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    Obama Administration Presents Plan to Fight Alzheimer’s Disease

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    | Denise's Blog, In The News
    May 16, 2012
    Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius yesterday released an ambitious national plan to fight Alzheimer’s disease. The plan was called for in the National Alzheimer’s Project Act (NAPA), which President Obama signed into law in January 2011. The National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease sets forth five goals, including...
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    How Can They Reach You?

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    | Denise's Blog
    May 14, 2012
    Tomorrow I host our monthly webinar for professionals who help family caregivers, either in a social service organization (like an Area Agency on Aging) or as a provider (a home care agency). Here’s the topic for tomorrow: Title: Finding the Influential Family Caregivers Day and Time: Tuesday, May 15, 2012,...
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    Flat

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    | Denise's Blog, Weekly Comforts
    May 8, 2012
    Sometimes, you feel like you fall flat on your face. When you do, you wish you could just lay flat; it just seems easier for life to climb over you so you can hide from it. You’ve flat-lined. How do you get up? You become round, full of life and...
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    Bright

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    | Denise's Blog, Weekly Comforts
    May 1, 2012
    At first, it feels like a few flickers, like what happens to lights during a terrible storm. It’s a lessening of who you were. Then, it feels like the lights just go out and you’re no longer who you used to be. Caregiving can dim your bright light before you...
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    What’s the “Stuff” Caregivers Say?

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    | Denise's Blog, Tell Us
    May 1, 2012
    A video went viral earlier this year which featured “sh–” New Yorker say. (You can watch it here.) The video features tongue-in-cheek clips of two New Yorkers saying, ““I want a dog, but it wouldn’t be fair,” “I read that in the New Yorker,” “Oh, I don’t own a TV.”...
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