By Meredith Kimple From our first trips to the dentist as children, we are drilled with reminders to brush our teeth, floss daily, and stay away from candy (to our dismay). Oral health is a component of our wellbeing that we maintain largely out of habit, […]
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I confess. Coffee is not just a drink. It’s an experience. There’s so much more to coffee than just merely drinking it. Just ask a coffee drinker. As for me, it has nothing to do with taste, but has become about ritual (the daily routine of standing […]
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Study: Elderly’s Family Caregivers Need Help, Too By Rachel Bluth Republished from Kaiser Health News. Elderly Americans’ well-being is at risk unless the U.S. does much more to help millions of family caregivers who sacrifice their own health, finances and personal lives to look out for […]
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by Meredith Kimple It’s estimated that Alzheimer’s disease affects about one in ten seniors over the age of 65, and 1 in 3 seniors over the age of 85. With those statistics in mind, the prevalence of Alzheimer’s can make developing the disease seem an inevitability. […]
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By Meredith Kimple We all understand the importance of exercise when it comes to maintaining our health, but engaging in beneficial physical activity can become more daunting and difficult as we age. Alternative, gentler forms of exercise, like dancing or swimming, can still be taxing on […]
Read MoreWith a bigger spotlight, the stigma surrounding men and mental health has eased, but there is still quite a void of understanding to be filled. Men often will manifest depression in slightly different ways than women. Depression in men can be exhibited not just by “down” […]
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Two Bodies, One Person by Alan Millikan Couples. Do you know a couple that seems to be one person? One starts the sentence, the other finishes it. One cooks, one cleans. One drives, one navigates. One loses stuff, the other finds it. One is the life […]
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American comedian and actor W.C. Fields once said, “The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.” If only it was that easy! Many of us have endured nights in which sleep refuses to visit, and some of us have encountered sleeping difficulties […]
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It has been some time since I have had the opportunity to check in here at our blog. Since that time, my Dad declined in a heart-breaking spiral which can be typical in the last stages of Alzheimer’s, and we said good-bye to him on August […]
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