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Minding our Elders: Hospice chaplains can help people accept pending death

INFORUMDear Carol: My dad is dying of esophageal cancer at the age of 67. Mom died 16 years ago, so it has been just Dad and me for a long...

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Minding our Elders: Why end-of-life documents should be fluid

INFORUM"Code Blue!" A voice cries out in the Emergency Department. "Is there a doctor who can 'tube' a patient in Cardiac Cath Lab?"These beginning lines of "Wishes To Die...

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Minding our Elders: Alzheimer's diagnosis draws unwelcome remarks

INFORUMDear Carol: My husband is 57 and he has been diagnosed with younger onset Alzheimer's disease. We are both devastated but are trying to make the best of something that...

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Minding Our Elders: Elder should decide how aggressively to treat cancer

INFORUMDear Carol: My 88-year-old mother recently had a mammogram, and they've discovered a cancerous lump in her breast. I think she should have surgery and treatment, but the doctor says...

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Minding our Elders: Dementia-driven sexual gestures need thoughtful response

INFORUMDear Carol: After Mom died seven years ago, Dad adjusted as well as could be expected. However, over the last three years he's been sliding into dementia. He's confused about...

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Minding our Elders: Alarming dementia-like symptoms can have other causes

INFORUMDear Carol: My 75-year-old husband has been reasonably healthy, but lately I've found he either doesn't understand what I've told him or doesn't remember what I said. For example, I...

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Minding our Elders: Hospital Compare a useful tool for evaluating hospitals...

INFORUMDear Carol: My wife and I are on Medicare, which allows us to go to any hospital we choose. We're aware that people our age are more likely to be...

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Minding Our Elders: Elders may use complaints to boost sense of control

INFORUMDear Carol: Over the past several years, I've been helping my mother stay in her apartment, but we finally decided together that she'd now be safer in assisted living. She...

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Minding Our Elders: Overly emotional responses upsetting to stroke victim's...

INFORUMDear Carol: My father was always quietly supportive. He loved his family but showed little emotion. Six months ago, he had a stroke and is now in a nursing home....

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Minding Our Elders: Proper dementia diagnosis may require referral to specialist

INFORUMDear Carol: My 81-year-old grandma has been healthy all of her life. Her only doctor is a family physician who is very nice but nearing retirement himself. Grandma lives alone....

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Minding Our Elders: Memory slips not always related to dementia

INFORUMDear Carol: My mother is 62. There's never been dementia in my family that I know of, but I still worry. Mom sometimes loses her train of thought when she's...

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Minding Our Elders: New one-stop website connects elders and caregivers to...

INFORUMDear Readers: Throughout the decade that I've been answering questions about aging and caregiving, I've been continually unsatisfied with the need to refer seniors and caregivers to multiple...

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Minding Our Elders: Hearing aids, eyeglasses can add challenges in dementia care

INFORUMDear Carol: My mom had a stroke and recently has been diagnosed with vascular dementia with possible Alzheimer's disease. Dad is her primary caregiver although I go to their home...

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Minding Our Elders: Some seniors caring for ailing spouse as well as aged parent

INFORUMDear Carol: My husband and I are both 71 years old and have been married 48 years. I've got afew health problems, including high blood pressure, however my husband...

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Minding Our Elders: Grieving process is personal, can take months or years

INFORUMDear Carol: My dad was always a cheerful person up until my mother got sick with pancreatic cancer. She died within three months of her diagnosis, which was over a...

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Minding Our Elders: How can we offer comfort during impending death from a...

INFORUMDear Carol: My wife and I live nearly a thousand miles away from my brother and his family, but we've always been emotionally close. Now, my brother is dying of...

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Minding Our Elders: Caregivers need to be conscious of good moments

INFORUMDear Carol: Both of my parents have had significant health issues during the last few years. Lately, things have been good. They live in their own home and I check...

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Minding Our Elders: Wishing an incurably ill loved one could die suggests...

INFORUMDear Carol: My mom survived cancer in her mid-years. Now, she's developed dementia and has also battled three rounds of pneumonia. It seems that each illness she's survived has diminished...

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Minding Our Elders: Should elders with dementia be told the family home must...

INFORUMDear Carol: My mother has been in a nursing home for two years because of strokes and vascular dementia combined with Alzheimer's. It's obvious that she'll never go home. Dad...

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Minding Our Elders: Should someone with Alzheimer's move to another state?

INFORUMDear Carol: My husband and I hate northern winters and vowed to move south when we retired. Anywhere warm. Now, with retirement near, my husband has developed younger-onset Alzheimer's disease....

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