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What a 'Tripeldemic' Means to Your Body
by Special
(Health & Wellness December 13, 2022)
Hoe many times will I get sick this winter?…
Topics:
Advice, Guidance & Mentoring
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COVID-19
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Crisis
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Disease
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Health Care
Sick and Struggling to Pay
by Naom Levey / NPR
(Finance and Legal June 25, 2022)
100 millioin people in the U.S. live with medical debt…
Topics:
Disease
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Financial
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Health Care
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Social Issues
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Statistics
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Trends
Praise the Lord and Pass the Prozac
by Faith A. Watkins and David N. Watkins
(Health & Wellness January 28, 2022)
A sneak peak at a book of devotionals for mental health, coming in August…
Topics:
Advice, Guidance & Mentoring
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Bible
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Contemplation, Insight
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Coping
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Depresson
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Faith
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Health Care
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History
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Inspiration
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Learning
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Mental Health
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Optimal Aging
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Wellness
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Wisdom
The Staggering, Exhausting, Invisible Costs of Caring for America's Elderly
by Anne Helen Peterson / Vox
(Finance and Legal August 28, 2021)
As millions 'age in place,' millions more must figure out how to provide their loved ones with increasingly complex care…
Topics:
Circumstances, Life Events
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Coping
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Cost of Living
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Crisis
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Financial
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Health Care
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Legal
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Optimal Aging
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Social Issues
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Statistics
Medical Debt
by U.S. Census Bureau staff
(Finance and Legal April 10, 2021)
How serious is it and who has the most?…
Topics:
Demographics
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Financial
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Health Care
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Statistics
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Trends
Rethinking Dementia
by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments March 5, 2021)
Alzheimer's is but one of a web of overlapping forms of dementia, all of which are being pursued by researchers around the world…
Topics:
Health Care
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Memory (failing, improving)
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Optimal Aging
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Research
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Wellness
How to Sign Up for COVID-19 Vaccine in Your State
by Selena Simmon-Duffin / NPR
(Health & Wellness February 19, 2021)
Advice and an interactive tool to get state-by-state information…
Topics:
COVID-19
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Crisis
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Disease
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Government
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Health Care
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News
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Wellness
Planning to Get Vaccinated?
by U.S. Census Bureau staff
(Health & Wellness January 30, 2021)
About half of adults (and three quarters of seniors) yet to receive the COVID-19 vaccine definitely plan on doing so . . .where do you stand?…
Topics:
COVID-19
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Disease
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Health Care
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News
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Opportunity
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Wellness
COVID Vaccine Information Scammers Don't Want You to Know
by Stu Johnson
(Health & Wellness December 26, 2020)
Behind the good news of vaccines becoming available are scammers who prey on vulnerable seniors…
Topics:
COVID-19
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Crime, Justice, Punishment
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Current Events, News
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Fraud
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Health Care
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News
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Risk
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Wellness
Opinions and Reflections
by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments July 4, 2020)
An example from a discussion of language raises questions about prescription drug dosage and safety…
Topics:
Addictions
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Communication
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Health Care
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Language, Meaning
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Wellness
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Writing
Coronavirus Chaos
by Greg Asimakoupoulos
(Rhymes & Reasons March 7, 2020)
Where following our fears finds us…
Topics:
COVID-19
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Current Events, News
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Fears, Concerns
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Health Care
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News
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Wellness
Up in Smoke
by Greg Asimakoupoulos
(Rhymes & Reasons September 28, 2019)
Vaping and pot are taking a toll…
Topics:
Current Events, News
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Disease
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Health Care
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Lifestyle, General
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Social Issues
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Wellness
Suicide
by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments September 10, 2019)
Focusing on prevention…
Topics:
Dying and Death
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Depresson
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Health Care
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Social Issues
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Trends
Silence
by Dan Seagren
(Health & Wellness September 8, 2019)
It can be golden, but…
Topics:
Coping
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Health Care
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Relationships
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Wellness
Doctors and Others
by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments January 13, 2019)
Looking at the trends…
Topics:
Health Care
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History
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Predictions & Forecasts
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Trends
Ten Years Cancer Free
by James N. Watkins
(Health & Wellness October 27, 2018)
The top ten things I learned from cancer…
Topics:
Faith
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Fears, Concerns
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God
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Grace
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Health Care
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Learning
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Stress
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Wellness
Addiction
by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments July 8, 2018)
A call for understanding and compassion…
Topics:
Abuse and Addiction
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Addictions
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Advocacy
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Compassion
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Health Care
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Lifestyle, General
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Risk
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Social Issues
A Tribute to Wingless Angels
by Greg Asimakoupoulos
(Rhymes & Reasons May 12, 2018)
In recognition of National Nurses Week…
Topics:
Compassion
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Health Care
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Thanks, Thankfulness, Thanksgiving
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Tribute, Testimony
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Work
The Dilemma of Dementia
by Greg Asimakoupoulos
(Rhymes & Reasons October 22, 2017)
A call to compassion…
Topics:
Compassion
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Health Care
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Memory (failing, improving)
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Relationships
Help, Lord, I'm Falling Apart!
by Stu Johnson
(Health & Wellness October 22, 2017)
Calling on faith when your body starts to fail
Topics:
Coping
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Disease
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Faith
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Health Care
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Optimal Aging
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Relationships
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Wellness
Too Many Pills?
