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	<title>Healthy and Green Living &#187; Elder Care</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Is It Ever Okay to Laugh About Alzheimer&#8217;s?</title>
		<link>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/is-it-ever-okay-to-laugh-about-alzheimers.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel, selected from Caring.com</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Alzheimer's]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Let me say straightaway that Alzheimer&#8217;s isn&#8217;t funny. And yet, there sure are plenty of moments that make you want to laugh. Or me, anyway.
No doubt dementia is a horrible affliction, in the progressive way it erodes the memories and connectedness of someone you love. But it&#8217;s exactly that long slow progressiveness, the years of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flu Alert: 10 Warning Signs to Call the Doctor</title>
		<link>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/flu-alert-10-warning-signs-to-call-the-doctor.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel, selected from Caring.com</dc:creator>
		
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Melanie Haiken, Caring.com
I know we&#8217;re all anxious about swine flu this season, but the truth is that for most people, the flu&#8211;no matter what type of flu it is&#8211;doesn&#8217;t pose a serious danger. Colds and flu normally cause what doctors like to refer to as &#8220;self-limited&#8221; illness&#8211;this means you feel sick but eventually get better [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ditching Your Parents: When the Relationship With Your Parents is Broken</title>
		<link>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/ditching-your-parents-when-the-relationship-with-your-parents-is-irreparably-broken.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Steinman</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Love &amp; Relationships]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Parenting at the Crossroads]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Virtually everyone I know has had a gripe (or two) about his or her respective parents. Some dread the parental visit; others screen frequent phone calls, and many set up elaborate boundaries to keep their parents as a definitively minimal influence in their lives. That said, most all of my friends and acquaintances still maintain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>8 Ways to Sort Aging Parents&#8217; &#8220;Stuff&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/8-ways-to-get-rid-of-aging-parents-stuff.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel, selected from Caring.com</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Elder Care]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Family Life]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Feng Shui &amp; Organizing]]></category>

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By Paula Spencer, Caring.com
&#8220;Christmas lights. Do not work.&#8221; Three boxes, so labeled and tucked in the basement ceiling joists, were perhaps my favorite find while clearing out my parents&#8217; house. Well, those or the shelf of neat notebooks recording weekly bowling scores back to the 1960s. A dozen casserole lids, no casseroles. Spare stereo knobs, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Ways to Slow Down Alzheimer&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/5-ways-to-slow-down-alzheimers.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel, selected from Caring.com</dc:creator>
		
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By Paula Spencer, Caring.com
The memory loss and other cognitive changes characteristic of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease and most other forms of dementia can&#8217;t be reversed. But there are some proven ways to delay further decline, at least over the short term.
1. Mental Activity
A growing body of research indicates that stimulating the brain has the power to slow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sex and Alzheimer&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/sex-and-alzheimers.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel, selected from Caring.com</dc:creator>
		
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By Paula Spencer, Caring.com
Sexual urges don&#8217;t stop just because Alzheimer&#8217;s or another dementing illness invades the brain. Sometimes this is a blessing; some long-married couples say that the mind and body long remember the behaviors of sexual intimacy, even when short-term memory is on the fritz, which helps reinforce their closeness despite the disease-related adversity. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keep Your Muscle Strength as You Age</title>
		<link>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/keep-your-muscle-strength-as-you-age.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/keep-your-muscle-strength-as-you-age.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Megan, selected from Intent.com</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As you age, you lose muscle size and strength much faster than you lose endurance or coordination. Researchers at the University of Nottingham in England show that a major cause of loss of muscle is that aging prevents muscles from responding to insulin and that exercising helps to slow this loss of muscle size and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>6 Ways to Deal With Denial</title>
		<link>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/6-ways-to-deal-with-denial.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel, selected from Caring.com</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Alzheimer's]]></category>

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By Paula Spencer, Caring.com
Does a friend or family member accept the reality of his or her situation? What about the other family members in the orbit of concern? Do they realistically get what&#8217;s what&#8211;or are they in the throes of denial?
Dealing with denial ranks among the more stressful frustrations for caregivers:

Denial can prevent someone from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confronting the Slow Demise of an Ailing Parent</title>
		<link>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/confronting-the-slow-demise-of-an-ailing-parent.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/confronting-the-slow-demise-of-an-ailing-parent.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Steinman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Alzheimer's]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[family decisions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When my father had the stroke that hastened his death, I immediately made a bleary-eyed 3AM drive to the emergency room to be by his side. Moments after arriving to the hospital and checking in with the attending ER physician, I got back in my car and drove to my father&#8217;s dark and empty house [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Common Medication Mistakes That Can Kill</title>
		<link>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/10-common-medication-mistakes-that-can-kill.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/10-common-medication-mistakes-that-can-kill.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel, selected from Caring.com</dc:creator>
		
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By Melanie Haiken, Caring.com
The numbers are simply staggering: Every year 1.5 million people are sickened or severely injured by medication mistakes, and 100,000 die. And yet all of those deaths are preventable. What&#8217;s the answer? We have to protect ourselves. Here are the ten medication mistakes experts say are most likely to kill or cause [...]]]></description>
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