All About Estates, Feb 16, 2012: by Audrey Miller With Valentine’s day behind us, romance and sex continue to be alive and well. The baby boomers are getting older and while 60 has become the new 40, and 75 the new 60, healthy sex continues to be a favorite topic. However it may still be [...]
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Written on Feb 8, 2012, by Audrey Miller at allaboutestates.ca. Today Bell Canada is supporting mental health awareness with their “Let’s Talk Campaign”. While mental health week in Canada is May 7- 13, 2012 , Bell has opted to talk openly about mental illness with the hope of reducing stigma so that people can get [...]
Written on January 23, 2012 – 7:49 am | by Audrey Miller, allaboutestates.ca: January continues with Alzheimer’s Awareness Month. While I fear that this will be the largest medical challenge we will be facing over the next many years, we are not well prepared. Most of us are in denial. We don’t want to acknowledge [...]
Written on January 13, 2012 – 7:49 am | by Audrey Miller, allaboutestates.ca While there is no known cure, researchers (Lancet Neurology:July 19, 2011,Early Online Publication) have identified common risk factors for the development of Alzheimer’s Disease. These risk factors include: * Low education: “Use it or lose it” is an important credo in Alzheimer’s [...]
Written on January 5, 2012 – 7:27 am | by Audrey Miller, allaboutestates.ca. I am so glad that another year has passed; considering the alternative….. While there may be moments that we despair I am glad to be on this side of the grass. On this positive note, I wanted to highlight research that is [...]
Holidays and families A little jingle to get you going…… T’ was the fight before Christmas, When all families know, It’s better to forgive than tell them to F. O., Mom probably liked you better, if memory serves, So while I am a P.O.A., she will get what she deserves, All families are strange, of [...]
December 14, 2011; By: Audrey Miller All About Estates Staying in the hospital over any holiday period can be difficult. There is often a desire by families and hospitals alike to move people out of the hospital and back into the community. One of the all too common themes is the push to have patients [...]
December 6, 2011; By: Audrey Miller All About Estates Holidays are partially about tradition and in keeping with that theme, I have reprinted a holiday recipe that I wrote and was printed in CARP magazine. It is getting to be that time again and holidays are around the corner. Do your parents live in another [...]
November 28, 2011; By: Audrey Miller All About Estates There has been much discussion lately regarding end of life decisions. Most recently the Court of Appeal of Ontario released its decision in June 2011 in the case of Rasouli v Sunnybrook Health Science Centre which looked at whether or not removal from a mechanical ventilator [...]
November 18, 2011; By: Audrey Miller All About Estates Older adults who are over the age of 60 are five times more likely to have a higher risk rate of suicide than younger people. Depression is the most common mental health concern for older adults, affecting between 15 to 20 percent of older adults living [...]
