I was privileged to attend the Blogger’s Conference at the Hallmark International Headquarters in Kansas City last week (disclosure: I was a guest of Hallmark, they paid. I have not been asked to write anything in particular about the visit. In fact, they never discussed what we were going to write about at all).
Hallmark invited […]
Eek! Hallmark entry somehow published itself, it wasn’t ready yet!
I’ll put it back up when I finish it.
Sorry.
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An ominous sign for a cancer patient is when cancer spreads to the liver.
There’s not usually a lot that can be done, but, an interesting finding in Science Daily reports:
Placing tiny radioactive spheres directly into the liver through its blood supply halted growth of tumors that had spread to the organ in 71 percent […]
With the holidays coming up, many people will be spending time with family, including aging parents. Perhaps people are in need of inspiration for activities in addition to just visiting.
Maryan Pelland at Suite 101 lists some intergenerational activities that can be shared with an older person.
These family fun activities include an all ages party, […]
In a different twist on children and elderly parents, the Canadian Press reports that we are seeing the first generation of “intellectually disabled” who are outliving their parents.
Advances in medicine and technology means everyone has the chance to live longer, and, there’s speculation over what will happen to intellectually disabled adults whose parents have […]
And the winner from the last GenBetween Blogtoberfest entry is:
Caryn from the Bailey Family!
Caryn’s name and comment number was selected using a handy dandy random number generator, and, she wins an extra large organizing bag from Lara Gallagher
Do you want to get more organized but you’re afraid if you put stuff away you’ll never […]
A while back (no pun intended, but, it made me laugh, anyway) I told you that my dad’s back problems were getting worse.
Well, today, he reports that he has nearly cured himself.
All it took was changing his sleeping position from his side to his back (I can hear all the physical therapists recoil in […]
Though memory has been shown to decline with age, there’s a lot of research out there that suggests regular “mental exercise” can stave off some of this loss.
Additionally, you can develop techniques to help yourself keep track of important things.
Online Education Database has some great tips to improve memory.
There are 75 helpful things that, […]
Where Elders Blog is the creation of Ronni Bennett at Time Goes By.
It’s a collection of bloggers over 50 and their workspaces.
I love to see pictures of where bloggers work, it helps me to visualize who they are and what they are doing as I read their sites.
Also, maybe the list of “older” […]
An interesting study from Stanford University School of Medicine has produced a blood test that might predict the risk of Alzheimer’s Disease.
As reported in Science Daily:
They found that the blood test could indicate who had Alzheimer’s with 90 percent agreement with clinical diagnoses, and could predict the onset of Alzheimer’s two to six […]
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