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What do you do, and what do you tell kids, if Grandma is demented and in a nursing home? Move the whole party to the home. Tell the children, "Grandma may not recognize you, but she's still your grandma, and she likes to be touched and to hear our voices." Teach them to be affectionate, even if it's only one way. These are great moments to teach children optimism in the face of difficulty. They will imitate how we cope...
Walk Man Inventor: Yoshiyuki Sankai, University of Tsukuba Availability: Near future, $14,000-$19,000 To Learn More: sanlab.kz.tsukuba.ac.jp Enter ... Mecha-Grandma! Japanese researchers have developed a robotic exoskeleton to help the elderly and disabled walk and even lift heavy objects like the jug of water above. It's called the Hybrid Assistive Limb, or HAL. (The inventor has obviously never seen 2001: A Space Odyssey.) Its brain is a computer (housed in a backpack) that learns to mimic the wearer's gait and posture; bioelectric sensors pick up signals transmitted from the brain to the muscles...
...John Ratey, co-author of the landmark Driven to Distraction, says seniors are often referred by their children in a "stair-step" sequence--first the grandchild is found to have ADD, then the parent and finally Grandma or Grandpa. Recalls Virginia Cooper, 73, who has a grandchild with ADHD: "My daughter said, 'Mother, I think you've got it.' And I said, 'Don't be ridiculous.' But then I read about it and realized that maybe she was right. I've always been distracted. I cannot stick to one thing. It's like somebody's changing channels in my brain...
...actually golden, and she knows she's in Oregon when she crosses the Columbia River. When Cristina and her sister Alysha were little, they posed their own geography question. As the plane broke through the overcast gray into a brilliant blue sky dotted with white clouds, Alysha, 4, asked, "Grandma, is this heaven?" Foose's response, after a pause, was, "No, not heaven but getting very close...
...know each other more profoundly. "Grandkids learn to see their grandfather or grandmother not just as someone who reads stories," says Westport, Conn., clinical psychologist Sara Moss Herz, "but as a person with their own activities and interests. It sparks a different way of connecting." Cristina Greig says her grandma Betty Foose's example taught her that girls can do anything they want. Foose treasures letters that Cristina and her sisters have written to her acknowledging her influence in their lives...