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Authors Health and Fitness

Healthy lifestyle regimen helps dementia patients

By Leslee Jaquette I know many of you are too young to worry Alzheimers and other dementias. But others of you may know too much. You are the ones who have a family member who lost their memory, can’t recognize their own children and exists in a fog of confusion and agitation. Alzheimers reversal on […]

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Health and Fitness

Melatonin as a sleep aid offers many more benefits

Recently one of my girlfriends complained that she was suffering from frequent insomnia. Between being unemployed, searching for a new job and helping care for her father with dementia, she was a tangle of nerves that wouldn’t shut-off. I suggested she try melatonin. I told her I have been taking it for years and it […]

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Health and Fitness

NEW FEATURE: Caregiving Guide for boomers and seniors, Part 3

Jody Gastfriend, LICSW VP Senior Care Services, Care.com Editor’s note: 50plusnorthwest.com is proud to present our comprehensive guide to caregiving services. How to provide home care for a loved one is a major concern for both boomers and seniors. We hope to answer some of your most pressing questions with this ongoing series. Please check […]

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Health and Fitness

Association urges early detection of speech, hearing disorders

With roughly 50% of Americans over 60 suffering from some form of hearing loss, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) is encouraging seniors and their families to learn how to recognize the early signs of hearing disorders. ASHA brought its message to AARP’s Life@50+ meeting in Atlanta, October 3–5, 2013. Early detection, the theme of ASHA’s […]

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Health and Fitness

The impact of hearing loss on life

By Gora Ganguli CEO, VitaSound Audio Inc. Hearing loss is an ever-growing problem that robs people of their quality of life. Because it takes away the capacity to communicate and reduces social interaction between people, studies have shown that untreated loss leads to increasing isolation, depression, and even dementia. Always thought of as an “elderly […]

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Books

Dementia book earns Indie award

Author Elaine C. Pereira recently added another honor to the list of awards she has earned for her book, “I Will Never Forget: A Daughter’s Story of Her Mother’s Arduous and Humorous Journey through Dementia.” Pereira’s highly-popular book has been selected as a winner in the “aging” category of the sixth annual 2013 National Indie […]