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Mary J. Yerkes
Found in: Chronic Illness
Endings are a necessary part of life. Despite their inevitability, most of us face endings with a sense of regret, anger, and even fear. But to move forward, we sometimes have to give up relationships, businesses, and more to make room for the new.
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Dr. Matthew Edlund, MD, MOH
Found in: Safety and Security
The National Safety Council estimates that 28% of car crashes, about 1.6 million a year, are due to drivers using cell phones to talk or text. That means 10,000 deaths each year. How do you prevent this carnage? Ban cell phone use. Then enforce the laws.
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Retirenet Media Team
Found in: Computers & Technology, Exercise & Fitness
Social media, a double-edged sword for fitness. While it offers motivation and information, excessive scrolling can promote sedentary behavior, leading to health risks like weight gain and poor posture. Learn how to balance screen time with active living.
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Dr. Matthew Edlund, MD, MOH
Found in: Sleep and Rest, LN Body Clocks
Perhaps it’s the effect of a crashed economy, soaring gas prices, upheaval in the Middle East, blown up nuclear reactors or Charlie Sheen, but people are waking up a lot these days in the middle of the night. Frequently they can’t fall back to sleep.
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Mary J. Yerkes
Found in: Chronic Illness
When faced with chronic illness, do you rise to the challenge or fall apart? Resilience is the ability to roll with the punches, to bounce back. It involves adapting to change and addressing life’s problems constructively—and discovering opportunities.
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Dr. Matthew Edlund, MD, MOH
Found in: Mental Health, Sleep and Rest
Las Vegas at night cools outside, but not inside. The desiccated desert air does not affect environments designed and run as separate worlds where the temperature, the atmosphere and the staff’s friendly glare never change. There are no clocks...
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Mary J. Yerkes
Found in: Mental Health, Chronic Illness
Simple living can seem elusive. Despite the proliferation of products guaranteed to simplify, most of us continue to hurry through our lives, pursuing activities and making purchases that ultimately add to life’s clutter. There has to be a better way.
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Diane Carbo
Found in: Intergenerational Issues, Geriatric Care
Having family meetings to plan elder care gives families a chance to communicate issues and concerns on a regular basis, to make educated and appropriate choices—and to bond and develop relationships at a new level.
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Dr. Matthew Edlund, MD, MOH
Found in: Depression
Many who have been diagnosed with depression are on a laundry list of medications, and in hard economic times want to do something on their own. What can they do to get better, particularly without medications, by themselves? Lots.
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Mary J. Yerkes
Found in: Chronic Illness
For many, the most distressing consequence of chronic illness is social isolation. Basic needs for intimacy, belonging, and acceptance remain unmet...and the onus rests on friends and family to take the initiative and begin to meet these unmet needs.
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