The Rising Costs of Health Care by Tracy E. Hill, Ph.D. While running on the treadmill recently, I saw a commercial for a credit card that promised “cash back” and a business man who received $36,000 cash back on his card. He said he used the money to pay for his employees health care. That Read more
Three Pitfalls to Avoid When Retiring by Michael J. Orr You have worked hard and have had a long career. But for the last several years, you have had one eye on your calendar and one eye on your 401K balance. Now the big day has arrived, and you have said your goodbyes around the Read more
Finding My Feet by S. Nadja Zajdman One early autumn, I joined a hiking club in my native Montreal. My intention was to find a way into nature. I don’t own a car. The most I hoped for was to sit quietly on the school bus, without being bothered, as it transported our group of active Read more
Clawing My Way Out by Donna Scrafano I was raised in a family with three brothers. I was the only girl. Our cultural norms were those of our predominantly Italian community in the West Ward section of Easton, Pennsylvania. We all knew each other, and all the parents treated the neighborhood children as their own. Read more
Silver Sage Tri’s at Rock Hall, MD By Tracy E. Hill After a disappointing non-start back in June for a triathlon in Long Beach Island, Manahawkin New Jersey (due to a herniated disk the day before the tri), I was excited for my upcoming triathlon in Rock Hall, Maryland. However, due to the unexpected herniated Read more
Finding Yourself in the Empty Nest by Christina Fain Undeniably, the infamous midlife crisis is not a myth, but we tend to associate this with balding men driving red convertibles. We don’t have an image of women navigating this time of life, not even a funny one! This transitional period affects women, specifically mothers, on Read more
All Joking Aside, Laughter Is Healthy for You by J’Nel Wright Why did the chicken cross the road? It doesn’t matter as long as it’s funny. Not only does a good gag make us giggle, experts say laughter is actually good for our health. If you are debating between downloading the latest chick flick versus Read more
Ultra Orthodox Jews Suffer Depression from Caregiving A new study conducted by Band-Winterstein, Edelstein, et. al and recently published in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, demonstrates that even Ultra Orthodox Jews are prone to the depressive symptoms often found in caregivers. In this study, 68 female Ultra Orthodox Jewish caregivers (UOJ) and 44 male UOJ Read more
A new article published this week in Psychology and Aging (Mantantzis, Konstantinos, Maylor, et. al.) found that providing glucose as an energy source through a sugar drink helped increase heart rate associated with higher task engagement. More importantly, the increase in glucose levels also improved cognitive performance on a memory test at various levels of Read more
Knowing that your loved one has dementia is difficult enough, but when that person refuses to accept their changing needs and abilities, it creates an even greater burden on the family. Sometimes it’s the caregiver who refuses to accept the declining behavior of a loved one, but more often, it is the person with dementia who fails to see the warning signs. Read more
