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Caring for an Elder Parent

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

A combination of trends is sparking heightened interest in generational issues. For one thing, people are simply living longer due to advances in medicine and preventive health. It's more common today, as opposed to 50 ...

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The Male Midlife Crisis

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

You have an unexplained desire to buy a sports car. You're happily married, but you have started fantasizing about younger women. You go on a crash diet, and dream about starting over, being free. Does ...

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Legal and Financial Planning for Your Children

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

If you or a grandparent plan to help your child financially, before or after death, you'll have to make special arrangements. Because of the laws surrounding public disability benefits -- benefits your adult child could ...

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When the Nest Doesn’t Empty

Friday, June 8th, 2007

For lots of us baby boomer parents, it’s a surprise. Having done our best to move out of our own parents’ homes as soon as we could to assert our independence and get on with ...

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Inhaled Anesthetics Bring Alzheimer’s Risk

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

Experts recently have shed light on the link between general anesthetics and cognitive problems. Anesthetics have been thought to cause cognitive dysfunction for a long time — the link was first highlighted in the 1950s. But ...

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Folic Acid Supplements Could Prevent Dementia

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

Folic acid supplementation could effectively prevent dementia in some people, recent research suggests. The possibility that low folic acid is a modifiable risk factor for dementia has been extensively studied. Dementia is linked to the ...

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Emotions and Weight Affect Testosterone Levels

Monday, January 8th, 2007

A recent study suggests men's testosterone levels are significantly affected by their health and lifestyle choices. Testosterone levels reduce by about one percent a year in men over 40. A team from the New England Research ...

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Aging is a Time for Letting Go

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

So much of young adult life is about acquiring. Throughout our twenties and thirties, most people look for a mate, a good job, financial security, a good car, a fit and healthy body, a circle ...

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Stay Sexy Your Entire Life!

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

If you are over 50 and want the best that life has to offer, you probably desire a passionate, stimulating sex life. If you are under 50, you probably wonder what you have to look ...

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Caregiving Is a Two-Way Relationship

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

Helpers and elders are, of course, male as well as female. But for purposes of clarity, I am using the feminine pronoun, since most people in caregiving relationships are female. Women traditionally take on the caregiving ...

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Aging Parents and Your Emotional Well-Being

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

Browse the bookstore. Check the Web. You'll find extensive information about how to assist your aging parents. What you're unlikely to find, however, is help for the myriad feelings you will experience as your mom ...

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PTSD and Older Veterans

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

From as long ago as Homer's ancient story of the battle between the Trojans and the Greeks, and the times of the Bible and Shakespeare, military personnel have been confronted by the trauma of war. ...

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Aging Means More than Getting Old

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

Who is engaged in the process of aging? Your grandparents? Your parents? YOU?? The fact is, we are all progressing in age and moving through the normal stages of life we have come to know as ...

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Dividing Things, Not Families

Monday, December 4th, 2006

It was 10:45 on a warm summer day. Outside a stately mansion, parked on either side of the front door, were two large moving vans. Inside, the two van drivers and their assistants were becoming ...

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Depression and Baby Boomers: How Having It All May Be Too Much

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

Among the generation that has continually attempted to have it all, many baby boomers are now reluctantly adding a diagnosis of depression to their list of gains. As the leading cause of disability in the ...

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