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Alzheimer’s Disease

“…IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH….”: wedding vow too familiar to be taken seriously?

September 18, 2011

Pat Robertson, the aging TV evangelist-political candidate for President, has never been one of my favorite people.  His simplistic theology seems to take delight in trampling on people who live in the margins of belief and life, particularly if those margins are far from his own comfortable location.  This past week he not only stepped [...]

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THE PENULTIMATE DAY: my wife retires tomorrow

May 10, 2010

Tomorrow (May 11) is my wife’s birthday and the day on which she retires from full-time employment.  She will continue as a consultant for her company, Benchmark Assisted Living, the largest provider of Senior Living in New England.  It is not the first employer she has had in the last forty years, but it certainly [...]

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DEMENTIA: severe impairment or loss of intellectual capacity and personality integration, due to the loss of or damage to neurons in the brain.*

December 12, 2009

The use of the word dementia is often wrong, based upon lack of good education about the dreaded disease. I have heard people refer to patients (often loved ones) suffering from dementia as “crazy, out of their minds, or berserk.” These inappropriate and unfortunate words are simply products of ignorance and are demeaning to many [...]

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