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These posts are guest articles on important resources.

Care-Giving Concerns

Employed Family Caregivers Providing Complex Chronic Care

November 22, 2013 Webmaster 0

Employed family caregivers, despite their workplace obligations, perform many of the tasks that health care professionals do—a range of medical/nursing tasks including medication management, wound care, using meters and monitors, and more — according to [Read more…]

Health and Wellness Programs

Medications and Hip Implants that Seniors Should Know About

August 14, 2013 Webmaster 0

Today, more seniors are living longer and more active lives. Modern medicine provides several ways to maintain health, quality of life and independence, including new prescription medications and more advanced joint prostheses, such as hip [Read more…]

Care-Giving Concerns

A Doctor Goes to a Clinic Appointment

July 25, 2013 Emily Howard MD, PhD 0

Editor’s Note: Emily Howard, MD, PhD, was most recently a Staff Pathologist at Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC. She is currently working on a book, The American Health Care Community: A Guidebook. She will discuss [Read more…]

Reflections on Aging

FT: High-tech products for older people

June 1, 2013 Webmaster 0

In the Weekend Financial Times of London, an article, “High-tech devices to meet housing and care needs of older people,” describes the development of “granny pods” and robots to deal with specialized needs of an [Read more…]

Charles Ornstein with his mother Harriet Ornstein on his wedding day, weeks after she was mugged in a parking lot and knocked to the pavement with a broken nose. (Randall Stewart, Photo courtesy of Charles Ornstein)
Care-Giving Concerns

How Mom’s Death Changed My Thinking About End-of-Life Care

February 28, 2013 Webmaster 1

by Charles Ornstein ProPublica, Feb. 28, 2013, 8:59 a.m. This story was co-published with The Washington Post. My father, sister and I sat in the near-empty Chinese restaurant, picking at our plates, unable to avoid [Read more…]

Reflections on Aging

New York Times: United States Lags in Alzheimer’s Support

December 30, 2012 Webmaster 0

The New York Times “New Old Age” blog reports on a Senate report that highlights several trends related to care for people with Alzheimer’s disease in five countries. The US does not come out on [Read more…]

Donald M. Friedman, MD
Health and Wellness Programs

Living a Satisfying Life While Having a Chronic Illness – Part 1

October 28, 2012 Donald Friedman, M.D. 0

Receiving a diagnosis of a chronic disease that is treatable, but not curable, manageable, but not always completely controllable, can be a devastating experience.  There frequently is an immediate sense of being threatened, not only [Read more…]

Berta Zylberstajn, executive secretary, World Union for Progressive Judaism - Latin America
Resource Articles

Jewish Sacred Aging Podcast #5: Progressive Judaism in Latin America, a conversation with Berta Zylberstajn

August 24, 2012 Webmaster 0

Rabbi Address has just returned from participation in the 4th Conference of Jewish Communities in Buenos Aires, Argentina, sponsored by the World Union for Progressive Judaism – Latin America WUPJ-LA). The World Union for Progressive [Read more…]

Sandy Taradash
Baby Boomer Bubbe

Holiday Food, Jewish Style

August 21, 2012 Sandra Taradash 0

As the High Holidays approach, and we reflect upon the year past, we are in touch with the essence of our deeds, the essence of one’s soul and the essence of our relationship to and [Read more…]

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Reflections on Aging

Finally: A Breakthrough On Funding For Alzheimer’s Research

January 20, 2012 Webmaster 0

There may be good news on the horizon for present and future Alzheimer’s patients and their families. The United States government has taken the first step toward the provision of more federal research money with [Read more…]

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