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  • The Biggest Pain in Growing Older

    Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common source of disability in older adults.  Specifically, it is OA centered on the knee that debilitates more older adults than any other single condition.  Why? OA takes time to develop and those adults...

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  • Six Tips for Better Sleep in Older Adults

    We’ve all used the expression, “Don’t lose any sleep over it.”  Turns out that losing sleep is one thing that can happen a lot more frequently as we age and it often is associated with other serious medical conditions.  ...

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  • Four Tips for the Caregiver To Do List

    We all know of someone who has received that call out of the blue that a mother or father has fallen and fractured a hip or has had some other unexpected medical emergency that demands a caregiver response.  We...

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  • Naturally Sweet Seniors are Better

    We hear a lot of news these days about the obesity epidemic, and it is important to appreciate the impact of excess body weight/fat on the heart and the circulatory system.  Some also point to the impact that excess...

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  • Boomers on the Move?

    It seems that anything that has to do with baby boomers is big these days.   More boomers are retiring, more are changing careers, and yes, more are moving.  Why?  Very simply, there are a lot of baby boomers.  The...

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  • Three Tips for the Diabetes Caregiver

    If you are a caregiver to someone with diabetes – Type 1 or Type 2 – then you know that one of the biggest challenges is the fact that food seems to have become the enemy to a diabetic. ...

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  • Tough Talks with Parents – Part 2

    In the first of this two-part series, I talked about conversations involving changes in life where you as the child of an older parent may be required to step up to help your parent or see that proper help...

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  • Tough Talks with Parents – Part 1

    In earlier posts I have talked about some ways to broach difficult subjects with an older parent, talks that are about life changes, one of the harder among them was giving up the car keys. This is going to...

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