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    How Many Opinions Are Too Many?

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    | Help!, Your Tips
    April 5, 2012
    (Editor’s Note: Today, we welcome a guest post from Crystal Fornes, a nurse practitioner and patient advocate with more than 10 years of experience.) In my work as a nurse and healthcare navigator, family caregivers tell me they want solid opinions and more concrete explanations from their caree’s doctors. They...
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    Your Tips: Your House of Worship and Your Caree

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    | Holiday Survival Guide, Your Caregiving Journey, Your Tips
    November 29, 2011
    This morning, Claire Day, Vice President of Constituent Services for the Alzheimer’s Association Delaware Valley Chapter, joined me for our monthly discussion about dementia care. We spoke about how to keep your caree’s spirituality alive—in your house worship and at home. You can listen to our show via the player...
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    Preventing Delirium in Your Hospitalized Caree

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    | Denise's Blog, Your Tips, Your Tools
    November 13, 2011
    Chances are, during one of your caree’s hospitalizations, you noticed that your caree experienced a significant level of confusion. The sudden change in your caree’s mental status during a hospitalization can be startling, upsetting and scary. Unfortunately, the sudden confusion, known as delirium, among the hospitalized elderly is an awful...
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    Websites You Recommend

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    | Denise's Blog, Your Tips
    July 18, 2011
    In our 2011 Family Caregiver Survey, we asked: Which websites do you recommend to other family caregivers? We’re happy to share the list with you today (and thanks to all who recommend Caregiving.com!!). And, please feel free to add other favorites in our comments section, below. Dementia Holly Eburne: www.hollyeburne.com/...
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    Lee Woodruff Answers Your Questions about Pain

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    | Denise's Blog, Your Tips
    March 28, 2011
    (Editor’s Note: Recently, Partners Against Pain®, a national pain management education program, contacted me to suggest that its partner, Lee Woodruff, answer your questions about pain. Lee is a NY Times best-selling author and caregiver to her husband, Bob Woodruff, the ABC News anchor critically injured in Iraq in 2006....
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    Evaluating the Caregiving State of Affairs

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    | Your Tips
    February 18, 2011
    (Editor’s Note: Today’s guest post comes from SeniorsforLiving.com’s Michelle Seitzer. Before committing to life as a full-time freelance writer, Michelle spent 10 years in the senior living and advocacy world, serving in various roles at assisted living communities throughout Pennsylvania and Maryland, and leading the charge for Alzheimer’s as a...
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    Get Rid of the Bad Hands

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    | Denise's Blog, Your Tips
    November 12, 2010
    I was watching the The Millionaire Matchmaker the other night. (I watch bad TV.) In this particular episode, the matchmaker worked with a poker player (a woman) looking for love. We followed the poker player on a date with a nice man, who asked her: What’s the trick to being...
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    ESP

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    | Weekly Comforts, Your Tips
    September 6, 2010
    ESP usually means “extrasensory perception.” Today, it means: Execute a Special Plan. When you look around and think, “I’m out of options. I can’t find another choice,” use your ESP. When you want to sit and cry because nothing seems to work, use your ESP. When you want to run...
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