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Surgery for Seniors? Check This Site

posted about 1 month ago by MindingOurElders | 0 comments
Surgery always has risks, but it’s riskier for our elders. One reason for this is the anesthetics used, some of which are suspected of kicking a vulnerable elder over the edge into dementia. There’s an excellent Web site run by the American Societ...

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Brainpower Book Provides Workout Buddy

posted about 1 month ago by MindingOurElders | 0 comments
People often ask what they can do to preserve their brains. While no one can predict who will get Alzheimer's disease or another dementia, there are certain steps recommended by experts often enough to have some sticking power. We can't change our...

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PBS Hosts Boomer Series: Life (Part 2)

posted 2 months ago by MindingOurElders | 0 comments
I received a press release from PBS on their new "Life (Part 2)" series. After checking out clips and their site, felt that this is well worth passing on.

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Aging

posted 3 months ago, updated 6 minutes later by free2lv | 0 comments
Waking up and walking on sandy shores as the sun peeks up beyond the cloud in a yellowish tangerine color, during the time of day when Papa speaks His loudest to me in His soft but effective way - is what aging and life is all about!

Struggling ...

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Boomer Caregivers Can be a Force for Change

posted 3 months ago by MindingOurElders | 0 comments
Most of us would rather not have to live our last months or years in a nursing home. Certainly, almost no one would choose this option if all nursing homes were like the ones of past decades. Based on military and prison hospitals and run for the ...

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First Street for boomers and beyond

posted 3 months ago by brucebleroy | 0 comments
I have discovered the company behind Go Computer.

I is called First Street and was very impressed by their products.

Here is their website>

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Leading Ladies

posted 3 months ago by silvergirl28 | 0 comments
I advocate putting ourselves in someone else's place regularly to increase our own empathy. If you want to read a well written, vivid novel that will do just that - I recommend The Help by Kathryn Stockett. It is an eye opener that still has me th...

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Are All Boomers the Same? Tell me your thoughts!

posted 3 months ago by phdmsw | 3 comments
Are all Baby Boomers the same? Of course not. The mass media has frequently emphasized the commonalities among Boomers because they are quite interesting, but the image of Boomers as affluent, aging hippies with silver hair who drive BMW’s is simp...

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Time Travel

posted 3 months ago by silvergirl28 | 0 comments
If you dig or detest Don, Betty, Peggy, Roger, Joan, Pete, or the rest of the gang then go ahead and Madmen yourself, its fun, its free and its at: view link

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See You In August

posted 4 months ago by silvergirl28 | 0 comments
I will be gone until 8/3/2009, see you then! Thanks.

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