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Aging is inevitable. Growing up is optional. Take off the rose-colored glasses. Face the future or let your body deteriorate and face physical disability. Want to avoid a nursing home? Beat the system and beat the odds. Exercise, eat well, give up the cigarettes. Plan today for tomorrow. Don’t be naïve. Broaden your knowledge and embracing lifelong learning. Choose to support health and well-being. Train your brain to be positive and your and body to be energetic. Prevention and good habits are not for sissies. Act now to improve quality of life and remain young at heart. Stay young with Pamela.
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Tattooed and Pierced: The Millennial Generation in Your Workplace
By Pamela D. Wilson CSA, MS, BS/BA, CGHow many times does your resident, client, co-worker or parent say, "kids today - I wonder what they're thinking?" If we are honest we might include ourselves in this group -- never wanting to admit we might be at the early stages of thinking like our paren...
Caregiving and Caregiver Support: Lifelong Learning “That Which Does Not Kill Us Makes Us Stronger”
Caregiving or care receiving is not for sissies. “That which does not kill us, makes us stronger.” German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, knew what he was talking about. Grandma Mary, well into her 90’s shook her crooked arthritic finger at me and said “it’s no good to get old”.Ca...
Aging and Genealogy
The number of individuals living to 100 is increasing. What might you to do remain healthy and active into advanced age?
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The Value of Life
Martin is dedicated to help his father improve mentally and physically. Henry was an active 93 year old until he had a stroke in August. After hospitalization and a nursing home stay for rehabilitation, Henry returned home at the beginning of December. In spite of having physical and occupation...
Become an Organ Donor
My mother wanted to donate her body to science after her death; she talked about this for years but did nothing to ensure her wish would actually become reality. The thought made me a bit queasy. I didn’t want my mother’s body used for experimental research even though I believe that the sp...
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Aging: Something To Look Forward To – The Positive Phases of Engagement in Later Life – Family
In 2017, for the first time in recorded history, the number of individuals on this planet who are 65 years or older is predicted to surpass the number of individuals less than 5 years old.” 1 Like it or not, if you are reading this article you are part of an aging generation. Aging and the ...
Optimism and a Positive Outlook When Living With Chronic Disease
Interview with Dr. Ann Gruber- Baldini, Associate Professor Gerontology, University of Maryland School of Medicine
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Recognizing the Frightening Behaviors of Delirium
How many of you at one point or another in your youth found a way into your parent’s liquor cabinet or bribed someone just a little older to purchase alcohol for you and then drank until you were overly intoxicated? How many of you know people who occasionally partake a little too much? Their...
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