Did you miss last week's most-read Changing Aging blog posts? Ecumen's online visitors found these articles most interesting:

Washington Post: My Mother Had Alzheimer’s. Will My Fate Be the Same?
As she turned 50, inquisitive science writer Carol Berkower was haunted by the prospect of getting Alzheimer’s — the disease that killed her mother. She posed the question: Is there a way to cut through the hype and find out what measures, if any, will help stave off dementia?  Then she went on a fact-finding mission that took her all the way back to the prominent New York doctor who first diagnosed her mother.

Ecumen Scenic Shores Gets Medicare’s Highest 5-Star Quality Rating
Ecumen Scenic Shores Care Center in Two Harbors, Minn., has received the highest possible overall quality rating of 5 stars from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS).

World's Oldest Twin Brothers Offer Advice on Wine, Women and Living Long
Belgians Pieter and Paulus Langerock have been best friends for 102 years. The twin brothers, born on July 8 1913, have been inseparable since birth and rarely spend time apart, and even share the same room at their retirement home outside the Belgian town of Ghent. They have some advice on living long and well. 

Local Newspaper Profiles Ecumen Le Center Housing Director Mandy Filter, Citing Her Leadership, Innovation and Caring Spirit
Mandy Filter, Housing Director at Ecumen Le Center, was recently profiled by the Le Center Leader’s Dana Melius, who writes that she is “passionate about her job, her work, her co-workers, her residents.  It resonates in her voice, her smile.”

Ecumen Century Club: Guthrie Theater Legend Annette Garceau Celebrates Her 102nd Birthday
Legendary Guthrie Theater costume designer Annette Garceau, a resident of Ecumen Lakeview Commons in Maplewood, Minn., just celebrated her 102^nd birthday. 

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