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Loneliness is bad for your health. This new campaign aims to curb isolation
A new national campaign rolling out on Wednesday aims to raise awareness of a hidden but devastating complication of aging: loneliness.Tens of millions of adults are chronically lonely. And a growing...
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Dementia and Alzheimer's leading cause of death in England and Wales
Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias have replaced ischaemic heart disease as the leading cause of death in England and Wales for the first time.Last year, 61,686 (11.6%) out of a total of 529,655...
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Caring for the Caregiver
Caregiving can take a toll on all those who love and care for the older loved one in need of help. Perhaps those who are quickly forgotten are the spouses, children and friends of the caregiver who...
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Caregiving Costly to Family Caregivers
The rewards of caring for a loved one who needs our help can be substantial. It’s an opportunity to pay something back, to offer a return on the loving investment someone once made in us. It’s a chance...
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Animal Shelter Teams Up With Assisted Living Facility To Save Orphaned Kittens
Kittens that become separated from their mothers before they are weaned have a very low rate of survival unless a surrogate steps in.With this in mind, rescuers at the Pima Animal Care Center in...
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Colorado voters fire one judge after bad review
DENVER - Voters in Colorado fired one of the two district court judges who failed their official reviews in 2016. Judge Jill-Ellyn Straus will lose her job as judge in the 17th judicial district (Adams...
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Chicago nursing home fined after residents overdose on heroin
State and federal health officials are seeking penalties totaling more than $100,000 from a North Side nursing home after five residents overdosed on heroin inside the facility in February, the Tribune...
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65 Minutes - a Tale of Torture and Murder in Guardianship, by Teresa Lyles
This is a true story of the horrors in Guardianship Court where Teresa Lyles, PhD lost her mother to an abusive system and several abusive "guardians" who allowed her precious Cuban mother to be...
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NC woman convicted of elder abuse after draining man’s life savings
Christy Paffenroth FergusonWILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) – A Wilmington woman pleaded guilty recently to elder abuse, in a crime that came as a shock even to prosecutors who routinely try these kinds of...
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Akron couple charged with stealing more than $600,000 from elderly father
An Akron man and his wife were charged with stealing more than $600,000 from his father’s bank account.Summit County sheriff’s deputies arrested Kevin J. Story, 42, and his wife, Crystal J. Hennacy...
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Judge gets reproach for tardy case ruling
Pulaski County Circuit Judge Mary McGowan has accepted an "informal adjustment" for taking too long to rule on a lawsuit in her court, the Arkansas Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission...
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Woman fights to keep family resort open amid battle over trust, estate
TANNERSVILLE, N.Y. — It was 54 years ago when a family of immigrants from Trieste, Italy brought their brand of comfort food and hospitality to the Catskill Mountains, opening a resort called Villa...
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Senior citizens frequent targets of scammers
Senior citizens lose $36.5 billion a year to scams, according to a 2015 True Link Report on Elder Financial Abuse.Nila Howard of Columbus, who was on the receiving end of a scam attempt last week,...
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Fake "love scam" drains 92-year-old man's savings
It’s called the “Fake Love Scam,” and it’s heartbreaking: Younger people woo and even marry elderly victims -- then strip them of everything they have, CBS Chicago reported.The scam is a legal...
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Investigation finds widespread abuse of the disabled
CHICAGO (AP) — A newspaper investigation found more than a thousand cases of abuse and neglect of Illinois adults with disabilities who were placed into private group homes.The Chicago Tribune says its...
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Woman to pay restitution, serve jail time for exploiting 93-year-old
CHARLESTON -- A woman was ordered to pay restitution and to spend time in jail after she admitted stealing money from a 93-year-old woman.Nikola M. Cone, 37, for whom court records list an address of...
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Maja Daniels Wins First Photographic Grant on Alzheimer’s
Rethinking Alzheimer's behind one closed doorSwedish photographer Maja Daniels has won the first Bob and Diane Fund grant, a photographic grant dedicated to visual storytelling about Alzheimer’s...
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93 Year-Old Hosts "Great Depression Cooking"
93 year old cook and great grandmother, Clara, recounts her childhood during the Great Depression as she prepares meals from the era. Learn how to make simple yet delicious dishes while listening to...
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They’re Growing Older. Their Mortgage Debt Is Growing Deeper.
It was a modest house, a two-bedroom ranch in Arlington, Mass. Jerri and Richard Newman had to stretch to buy it for $169,000 in 1996, but with his job at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and her freelance...
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Repo Man Helps Pay Off Bill for Elderly Couple's Repossessed Car
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, a car repo worker recently helped an elderly couple pay off the outstanding bill on their car, which he had to repossess after they fell behind on their payments."It's...
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