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Surgery Should Be Earned

Doug Monroe - 0
Local osteopath Dr. Chris Doerr is a proponent of healing through physical therapy. Surgery, he says, should be the last option. Fifteen years ago, Dr....
Aging Well

Best Exercises for Bones

BoomAthens - 0
According to a report from Harvard Medical School, all exercises for bone strength have one or more of the following attributes: They provide resistance....
Aging Well

Healthy Us: Advice from trusted sources

BoomAthens - 0
Time for a flu shot October is the ideal month to get your flu shot so that it will last through the upcoming flu season...
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UGA professor uses art to persuade

BoomAthens - 0
Amitabh Verma, associate professor in the University of Georgia College of Environment and Design, recently turned his talents to creating pandemic posters. Instead of...
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Aging Well

FYI: Virtual events, re-openings, Medicare news, CO-AGE proposals

BoomAthens - 0
Need to Know Medicare Open Enrollment The Medicare Rights Center reminds folks over 65 that from Oct. 15 to Dec. 7 each year, you can make...
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Older adults showing resilience

John Schieszer - 0
Older adults may be doing better during this pandemic than many people may realize. A new study involving older adults with pre-existing major depressive...
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Tips for conquering loneliness

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According to studies, loneliness is one of the greatest health concerns people face: it is equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes daily. Physician Stephanie Collier,...
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Isolated, depressed, lonely, homebound?

Doug Monroe - 0
Who ya gonna Zoom? Gloombuster! When older citizens were urged to isolate at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, Licensed Professional Counselor Rita Macari began using...
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Georgia gerontology conference Dementia care, death doulas, workforce shortages

BoomAthens - 0
The 64thannual conference of the Georgia Gerontology Society attracted 260 aging care providers, professionals, educators, and businesses to Lake Oconee in July. Fully seven of...
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Fix It, Now! The male approach to difficult diagnoses

Judi Kanne - 0
"If it’s broken, you fix it,” he said. That was my husband’s response after being told he failed a cardiac stress test. Apparently, plaque buildup...
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Everybody mumbles! Hearing loss affects most of us as we age

Betsy Bean - 1
Most of us don’t realize how bad our hearing loss is, says Dr. Holly Kaplan, clinical professor and audiologist at the UGA Speech and...
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Livability. Where shall we age?

BoomAthens - 0
While our parents may have lived out their adult lives in the same home and community they raised us in, adding a ramp and...
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Boomer Life

Moving Their “Retirement” Home – All 300,000 Pounds.

Betsy Bean - 0
  While many boomers are downsizing their living space or are planning to do so, Tom and Beth Allen have enlarged theirs. In fact, they...
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Boomer Life

Home Ec Revisited: More Than Cooking and Sewing

Theresa Rice - 1
  Boomer boys took shop and auto mechanics in junior and senior high. We young ladies studied Home Economics. We were introduced to kitchens and...
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Boomer Life

Uber and Lyft

Saleen Martin - 2
The money can be very good; the hassles mostly minor, and the hours totally flexible, say some of the boomers driving locally for the...
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Memoir

Genealogical Surprises! Love Letters Reveal a Mother I Never Knew

Doris Y. Kadish - 0
I retired from the UGA departments of romance languages and women's studies in 2011 after a lifetime of studying and teaching. And for all...
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Boomer Life

The Acquisitive Generation Begins to Downsize

Betsy Bean - 0
Teresa Howard, 59, and her husband, Dallas, 63, are anxious to sell their 4,200 sq.f. house in Lawrenceville to move closer to their daughter...
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I need a new bra

Dan Akins - 1
Caregiving for his 80-year-old mother challenged one writer’s ingenuity when she told him “I Need A Bra.” Enjoy two new submissions to the Boomers Write section.
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Memoir

Letters from Vietnam, 1967

Myrna Adams West - 6
Small flakes of snow prickled against my face and hands and left little wet splotches on the stationery on my lap.  It was 1967,...
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