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Quotes about Adult Education from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
"In several acres of space, we have a memory and aging clinic, an intergenerational school where aging persons can volunteer, art therapy classes, adult education courses, computer classes, and the offices of several organizations such as the Alzheimer's Association and local hospice facilities. This sort of arrangement assembles many important community organizations that meet the multiple needs of aging persons and their families. We often hear that it takes a village to raise a child; well, it also takes a village to help persons age with dignity." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)
"He suggests taking classes through the adult education program in the community building on the other side of town where she can paint, write, put together an ethical will, play cards, learn calming meditation techniques?anything that will keep you active and engaged," as he puts it.
Lastly, he tells Fran that there are drugs available for her condition, which could offer some small benefit and may be worth a try."
- Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)
| "Searight and McLaren, 1998), the expansion of the diagnosis permits the medicalization of adult ADHD to gain further legal validity within the institutions of medicine as well as in employment and adult education.
As ADHD was coming to be identified as a disorder among adults in the early 1990s, individuals began to pursue legal actions to lay claim to rights under legislation such as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Although rights are guaranteed under these statutes, they are enforceable only through
civil suit." - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.)
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