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Senior Lifestyles: Owning a pet improves your mood and your health

Like most Americans, I grew up in a home that always had a pet. What we learned when we were kids and relearned later in ... Read more

by Ron Kauffman, Monday, July 24, 2017 10:00 pm

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Senior Lifestyles: The upside/downside of modern medicine and technology

The following article deals with an extremely difficult and sensitive subject. Like most of you, I too have opinions about it, and it points out ... Read more

by Ron Kauffman, Monday, July 10, 2017 10:00 pm

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When is it time to talk about nursing home placement?

In my last article, I discussed the role of using a geriatric care manager, especially when dealing with a family member with dementia. In the ... Read more

by Ron Kauffman, Monday, June 26, 2017 10:00 pm

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Senior Lifestyles: What is a geriatric care manager?

There are times when a family caregiver, usually the spouse or adult child, reaches the end of his or her rope and needs to bring ... Read more

by Ron Kauffman, Monday, June 12, 2017 5:28 pm

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Senior Lifestyles: Can you hear me now?

While we may deny it, most of us know that as we age, particularly in our mid-60s and beyond, that our hearing isn’t what it ... Read more

by Ron Kauffman, Monday, May 22, 2017 10:00 pm

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Senior Lifestyles: Preventing caregiver burnout

There are few tasks more emotionally, physically or mentally difficult than being a caregiver for a loved one.  Regardless of whether the person being cared ... Read more

by Ron Kauffman, Monday, May 8, 2017 10:00 pm

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Senior Lifestyles: Medicare’s new hospital rules – observation or admission

Many Medicare patients face situations that bring them to the emergency rooms of hospitals. Often they are treated and released, but other times they may ... Read more

by Ron Kauffman, Monday, April 24, 2017 10:00 pm

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A caregiver’s basic guide

No one plans to be a caregiver for a spouse or family member, but one day a loved one has a major stroke or due ... Read more

by Ron Kauffman, Monday, April 10, 2017 10:00 pm

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Tired? Take a nap

Sleep, just like a healthy lifestyle, reasonable diet and regular exercise is part of the “whole health” equation. But for some of us who are ... Read more

by Ron Kauffman, Monday, March 27, 2017 10:00 pm

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Dealing with a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease

It’s often difficult for a physician to deliver the bad news to a patient and family that a loved one has Alzheimer’s disease, because the ... Read more

by Ron Kauffman, Monday, March 13, 2017 10:00 pm

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