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Carol Bradley Bursack

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posted 04/16/2008, comments (4)

Toy Tractors Trigger Memories for Alzheimer’s Patients

RDO Equipment, of Moorhead, MN specializes in agriculture. The company also specializes in giving back to the community. RDO services a metro area that is divided by the Red River of the North - North Dakota on one side, Minnesota on the other. While the cities of Fargo, ND and Moorhead, MN are large enough to have an urban flavor, they are... Read more Chevron

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Leah

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posted 04/16/2008, comments (4)

No Need To Fret (Written With Some Twang!)

(I would like to write using my dialect today...which means I will be writing words more closely to the way I say them than to how they are actually spelled. It will exercise a part of my brain which hasn't been used as much- and exercising a part of yours at the same time!) I'm havin' the "used ta's today...I used to do... Read more Chevron

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Dorian Martin

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posted 04/15/2008, comments (2)

House Calls Taking on New Meaning in Elder Care

All things old can be new again. In an opinion column in yesterday's Boston Globe, Dr. Elizabeth Kass, medical director of Urban Medical, and Dr. Mark Zeidel, chief of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, suggested that that the long-lost medical house call is returning to our society and, in fact, may become a cost-effective way... Read more Chevron

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Dorian Martin

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posted 04/14/2008, comment (1)

Gifts From Your Loved One- Sometimes It's Just A Peace of Mind

Mara and I were trading stories over the weekend about aging parents and dementia. Mara's mother currently is in a nursing home with dementia while her father passed away a long time ago. At one point in the conversation, Mara recounted, "I was putting on some earrings recently that my mother had given me and this suddenly made me so... Read more Chevron

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BOB

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posted 04/12/2008, comments (5)

comment on "Whites fare worst with Alzheimer's disease"

Who wants to survive longer with Alzheimer's? Put me in front of a train, drop me off the bridge - please. Studies like this a a waist of resources that should be directed at prevention and/or cures.

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