What I Learned Spreading Garden Mulch… By: Dr. Roger Landry, MD, MPH Last spring, I spent hours preparing my flower and ornamental grass beds and then spreading mulch. It wasn’t work I was used to. But, I resolved to be mindful about it rather than complain and think about what I’d do once it was done. Along the way, something […]
What Does It Mean to Be Spiritual? By: Dr. Roger Landry, MD, MPH Dr. Harold Koenig, a physician at Duke University and an international authority on spirituality and health, tells us that spirituality is the “personal quest for understanding answers to the ultimate questions about life, about meaning, and about relationship to the transcendent. ”What is particularly appealing about […]
Wear More Purple! (Never Act Your Age) Dr. Roger Landry, MD, MPH There’s a poem out there by Jenny Joseph entitled, “When I Am Old.” And it begins like this: “When I am an old woman I shall wear purple, with a red hat that doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me … But maybe I ought to practice a little […]
The Wonder of Childhood By: Dr. Roger Landry, MD, MPH Never forget the wonder of childhood. The more we remain childlike (not “childish”) – where we’re learning new things, exploring and growing – that’s how we stay healthy and make life interesting! In childhood, we heard the admonition to “act our age.” But for the older adult, it’s time […]
The Most Important Thing You’ll Do Today By: Dr. Roger Landry, MD, MPH When I was in my medical training, I was taught that if I could not bandage it, sew it up, treat it with medication, cut it out or otherwise physically modify it, then it was not for me to attempt to heal. Only several decades later […]
Tapping into Human Capital By: Dr. Roger Landry, MD, MPH “It’s time we unleash the superhero that is the collective resources of our older adult population onto the problems of our society,” I announced during my keynote at Masterpiece Living’s 2015 Lyceum. I was met with a few inquisitive looks, but for the most part – everyone understood. For 99% […]
Serving Others By: Dr. Roger Landry, MD, MPH Most veterans will tell you that their time in service was among the most meaningful and rewarding in their lives. It doesn’t take much thought to understand why. We are human, and our distant ancestors struggled in a hostile world to survive. They did survive, and we are here today because […]
Observing Miracles By: Dr. Roger Landry, MD, MPH “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” ~Albert Einstein […]
Never Act Your Age! By: Dr. Roger Landry, MD, MPH Dr. Ellen Langer, a Harvard University researcher, conducted a now famous study back in the late seventies. Using older men as subjects, she immersed them in an environment from twenty years earlier. Room trappings were from the fifties. Conversation about fifties-era topics was in the present tense. Recorded radio programs […]
Laugh Your Way to Health By: Dr. Roger Landry, MD, MPH When author, political journalist and world peace advocate, Norman Cousins, learned that he had a degenerative spinal disease, he did what no one would have expected … he laughed. Armed with Marx Brothers movies and reruns of Candid Camera, he immediately noticed that within ten minutes of laughing, his pain […]