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Aging Parents: Is It Better To Have A Friend Be Your Doctor?
January 20th’s NY Times, Science Section’s “Hard Cases” column, Too Close to a Patient for Comfort, makes the case, based on AMA guidelines and other sources, that objectivity in medical care may be...
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Aging Independently and Well Over Decades–10 How-to’s
“As we live our lives, we write our own destiny” Sr. Advisor R Sr. Advisor R,, my mil, was a poster child for aging independently, unselfishly and well. She said, to the extent she could, she’d done...
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US News Best Hospitals 2015-16 Ranks Mayo Clinic (Rochester) #1 in Geriatrics
Massachusetts General Hospital [Massachusetts General]Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston is ranked #1 Hospital in US News’s Best Hospitals 2015-16 issue, published July 21st. In Geriatrics Mayo...
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Aging Parents: Maintaining Mobility into Old, Old Age–The Dangers of Sitting...
Sedentary Seniors and Couch-Potato Elders—Walk More. Sit Less How limiting is life for those with curtailed mobility? Look around…so many people with canes and walkers as our population ages. Based on...
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What 90-year-olds Want From Doctors
Look at older patients instead of typing notes into a computer, take more time with them and answer their questions… Periodically I go through the “Sites and Blogs I Like” (tab above)– reading, adding...
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Help Aging Parents–Hospice: Why Wait To Call?
Call Hospice for Your Mom! I meddled! A former neighbor sounded awful when I phoned the other night. She’s very old; has had cancer successfully treated over decades, but it sounds like the end may be...
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Aging Parents: Smartphones’ Photos in Senior Healthcare
Smartphones’ photos in senior healthcare NYC 86th St. Subway ad 2016 (above). Close up of text under “The doctor will see you now” (below). Upon exiting the subway last week, this ad greeted me. We are...
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13 Tips for Surviving Hospitalization of an Aging Parent or Spouse
How many times have people said “You must take care of yourself?” when caring for an elderly loved one who’s hospitalized. There’s stress….too many things to take care of; possibly many people giving...
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Old Parents, Breast Cancer Surgery and Dental Work: Options–Do All, Less, or...
Is it Better to do Nothing or–at least–Less? and A Woman Rejects Mammograms at a Certain Age A friend just drove to upstate New York to be with her 70-some-year-old mother who was having a lumpectomy....
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Inching Towards 80: Challenging and Jumpstarting Aging Minds
To my Readers and Followers~ A personal note that makes a point about older people’s mental agility–or at least mine. Since my absence from blogging, WordPress (my ‘publishing platform’) has made...
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