At our support group for caregivers of persons with Alzheimer’s last night, we gave a preview of selected pieces for a new exhibit, Representing Alzheimer’s. We hope to add more works on this important topic soon and will announce subsequent events on this blog. We also are actively seeking new submissions – please contact me [...]
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No posts here for quite some time, we have been so busy with multiple projects, as follows: Bachelor’s to Masters students are finishing up their projects on consultation within the virtual world (for a caregiver support group for persons with Alzheimer’s or dementia) and the interface between real life and Second Life activities. Both are [...]
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On May 13, Graduate Assistants Bodi MacIntyre, Angelica Tremmor, and I presented a talk at Virtual Ability about our expanded healthy aging exhibit, which has now opened to the public in its new location at Fatima’s Cherished. The beautiful tropical island setting lends itself well to the theme and exhibit title, The Garden of Healthy [...]
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Our stroke awareness exhibit, with its displays, quizzes, and free gifts, is now up and running at HealthInfo Island. …the island is home to a consumer health library and a medical library, as well as virtual outposts or displays run by the National Library of Medicine’s Special Information Services, contractors for the National Institutes of [...]
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