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Families have often been obliged to consider a nursing home when aging at home no longer seemed viable. However, now there is an alternative. They can purchase a MEDCottage, a ...

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Aging in place has its definite advantages. It grants seniors more specialized care and privacy than might an institutional setting. However, it also brings a tough question in its wake. ...

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We see it everywhere…the “Miracle” of Botox. The TV screen flashes images of young, smiling faces, with nary a wrinkle in sight. All of a sudden, you find yourself looking ...

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Let My Puppies Go05/05/12

 

Most of us were at least in diapers in the 60’s when women in great numbers started to roar.  The night skies were alight with bonfires burning…what else—their bras? But not ...

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Aging at home has become a buzz word. And that is understandable because this arrangement has strong selling points: Elders receive personalized attention. However, unless it isnn accomplished by careful ...

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It is still somewhat cold outside this spring in New York City. If you follow my advice to the letter in this post, and I’m going to try to include ...

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Balance04/06/12

 

In the celebration of life and movement, let’s go over some of the most beautiful yoga poses that incorporate balance. We will discuss what makes balance so important for health ...

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In Part I of this essay, I wrote about a new Harvard study documenting something that many of us have always known – that it’s possible to slow the aging ...

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During the last years of my mother’s life she lived in a wonderful assisted living residence in Manhattan. It was great that either my sister or my son or myself ...

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Michelle was a size five in high school. She weighed one-hundred ten pounds and was quite athletic. In addition to being the head cheerleader of her Southern High Cougars cheerleading ...

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