|  | The Senior Organizer is an easy-to-access and centralized system that solves the challenges of assembling and keeping track of all medical, legal, financial, personal and spiritual information. It puts vital documents, such as medical and financial records at a family’s fingertips. |
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| | Turning to one of the fastest growing medias, a company seeking to push the Caregiver Credit Campaign has produced a new comic book heroine --- Carrie Giver. |
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| | The natural thing to do when something goes wrong in your parent’s house is to fix-it. That may be the worse thing to do if you want to maintain separate households for tax and medicaid-eligibility purposes. |
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| | Banks across the nation are offering senior citizen accounts. A child or sibling providing caregiving support should make sure each parent or sibling has a separate account. Because most “Golden Age” accounts are free, having separate accounts is not an onerous expense. |
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| | Elderly people report chronic pain and managing pain is among the most complex challenges faced by doctors and caregivers. |
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| | Increasingly, doctors are becoming aware of the danger inherent in peripheral artery disease and its effect on individuals over 55. Sufferers have a greatly increased risk of heart attack or stroke, and of dying within a decade. Yet, two-thirds of those afflicted do not know they have it because they display no symptoms. |
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| | In recent years, physicians and scientists have come to recognize the importance of the body's internal clock to the vital rhythmic functions such as heart rate, blood pressure and hormone production. Focusing on a sliver of the brain that regulates these functions, the field of chronobiology - the study of the effects of time on life processes - has grown, albeit slowly, into a significant area of medical research. |
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