Caring for Parents, Raising Teens, Staying Healthy and Sane
By CK Wilde for 3GenFamily Blog
Dear San Jose Mercury News Editor,
When does comedy and caricature slide into lies and slander? In today’s Mallard Fillmore comic. (It featured a caricature of President Obama and suggests that Obama wants to get rid of old people.)
Publishing outright lies is not being fair and balanced. It is reinforcing the [...]
By CK Wilde for 3GenFamily Blog
“Does your Dad wear dentures?” the nurse asked.
“Yes, partials.” It seemed like an odd question at that moment as the hospital staff were preparing my father for a procedure.
“Is he wearing them now?” the nurse persisted.
“I . . . I don’t know,” I said slowly as I tried to peek [...]
By CK Wilde for 3GenFamily Blog
This is Part One in a two part series about recognizing the signs of dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease so that aging family members can get the help they need.
By the time Lita Baker came to see Dr. Susan Steen,
Lita, a frail woman in her 80s, was already on Aricept and [...]
By CK Wilde for 3GenFamily Blog
The statistics are grim. As many as 5 million Americans are living with some form of dementia. Alzheimer’s is the most common form — destroying more and more brain cells over time until the person loses memory and the ability to function. It is the sixth leading cause of death [...]
By CK Wilde for 3GenFamily Blog
The FDA is finally responding to a 16,690-person study from pharmacy-benefits company Medco Health Solutions Inc. which suggests that people who take both Plavix, the anticlotting drug and certain heartburn drugs, called proton-pump inhibitors, have a 50% higher risk of a heart attack or other cardiac event compared to those [...]
By CK Wilde for 3GenFamily Blog
Truth is scarier than the movies. Forget about Saw V. Just keep reading . . .
Back on September 29, 2008, the chocolate maker Cadbury recalled chocolate products in Asia and Australia because the milk in the product was potentially tainted with melamine.
On October 8, 2008, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency [...]
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We stood for a long moment at the entrance to airport security. At eight thirty five p.m., the usual bustle of this busy airport had slowed to a trickle of passengers and flight crews tired and happy to be home. There were also a few travelers preparing to take a “red eye”, one of those late evening flights of last [...]
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