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Body Rolling and Other Tips for Joint Care

Liz Conroy - 1
Several years ago, I was diagnosed with osteoarthritis, and then I had knee surgery in 2013. My doctor had little advice to offer except...
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Health Pages – Jan/Feb 2017

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UGA exercise study needs older adult participants The UGA Department of Kinesiology is conducting a research study involving inactive older adults aged 65-plus with internet...
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April is Sjogren’s Awareness Month

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The second most common rheumatic autoimmune disease is one called Sjogren’s, (pronounced SHOW-grins), and nine of 10 people diagnosed are women, although it’s been...
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Healthy Us Winter 2020

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Research: Healthy aging in couples The UGA Dept. of Kinesiology is recruiting adults between 60 and 80 with their romantic partners to participate in a...
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Healthy Us Fall 2019

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Time to get your flu shot The flu is already starting to show up in emergency rooms and hospitals throughout Georgia so now is the...
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Healthy Us Summer 2019

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Piedmont Athens hospital offers new procedure for carotid artery disease Over 30% of strokes in the United States each year are caused by untreated carotid...
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Healthy Us Spring 2019

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FDA proposes new changes to mammography regulations The US Federal Drug Administration recently proposed the first new rules on mammography in 20 years. If approved,...
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Healthy Us

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New dry mouth treatment, New drugs to treat sexual health in women, The critical test doctors never order, Turn off the TV!, Heart attacks have beginnings, Heart attacks have beginnings, Check your inflammation levels.
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Divorce’s impact on the sex lives of older women

Kate Morrissey Stahl - 0
As the population ages, many people are reaching older age having gone through one or more divorces. That’s particularly true for the generation known...
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Healthy Us

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Boomers should get tested for Hepatitis C. All U.S. baby boomers should get a one-time test for the Hepatitis C virus, according to the Centers...
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New guidelines for bone density testing may discourage men

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Newly updated guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Services task force suggests all women 65 and older undergo bone density screening, a brief, noninvasive, safe...
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Summer grilling may raise blood pressure risk

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Many people switch from stove to grill in the warmer months, but Harvard Health Publishing reports a new study that links regular consumption of...
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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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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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