisdom

Henry G. Molaison (H.M.): On Learning and Memory

December 5, 2008 by Alvaro Fernandez

H. M., an Unfor­get­table Amne­si­ac, Dies at 82 — Obituary

- “On Tues­day evening at 5:05, Hen­ry Gus­tav Molai­son  known world­wide only as H. M., to pro­tect his pri­va­cy died of res­pi­ra­to­ry fail­ure at a nurs­ing home in Wind­sor Locks, Conn. His death was con­firmed by Suzanne Corkin, a neu­ro­sci­en­tist at the Mass­a­chu­setts Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy, who had worked close­ly with him for decades. Hen­ry Molai­son was 82.”

- “From the age of 27, when he embarked on a life as an object of inten­sive study, he lived with his par­ents, then with a rel­a­tive and final­ly in an insti­tu­tion. His amne­sia did not dam­age his intel­lect or rad­i­cal­ly change his per­son­al­i­ty. But he could not hold a job and lived, more so than any mys­tic, in the moment.”

- “The impli­ca­tions were enor­mous. Sci­en­tists saw that there were at least two sys­tems in the brain for cre­at­ing new memories.”

Full arti­cle on a fas­ci­nat­ing sto­ry: H. M., an Unfor­get­table Amne­si­ac, Dies at 82 — Obituary

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: amnesia, brain, H.M., Henry-Gustav-Molaison, HM, Learning, memory, MIT, Nursing-Home, Suzanne-Corkin

12 People Who Are Changing Your Retirement

February 17, 2008 by Alvaro Fernandez

Quick link to an excel­lent and inspir­ing arti­cle in the Wall Street Jour­nal: 12 Peo­ple Who Are Chang­ing Your Retirement
(open access dur­ing a week)

[Read more…] about 12 Peo­ple Who Are Chang­ing Your Retirement

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: AARP, age, aging, Bernard-Osher, CCRC, change, Eden-Alternative, Erickson-Retirement-Communities, Michael-Merzenich, minds-in-shape, Nursing-Home, Posit-Science-Corp, purpose, retirement, Retirement-Education-Osher-Lifelong-Learning-Institutes

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