Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: asians, deep moral questions, expensive technological toys, general robotix, robot
With so many unfilled positions in the geriatric industry in Japan, General Robotix has invented an $8,000 robot to replace Jillian Michaels DVDs. Standing 2-feet high, it gives Asian seniors a chance to pick on someone their own size.
This leaves us to question: Is technology really the future of the healthcare industry?
Watch. The seniors are trying to relate:
Read the article at CNET
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: aging gone bad, chardonnay, classical music, depressing, drunk, god on a wheel!, Marilyn Hoggatt, Milton Burroughs, Royce Reed, you know nothing!
Royce Reed and Marilyn Hoggatt live in a slum L.A. single room occupancy hotel where they drink chardonnay and play dress up. My voice doesn’t compare, so:
Read the LA Times article
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Brochures? check. Heart-warming grin? check check. Bucket hat? Never leave home without it!
From The Sartorialist
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: gnome, Jacques Cousteau, junk mail, London, vest
Regent Park, London
from The Sartorialist
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: acts of kindness, donation, lock-down, police brutality, violence
This is Ron Daniels, the inventor of the Ultimate Lock. In an act of charity he’s giving away approximately 3,600 to help lock up senior citizens. According to Daniels, the lock can withstand a SWAT team invasion. This old lady sure could have used one:
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 93 year-olds, micro celebrities, senior olympics, stroke, swimming
Mary “Mae” Jackson, 9394, won three gold medals this week at the Bay Area Senior Games – 200-yard backstroke; 100-yard backstroke; and 50-yard backstroke – only to prove she is better than you could ever be.
God willing these will be the only strokes she will ever encounter.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: "sneedy weedy", activities, alias, gangs, rap
You thought they’ve done it all, but seniors in LA are finding something a little more productive to do with their time. The LA Times justifies this as an attempt to relate with the youth:
“A rap class at the Watts Senior Community Center run by Keith Cross enables senior citizens to relate to the young people in their lives.”
Pictured above is: Sarah “Sneedy Weedy” Sneed, 75; Aline Murphy, 73; Charles “Gentle Ben” Herbert, 50; and Mary Franklin. Now, I’m a afraid of what my grandma will call herself in order to relate with me.
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As seniors move towards extinction at a speedy rate, we are raising funds to capture them the way they live today. For $2500, we will make films of seniors in a retirement home, before it’s too late. Any donations are appreciated.
