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 […]

Inspiration By Dr. Roger Landry, MD, MPH I have a game, of sorts, I play with my grandchildren. When they are getting all wound up with excitement, out of the blue I will ask them, “What’s the most important thing you will be doing today?” They smile because I have asked them this question many times over their young lives. […]

 “I Don’t Have Time to Unplug!” By: Dr. Roger Landry, MD, MPH Remember this guy? He’s the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland, and he’s always late and in a rush. How many of us can relate? I often hear the phrase, “I don’t have time to unplug.” What that means when we say this is that we’re surrendering to […]

How Many Times Today Did You Feel In a Rush? By: Dr. Roger Landry, MD, MPH  How many times today did you feel rushed?  How often do you worry?  We tend to pride ourselves on how much we can accomplish at warp speed, while juggling several tasks, simultaneously. Technology and societal values delude us into believing we are indeed effectively […]

How Forgiveness Heals the Forgiver By: Dr. Roger Landry, MD, MPH It happens all the time – Your crazy uncle makes an embarrassing remark about you during a family reunion and gives away a secret. A guy in a big SUV cuts you off because he’s too busy talking on the cell phone to notice you were right there. Your boss […]

Forgiveness   By: Dr. Roger Landry, MD, MPH  “As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.”   ~ Nelson Mandela (on Forgiveness)  Longitudinal studies in Alameda and Tecumseh, as well as in Scandinavia and Japan, have clearly established […]