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  Normal Business Hours are not Traditional School Hours
  Why are normal business hours and traditional school hours so poorly aligned?
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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “caregiving”

 

• HPV and Pap Test Results: What Do They Really Mean?

  
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  It has become very common for a woman’s annual exam to include both a pap test and HPV test to determine her risk for cervical cancer.  What becomes confusing are the various combination of results (positive for one, negative for the other, positive or negative for both).  To help clarify what it all means and ...
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• Barking Up the Right Tree: Dogs and Dementia

  
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  The late, great therapy dog Isabella   During her 70-year “working” career as a pet therapy dog, my Springer Spaniel Isabella and I padded around countless nursing homes . Animal therapy has long been touted for its medicinal value (lower blood pressure and tricyclerine levels, among other benefits.)  I am ...
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• Caregiving: What We Gave Up and What We Gained

  
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  Caregiving Caregiving of an aging parent is not usually a job we willingly choose, it is something that is thrust upon us.  The elder gets sick, frail, has memory problems, and can no longer perform the activities of  daily living.  Someone has to step up, and an adult child of the elder is usually who becomes the ...
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• “You need to do (this)…because I know you do!”

  
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  How many times have you been told, “you need to do…” by a well meaning friend/family member/etc.  even though it’s not anything you need or would help?  I have had my share this past week.  I’ve been told I need to simply to tell my family to change their times to accomodate my need for sleep.  I’ve ...
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• Hot off the Press…Disruptive Women’s Latest eBook

  
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  By Robin Strongin. It is amazing to think that four years have gone by since the Disruptive Women blog started.  The blog aims to be forward-thinking, provocative, and – of course – a little disruptive and continues to be thanks to the great content and innovative ideas from our bloggers.  Through our bloggers ...
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• Letting Go

  
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  This morning, Anna Stookey joined me on Your Caregiving Journey to talk about why it’s so hard to let go. You can listen to our show via the player below. Our discussion geared on letting go when we know we’re at the end–of a job, a relationship, of life. We talked about the tension that can come from ...
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• Adopted and Pro-Choice

  
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  Last week, TLC aired a special called Birth Moms in honour of Mother’s Day, documenting the experiences of three young pregnant women considering adoption. When I first heard about this show I, being an open and proud adoptee, was thrilled; in the current political environment where abortion is constantly in the ...
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• Tablet technology is transforming speech-language pathology

  
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  When  tablet computers  first arrived on the scene a few years ago, few could have predicted their usefulness to speech-language pathologists. But tablets—like the Apple iPad, Blackberry Playbook, Google Android, Kindle Fire and HP Touchpad—are transforming the way these therapists practice every day. They’ve ...
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• Dementia Care Answers: The Hygience Battle

  
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  This morning on Your Caregiving Journey , Claire Day, our dementia care expert, joined me this morning to answers your questions about dementia care. You can listen to our show via the player below. Today we answered this question from a follower on Twitter: Simple hygiene–why does it become a battleground? After ...
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• The Senior ER

  
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  There is a pretty good write up on Senior ERs on a great new blog called Next Avenue it is very well done and is definitely worth a look. I like their emphasis on aging as a developmental reality. Here is the lede… Kyung Menkick, 77, thought she might be dying one morning last December when she awoke and felt ...
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• When siblings disagree on parent care

  
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    Eldercare has a way of sneaking up on people. Generally, if there is an adult child living in the same town as the aging parents, it is this child who becomes, at the first sign of need, the default caregiver. That usually makes sense. You live in town. Your folks need some help with their Medicare forms, so you ...
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• After Chemotherapy: A Careful Transition Back to Your Primary Care Doctor is Critical

  
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  Once your chemotherapy treatment is completed, even if you are declared “cancer free”, it’s going to be important to coordinate a knowledge transfer between your oncologist and your primary care doctor, particularly related to potential long term effects. The results of a 2009 survey of over 1,100 primary care ...
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• Undecided Women, Don’t be Fooled: Your Control of Birth IS ABOUT Jobs

  
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  Women, especially young childless undecided women voters, are talking about jobs ,  not abortion rights, right? What women really care about is not contraception, not access to family planning resources, not social issues like gay marriage, abstinence-only sex “ed” or Mitt Romney’s 50 year old bullying. Nope ...
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• Caregiving

  
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• How to Raise Environmentally Responsible Children

  
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  Raising An Environmentally Responsible Child In Today’s Throw-Away World! by Stacey Irwin, Contributor to Think Green on Allthingshealing.com Editor’s Note from Cara Ryan: I find this article to be really fun! Stacey shares some easy ways to “greenify” children’s lives early on for a lasting impact. Parenting ...
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• Mothers and the Market

  
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  Most of the time, we think about marriage as a personal relationship. We strive to keep the spark, resolve  the inevitable conflicts peacefully, protect our “couple time” and carve out some “me time.” Much less attention is paid to the other transactions that can occur in marriage, such as raising the ...
  6 days ago

• More praise for ExtraOrdinary: An End of Life Story without End

  
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  "A beautifully written story about the incomparable Herman Liss, told by the daughter who adored him for 30 years and the young boy who knew him for only one. Through their words they shine a brilliant light on a remarkable...
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• Drop the caregiver guilt and find some peace

  
  Minding Our Elders® — Authority: 112
  Guilt has a purpose in life. If we are mean, we should feel guilty. If we owe someone an apology, we should be big enough to do so. But guilt is a complicated emotion. We take on the expectations of our culture, our religion, our family. And then we take on the expectations of our toughest critic – ourselves. That ...
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• Mesothelioma brings heavy caregiving responsibilities

  
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  Providing care for someone with cancer or a debilitating condition can be challenging for everyone involved in the patient’s life. For family members, this difficulty can be magnified because providing care for patients with some cancers requires special and long-term responsibilities. Mesothelioma , a rare cancer ...
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• What To Expect When You Are Expecting To Just Be Entertained

  
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  I would say a large majority of parents have had first hand experience, at least, thumbing through Heidi Murkoffs mega-bestselling manual, What to Expect When Youre Expecting. It is arguably the most basic, most common, and most derided parent-to-be book in consistent publication today, as it has been since 1984. Some ...
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