I am making this short because I want to link you to an informative blog from my fellow about.com guide Trisha Torrey. After her father’s recent passing, she was cleaning out her father’s apartment and came across boxes of drugs he had taken, then stopped taking, over the years.åÊ Boxes...
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The 2014 Happiness Calendar
By Henry S. Miller, Author of The Serious Pursuit of Happiness. Amp up the amount of happiness in your life each and every month of the year by intentionally focusing on 12 strategies that the science of happiness and well being has proven can increase your feelings of happiness and...
Impact of Family Caregiving on Work (VIDEO)
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Impact of Family Caregiving on Work
The AARP’s updated report on family caregivers and work shows increasing numbers of caregivers in the workplace. The ÛÏaverageÛ U.S. caregiver is a 49-year-old woman who works outside the home and spends nearly 20 hours per weekÛÓthe equivalent of another parttime jobÛÓproviding unpaid care to her mother for nearly five...
Hip Fractures and Sleeping Pills – Deadly Combo (VIDEO)
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CarePlanners New Model for Helping Mom and Dad (VIDEO)
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Infographic on How We Spend
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Hip Fractures and Sleeping Pills – Deadly Combo
Following a Medicare Part D change in 2006, physicians started prescribing sleeping pills such as Ambien, Lunesta and Sonata for nursing home residents with insomnia. The newer sleeping pills were thought to be safer for residents than benzodiazepine hypnotics, researchers noted. But in a study by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical...
CarePlanners New Model for Helping Mom and Dad
As you made your way back home from an elder relative’s home during the holidays, you may have noticed some things that suggested that he/she could need some extra care. I had the pleasure of meeting the founder of CarePlanners, Alan Blaustein, in the fall of last year and learn...
Drink Wine Fall Less (VIDEO)
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