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National Family Caregivers Assoc., president Suzanne Mintz is awarded one of the Purpose Prizes from Civic Ventures to celebrate and support outstanding individuals 60 or older who are producing significant social innovation. NFCA offers family caregivers support, information, resources and community. Free membership at www.thefamilycaregiver.org.
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Today started out okay, nothing particularly special. I woke up to having female problems and Brian, my husband, made us coffee. I had my usual two cups and a couple of ibuprofens, then put supper in the crock pot and was given the luxury of climbing back into bed. It was later on in the day when I got up and was on my way to the kitchen and in passing, stopped a moment for a hug from Brian. He asked me what was wrong and nothing was wrong, it was simply one of those days when I just needed hugging. It was then I noticed something different. Both of his arms, left and right, were snugly wrapped around me.
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Caring for elderly parents as well as their own family many aging baby boomers find they are stressed and dealing with guilt. Overcoming caregiver stress and the guilt feelings that are accompany the role of one person taking care of another is possible.
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Helen Myers and Ed Rightor won The Dow Chemical Companys Human Element Award for their involvement with Walk MS and Bike MS. Meet these leaders and learn how Dow encourages employees to do great work for their communities — and for the MS community nationwide.
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Leeza’s Place is a program of The Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation, which Leeza founded after her mother’s diagnosis with Alzheimer’s disease.
I promised my mother I would tell her story and make it count. I began to fulfill that promise by opening what we call Leeza’s Place, our resource centers which serve as an oasis for [...]
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Web 2.0 is commonly associated with technologies such as weblogs (blogs), social bookmarking, wikis, podcasts, RSS feeds (and other forms of many-to-many publishing), social software, and web application programming interfaces (APIs) .
Here is a list of the companies nominated:
Health Portals and Content:
LifeMojo Helps you achieve your health and fitness goals, by making you eat right, [...]
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Swine flue, Madcow disease, and SARS seem to grab all the headlines but thousands of people worldwide are afflicted with rare conditions that few people have even heard of.
We'll take a look at some of the most rare diseases from "Alice in Wonderland" syndrome which may have inspired Lewis Carroll to a disease that drove England's King George III mad.
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Our current private health insurance system is the most costly, wasteful, complicated and bureaucratic in the world. Today, 46 million people have no health insurance. Even more are underinsured with high deductibles and co-payments. Close to 20,000 Americans die each year because they don't have regular access to a doctor.
The time is now for our nation to address the most profound moral and economic issue we face. The time is now for our country to join the rest of the industrialized world and provide cost-effective, comprehensive quality health care to every man, woman and child in our country. The time is now to take on the powerful special interests in the insurance and pharmaceutical industries and pass a single-payer national health care program.
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From the moment I took office as President, the central challenge we have confronted as a nation has been the need to lift ourselves out of the worst recession since World War II. In recent months, we have taken a series of extraordinary steps, not just to repair the immediate damage to our economy, but to build a new foundation for lasting and sustained growth. We are creating new jobs. We are unfreezing our credit markets. And we are stemming the loss of homes and the decline of home values.
But even as we have made progress, we know that the road to prosperity remains long and difficult. We also know that one essential step on our journey is to control the spiraling cost of health care in America.
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Should I sing to my father? He seems to like it. Danny in Colorado, 51
Absolutely! It’s very important to do things that make him happy. Song and rhythm are usually a real comfort to the elderly. They both bring back long term memories. It’s a physiological fact that a person becomes happier when singing. Singing [...]
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The general guidelines for the anti-aging diet are: keep your calorie consumption and saturated fat intake down; eat plenty of wholegrain, oily fish and fresh fruit and vegetables; and cut down on salt and sugar. In addition to these general guidelines, there are specific foods that have a roll in anti-aging and that you should regularly include in your diet.
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The day before the stroke we played at Lake Henshaw. Lake Henshaw is in the middle of nowhere, hours away from Los Angeles. There was hay everywhere and millions of grasshoppers, some as big as your fingers. We played a set which was taped by Paul Shelasky, and afterwards I heard a song that I sang, "Devil With The Devil." The day was beautiful, clear and hot, and we were out in the country. I remember that our band, the Good Ol' Persons, and this other band, the Shy Persons, were going to do the same song, which is a no-no if they're too close together. I think the other band finally changed their song - we were the headliners, we could do any song we wanted to! I thanked them anyway.
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Baby boomers are expressing they want to stay in their home as they age.They do not want move out of their community.
Baby boomers are a unique aging group. They are different from previous generations in that they plan on living longer, active and healthier lives. Baby boomers plan to live comfortably, and age in surroundings that are familiar.
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With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling uses an amazing new presentation tool, Gapminder, to debunk several myths about world development. Rosling is professor of international health at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, and founder of Gapminder, a nonprofit that brings vital global data to life. (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA.) [...]
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Just short of four years ago when my husband of 40 years had a massive hemorrhagic stroke, we were settled into what we had planned as a quiet retirement, with visits with our three grandchildren and their parents, doing a bit of travelling and a lot of gardening. Then the monster stroke happened and it [...]
