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November 15 is National Memory Screening Day
National Memory Screening Day on November 15 is a perfect time for a baseline memory screening.
World Alzheimer’s Day
World Alzheimer’s Day is September 21. Learn about the I CAN! I WILL! Library. Raise awareness about Alzheimer’s.
Read A Bittersweet Season
Family caregivers need to read A Bittersweet Season Caring for Our Aging Parents – and Ourselves by Jane Gross. The journalist who started The New York Times healthcare blog, The New Old Age, Jane takes the reader through the caregiving for her mother with her brother and every other resource she came across. Her mother had moved from New [...]
Senior Home Safety Month
June is a great month to check on how safe it is for seniors in their place of living. With National Home Safety Month, the Home Safety Council has some good information on falls prevention. Falls are the leading cause of unintentional injury death in the home. Many excellent products for senior home safety are [...]
Pancreatic Cancer Advocacy Days June 13 – 14
Pancreatic Cancer Advocacy Days June 13 – 14
Take The Home Run Challenge For Dad
Take the home run challenge to bat against prostate cancer from June 8 to Father’s Day.
April 16 Is National Health Care Decisions Day
National Health Care Decisions Day is a reminder to think about end-of-life decisions and making an Advance Health Care Directive.
Holiday Time with Seniors = Look, Listen, and Learn
The holidays are a great time with parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and friends. Be sure to make the most of this time with them. Making the most includes using the time to look, listen, and learn regarding the aging of the people you care about. Look at them. Are there any obvious physical changes? Are they able [...]
Memory Screening Starts Now
With Tuesday, November 16 recognized as National Memory Screening Day in the awareness month for Alzheimer’s Disease, it is appropriate to encourage the campaign to have memory screening as a normal occurence in a senior person’s health care evaluation. The past debate has included the issue of at what age to start the screening. Since the oldest baby boomers turn age 65 [...]