by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments October 15, 2017)
Heed the warnings!…
Topics:
Health Care
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Lies, Deception, Scams
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Wellness
18 or 21?
by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments April 10, 2016)
Age or prohibition? . .. two approaches to cancer and smoking…
Topics:
Health Care
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News
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Politics
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Science & Technology
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Social Issues
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Wellness
I Can't Hear You
by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments February 21, 2016)
Hearing difficulties take an enormous toll but new advances can be beneficial…
Topics:
Communication
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Coping
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Health Care
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Wellness
Amazing Breakthroughs
by Bill Nichols
(Faith January 6, 2016)
Medical breakthroughs in 2015 give us reason to think about becoming 'instruments of breakthrough' in 2016…
Topics:
Achievements
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Faith
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Health Care
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Hopes & Dreams
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Inspiration
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News
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Opportunity
A Senior Train Wreck?
by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments November 29, 2015)
The predictions of a "train wreck" in the field of aging by a well known authority seem more feasible today…
Topics:
Crisis
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Health Care
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Predictions & Forecasts
10 Early Signs of Alzheimer's
—Comparing normal age-related changes
submitted by Stu Johnson
(Health & Wellness September 9, 2015)
When is it time to suspect Alzheimer's? This guide from the Alzheimer's Association compares early signs of the disease with normal changes most of us experience as we age…
Topics:
Change
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Disease
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Health Care
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Memories
Mom had Alzheimer's - What is my risk of getting it?
by Carol Brekower
(Health & Wellness September 9, 2015)
The Washington Post reporter, whose mother had Alzheimer's, seeks out the doctor who treated her for the latest information on the disease…
Topics:
Personal Stories (Biography/Autobiography)
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Disease
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Health Care
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Memory (failing, improving)
Eight Pills Old
by James N. Watkins
(Senior Moments July 12, 2015)
A humorous, yet thankful, look at the increasing number of medications that come with age…
Topics:
Health Care
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Humor
Servants of the Most High God
by Greg Asimakoupoulos
(Rhymes & Reasons May 19, 2013)
A tribute to hospice nurses…
Topics:
Health Care
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Service
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Tribute, Testimony
Residential Care
by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments January 29, 2012)
These suggested anonymous objectives that crossed my desk some years ago recently resurfaced and are worth repeating…
Topics:
Health Care
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Housing
Risky Business
by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments July 31, 2011)
We ought to be aware of what health factors may linger on our doorstep....
Topics:
Health Care
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Risk
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Wellness
Healthy Priorities
by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments August 29, 2010)
Being a cancer survivor I heartily recommend some of the things we can do (as well as those we ought not be doing)…
Topics:
Advice, Guidance & Mentoring
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Disease
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Health Care
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Wellness
Good News Bad News
by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments October 18, 2009)
Some of you probably know that recently I had some good news and some bad news&helliip;
Topics:
Disease
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Gratitute
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Health Care
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Wellness
Health Insurance
by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments August 16, 2009)
We're hearing a lot about health care and insurance, including the number who are uninsured…
Topics:
Cost of Living
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Financial
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Health Care
Debilitated Seniors
by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments August 9, 2009)
That word debilitated is a frightening word…
Topics:
Assisted Living and Long Term Care
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Family
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Health Care
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Wellness
Health Care
by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments June 7, 2009)
Health-care reform will not be pain free…
Topics:
Financial
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Health Care
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Politics
More About Dimentia
by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments October 14, 2007)
Dementia is not a very pleasant thought…but there are a few things we can do about it…
Topics:
Coping
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Disease
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Health Care
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Wellness
A Declaration of Dependence
by Greg Asimakoupoulos
(Rhymes & Reasons October 7, 2007)
The overmedicating of America revealed…
Topics:
Health Care
Intelligent Bystanders
by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments October 6, 2007)
Quite recently, the medical profession has made it known that we can have a positive senior moment rather than a negative one…
Topics:
Advice, Guidance & Mentoring
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Health Care
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Trouble
Big, Bad Wolves
by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments August 5, 2007)
How the top ten causes of death have changed over the last century…
Topics:
Demographics
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Health Care
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History
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Statistics
Dementia Rethought
by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments January 28, 2007)
Memory loss is not, and I repeat, is not a phenomenon belonging only to seniors.…
Topics:
Disaster
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Health Care
Tobacco Road
by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments December 17, 2006)
Seniors seldom if ever take up smoking although it has been known to happen.…
Topics:
Disease
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Health Care
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Statistics
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Trends
My Medicine Cabinet
by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments December 3, 2006)
Seniors, we're told, love medicines. Often, the more the better. If a physician says "take two aspirins and go to bed" we're liable to reason "if I take three or four it ought to be better."…
Topics:
Coping
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Health Care
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Wellness
Happy Marketing
by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments September 24, 2006)
Now, we all know that seniors take a lot of drugs, probably more than is necessary. Yet we often beg the doctor to let us try a new drug cleverly hyped in the media.…
Topics:
Advertising
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Cost of Living
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Health Care
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Media
Un-holy Smoke
by Greg Asimakoupoulos
(Rhymes & Reasons September 17, 2006)
A call to kick an unhealthy habit…
Topics:
Disease
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Health Care
Spill Proof
by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments September 10, 2006)
Falls account for the highest number of accidents occurring among seniors, often leading to impairment and even premature death.…
Topics:
Health Care
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Wellness