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When You Lose Your Primary Care Doctor
The day may come when your primary care physician retires or moves for one reason or another. Finding a new doctor can be easier said than done. And you need to “train” him or her as to your specific needs and preferences. Certainly, your new...

How NOT to talk to a person with Alzheimer’s
For those who have full faculties, having a logical conversation with someone with Alzheimer’s disease can be frustrating, if not impossible. It is very tempting to remember those who suffer from this aliment as he or she was years ago – or maybe...

Can a Blood Test Predict Your (Medical) Future?
Recent studies have revealed that certain proteins in your blood can be predictors of diseases years down the road. The blood test called SOBA (Soluble Oligomer Binding Assay) can detect toxic oligomers in blood of patients with Alzheimer’s...

Is a “Broken Heart” Really a Thing?
The phrase “Dying of a broken heart” sounds like a storybook line. But could it be real? Perhaps one of the most public examples of this occurred in 2016 when Debbie Reynolds followed her daughter, Carrie Fisher in death within two days. In fact,...

Signs of Senior Depression
Depression occurs in about one out of five seniors and, among the homebound, that figure may be as high as 46 percent according to The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). But, despite its frequency, depression is not a normal part of...