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Skin care tips for the elderly
Skin breakdown in the elderly is a concern at home as well as in the hospital. You, as the caregiver, may have been told what to do to prevent further skin breakdown on discharge from a hospital. For those who have not been taught what to do, here are...Tags: Personal Service
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Power of healing, as lead by Anna Deavere Smith for National Nurses United
Anna Deavere Smith has, in essence, combined a career doing serious, interview-based theater work like "Fires in the Mirror" and "Twilight: Los Angles" with more lucrative acting gigs on TV shows like "The West Wing" and, currently, "Nurse Jackie."...
Tags: Medical Specialization, Health and Medical Professionals, Anna Deavere Smith, The West Wing (tv program)
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A novel about people in a nursing home
"Life After Life" by Jill McCorkle, a Shannon Ravenel Book, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 352 pages, $24.95. Joanna sits with people in the hospice wing of the Pine Haven nursing home in Fulton, N.C. There is Sadie Randolph, a retired teacher; Marge...Tags: Medical Specialization, Agriculture, Long Term Care, South Africa
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For Westmont College women, sadness fueled an ardor on the court
MONTECITO — Her final pep talk wasn't a pep talk at all. Kirsten Moore was beyond pep. Her final pep talk, given while surrounded by her Westmont College women's basketball team before the NAIA national championship game, was her chance to say...
Tags: Crohn's Disease, Basketball, Diseases and Illnesses, Sports, University of Missouri
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Companies offer new model for choosing caregiver
The emergency arrived when Jenna Lynn Schoeneman's father failed to pass his driver's test. He was 89, and determined to continue to drive. But after retaking the test six times without a stamp of approval, "he was crushed," and Schoeneman had a...Tags: Medical Specialization, Personal Service, Craigslist, Inc.
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Foraging for taste of the city
Foraging, I said to the couple across from me. It's kind of the thing here. Blank stares. Foraging, it's kind of the thing that the chef, Iliana Regan, that young soft-spoken woman in kitchen whites with her arms covered in tattoos who just served...
Tags: Medical Specialization, Potatoes, Dining and Drinking, Entertainment Events, Stand-up Comedy
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Sale of possessions may not generate much cash
Dear Liz: We are in our 60s and looking to downsize. We're living in an apartment now and don't like it, so we want to buy a small house. Also, our finances took some serious hits in the recent economy and we're trying to rebuild. But in trying to sell...Tags: Medical Specialization, Economy, Business and Finance, Education, Teaching and Learning, Finance
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Murder-suicide prevails over power structure denial of dignity
Savor the victory. The power structure conspired to perpetuate hell for Mildred and Elwood "Woody" Osman of Cherryville, but they prevailed. After 64 years of marriage, Woody took a .38-caliber revolver to the hospice room at Lehigh Valley Hospital in...
Tags: Medical Specialization, Euthanasia, Lehigh Valley Hospital, Hospitals and Clinics, Cherryville
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When Page 2 faces dire medical situation, Dodgers come in for the save
PHOENIX — I'm told when you have one of these mini-strokes, your fingers might hit the wrong keys, so my meaning well in a column might come off as something else. I can't explain the previous 39 years. I should have known this trip to spring...
Tags: Dwight Howard, Medical Specialization, Spring Training, Los Angeles Dodgers, Physical Conditions
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Home care aides not getting paid
Many people in Pauline Konrath's situation live in a nursing home. At 85, she has dementia and Parkinson's disease and uses a wheelchair. But she doesn't live in a nursing home because her son, Joe, moved her in with his family. It's not an easy...Tags: Medical Specialization, Career and Workplace, Eugene DePasquale, Homelessness, Accounting and Auditing
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Soup and sandwich sale planned at church
Christ Reformed United Church of Christ, at 22514 Cavetown Church Road, Cavetown, will hold a soup and sandwich sale Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. There will be steamers, hot dogs, chicken corn, vegetable or bean soup and drinks. Patrons can eat...Tags: Medical Specialization, Health and Medical Professionals, Soups, Lifestyle and Leisure, Sandwiches
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California and CPR liability reality
There is no way to gloss over this: Prolonged procrastination could have cost somebody his or her life. In just one hour at a church in South Whitehall Township, 38 people, mostly members of the Lehigh Wheelmen cycling club, learned how to keep a...
Tags: Medical Specialization, Disasters and Accidents, Emergency Health Procedures, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, South Whitehall Township
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