Jared gives an update to the Life’s Waltz community about what’s been happening in the past few weeks in terms of editing, and what to expect from here on out. We’re off to LA for three weeks!

We’ve started editing! Ashley gives a run-down of some basic approaches to editing.

The last in what has become a recent series of videos featuring our beloved Sam. What a riot.

The unfortunate reality is that memory loss is a factor at TVN, as it would be at any retirement community. It’s a natural part of growing old. But surprisingly, some of the people whose respective memories are at times a bit worse off seem to be pairing up. I found a related video clip on CNN this evening. It’s not exactly the same situation as I’m describing, because Alzheimer’s (at least not specifically that form of dementia) does not seem prevalent at TVN: I’m really just talking about plain memory loss. Check out the video below, though. Very insightful! There’s a lot to be said for touch: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/health/2008/12/23/gupta.healing.touch.cnn.

What are y’all’s thoughts? Why would touch and affection play a possible role in staying dementia? What do you think it’s like to live in a place where dementia or memory loss play such a quotidian role? Anyone have any questions that you’d like us to ask any of the residents about that topic, or any other, for you?