A recent study has shown that exercise may slow Alzheimer’s brain shrinkage:
Analysis found that participants who were more physically fit had less brain shrinkage than less-fit participants. However, they didn’t do significantly better on tests for mental performance.
While it’s only a starting point on the connection between Alzheimer’s and exercise, it’s certainly worth noting this […]
I’m a nurse, and I work in a hospital, and it can be a high pressure environment.
And, goodness knows I’ve seen poor behavior from the likes of staff in all positions. I’ve been threatened more than once and I’ve had a phone thrown at my head at work. Unfortunately, these instances were physicians, […]
As the workforce ages, so do their parents and workers who are absent from their jobs to care for their parents cost their employers a lot of money.
Some statistics say that it’s a wide spread issue:
According to Barbara McVicker, author of the new book “Stuck in the Middle…shared stories and tips for caregiving your elderly […]
We’re Catholic, and my daughter was confirmed today. It’s a big deal, new dress party, gifts etc.
Since we were going to have some friends over afterward, we had to clean the house (I know! We do it every now and then) and I ran across some family knick-knacks (when you’re the only child of an […]
This is kind of a fleeting thought, but there’s so much advice out there for people who need to talk to their aging parents about planning for the future, where’s the advice for aging parents who need to talk to their children, but the children don’t want to talk about it?
Everything you read implies that […]
I have a contest going on over at Career and Kids for all you tax procrastinators.
Win one of 3 copies of Turbo Tax Deluxe (a $49.95 value) just by leaving a comment!
File from the comfort of you own home. Hurry, contest ends Thursday April 3rd, 2008.
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Robin Roberts left her wig behind and looked fabulous on the runway of Isaac Mizrahi’s Live Fashion Show.
Her colleagues dared her, last July when she was diagnosed with breast cancer, knowing that she had a long road ahead of her.
Robin even had some help from Supermodel Tyra Banks to get ready.
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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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You may have already seen this article, but, in case not, I present the story of Oscar the Cat, who, apparently, has the ability to predict a resident’s death in the nursing home where he lives.
From the New England Journal of Medicine:
Since he was adopted by staff members as a kitten, Oscar the Cat […]
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