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	<title>Seniors For Living &#187; Senior Health</title>
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		<title>Health Reform Update: Senior Issues</title>
		<link>http://www.seniorsforliving.com/blog/2009/10/26/health-reform-update-senior-issues/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seniorsforliving.com/blog/2009/10/26/health-reform-update-senior-issues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MSeitzer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Senior News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senior News from Washington]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The health care reform buzz may be front and center in the news these days, but with so many media outlets and so many opinions, it’s not easy to keep up. And yet it is most certainly an issue that many of us are watching with great concern and curiosity.
A number of senior advocacy organizations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)</title>
		<link>http://www.seniorsforliving.com/blog/2009/10/13/winter-afftects-chronic-obstructive-pulmonary-disease-copd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ethielke</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Economy of Aging]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[COPD]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As winter draws near, people with respiratory problems are waiting with bated breath. The winter months often cause an exacerbation or acute worsening of COPD symptoms, often leading to other illnesses and even hospitalizations. When I worked in the emergency room, I saw firsthand that a large percentage of hospital admissions this time of year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I&#8217;ve just been diagnosed with Macular Degeneration&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.seniorsforliving.com/blog/2009/10/02/ive-just-been-diagnosed-with-macular-degeneration/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seniorsforliving.com/blog/2009/10/02/ive-just-been-diagnosed-with-macular-degeneration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baby Boomers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guest Blog Posts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Q&A Discussion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senior Health]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seniorsforliving.com/blog/?p=1217</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This guest blog post is contributed by Boomerater, a free online resource for Baby Boomers helping you find everything from financial advisors to trip ideas. Seniors for Living contributes its properties to Boomerater’s senior housing directory.
 
A new Q&#38;A discussion from Boomerater’s forums appears here each Friday. In this week’s post, members share their experiences [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memory Problems and High Blood Pressure</title>
		<link>http://www.seniorsforliving.com/blog/2009/10/01/memory-problems-and-high-blood-pressure/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seniorsforliving.com/blog/2009/10/01/memory-problems-and-high-blood-pressure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ethielke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Senior Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Academy of Neurology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dementia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[memory loss]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, memory problems are dismissed as being just part of getting older, but they can be a subtle sign of something more. New research from the American Academy of Neurology shows that memory problems in middle age may be related to high blood pressure:
High blood pressure is linked to memory problems in people over 45, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mechanics of Getting Some Sleep</title>
		<link>http://www.seniorsforliving.com/blog/2009/09/24/the-mechanics-of-getting-some-sleep/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seniorsforliving.com/blog/2009/09/24/the-mechanics-of-getting-some-sleep/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dawnlovsj</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seniorsforliving.com/blog/?p=1177</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This guest blog post is contributed by Boomerater, a free online resource for Baby Boomers helping you find everything from a Chicago financial advisor to family vacations. Seniors for Living contributes its senior housing properties to Boomerater’s local directories including Minnesota Alzheimer&#8217;s Care, Missouri assisted living,  and more.
A new Q&#38;A discussion from Boomerater’s forums [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Fall&#8217;s Swine Flu Vaccine: What You Need to Know</title>
		<link>http://www.seniorsforliving.com/blog/2009/09/24/this-falls-swine-flu-vaccine-what-you-need-to-know/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seniorsforliving.com/blog/2009/09/24/this-falls-swine-flu-vaccine-what-you-need-to-know/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ethielke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Senior Health]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seniorsforliving.com/blog/?p=690</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Swine Flu (H1N1 virus) was all over the news this year, and is still around. Now, health experts are concerned that a second wave is occurring as kids head back to school.
The Food and Drug Administration announced that approximately 160 million doses of a Swine Flu vaccine should be ready by October. And who will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tips for Buying a Hearing Aid</title>
		<link>http://www.seniorsforliving.com/blog/2009/09/21/tips-for-buying-a-hearing-aid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seniorsforliving.com/blog/2009/09/21/tips-for-buying-a-hearing-aid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ethielke</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[affordable hearing aids]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cost of hearing aids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hearing aids]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many people, one of the signs of aging is gradual hearing loss. Many people resist buying hearing aids because of a reluctance to admit a disability or they don&#8217;t even realize they have a hearing problem. But perhaps the biggest deterrent? Hearing aids can cost thousands of dollars each, depending on the equipment:
About 37 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Striking the Balance: Tips for Aging Parents and Adult Children</title>
		<link>http://www.seniorsforliving.com/blog/2009/09/15/striking-the-balance-tips-for-aging-parents-and-adult-children/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seniorsforliving.com/blog/2009/09/15/striking-the-balance-tips-for-aging-parents-and-adult-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MSeitzer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sandwich Generation stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senior Health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent issue of Southeastern PA’s Senior Guidebook, I found an intriguing article called “Taming Your Adult Children” that offered practical, albeit tongue-in-cheek strategies for keeping well-meaning adult children in check.
I’ve seen it firsthand in dealing with my own family. And while I never doubted that my parents, aunts and uncles had my grandfather’s best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exercise Improves Spatial Memory in Seniors</title>
		<link>http://www.seniorsforliving.com/blog/2009/09/01/exercise-improves-spatial-memory-in-seniors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seniorsforliving.com/blog/2009/09/01/exercise-improves-spatial-memory-in-seniors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ethielke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Senior Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aging]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chalk up another benefit of exercising. Researchers have found that elderly adults who are more physically fit tend to have bigger hippocampus size and better spatial memory than those who are less fit:
The researchers, from the University of Illinois and the University of Pittsburgh, measured the cardiorespiratory fitness of 165 adults (109 of them female) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A Strong Middle Class&#8221; Targets Health Care for Seniors</title>
		<link>http://www.seniorsforliving.com/blog/2009/08/31/a-strong-middle-class-targets-health-care-for-seniors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seniorsforliving.com/blog/2009/08/31/a-strong-middle-class-targets-health-care-for-seniors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ethielke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Senior Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senior News from Washington]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[early retirees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vice President Joe Biden chairs a task force called A Strong Middle Class that is targeted at raising the living standards of middle-class, working families in America. One of their initiatives is more stable and secure health care for seniors.
The middle class task force recently held a health care reform discussion in Alexandria, VA with [...]]]></description>
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