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Mr Blake added the board could not wait to get started.

"Now that we're that close, we want to get in and get it finished because it is a massive project," he said.

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...ba href=/dementia/a/b: "Trying to remember what my daddy said/Before too much time took away his head." Nostalgia seems to be a strand that runs through all of his work, but it's so much more poignant in the older songs that he sings in the latter part of the film.

There's a sadness, a weariness in the lyrics of "Old Man" ("Doesn't mean that much to me/To mean that much to you") that's missing from Prairie Wind's simple, terse, descriptive phrases.

Responding to my surprise at the film's strong critical reception my roommate joked, "well, they're all old." Maybe there's a bit of truth to that: these are songs about middle age, and the album's simplicity does lend itself to projection.

But does that make it a good album?

There were moments in the film that I liked very much.

The establishing shot of the Ryman theater before the concert, for instance, with its juicy melodrama moon.

Or the moment at the beginning of the show when Young casts a sidelong glance at the cameras and smiles slightly, self-consciously.

But other things I didn't like at all.

After each song Demme fades to black.

Some of these songs are quite short, and it gives the film an accumulatively rushed, hurried feel that belies the music's content.

The Prairie Wind songs typically consist of intimate close-ups, shot in a low light that creates contrasting warm tones and shadows that invokes the fireplace painted on the backdrop.

But the older material is filled with swooping cameras and inexplicably skewed angles that are o...

...ba href=/dementia/a/b, a related disorder, and other chronic conditions that afflict the aged, such as heart disease and diabetes.

Also critical are new therapies to slow these diseases' progression and allow people to remain functional for as long as possible, Perry said.

But precious research dollars won't come unless the American people and health policymakers are worried enough about the societal impact of an exploding senior citizenry, AAR said, and a recent survey suggests that, at the moment, they're not.

In fact, in the Roper survey - released by AAR Thursday - just 4 percent of respondents, when asked about their odds of having a chronic disease by age 65, correctly chose the range 81 percent to 90 percent.

What's more, nearly 40 percent of those polled "vastly underestimated" their chances of having heart disease by retirement age, odds that are estimated at 61 percent to 70 percent, the group said.

Thus, what was needed was a reality check for Washington policymakers and the public, with hard numbers on each chronic condition affecting a graying population, who in terms of gender and race will have a particular disease and its burden on the U.S.

healthcare system and society, AAR said.

And the group's "Silver Book" was born.

Unveiling "The Silver Book: Chronic Disease and Medical Innovation in an Aging Nation" at Thursday's briefing, AAR billed the guide as "an almanac that draws on scores of authoritative studies and analyses by the government, industry, private organiza...