Posted 2-28-20 Happy Friday, all! Another week (nearly) in the books and still no cure or life-extending treatments, but we march on toward that end. It has been an eventful week, as they all seem to be, ending today with a brief appearance on KY3, or local NBC affiliate, talking about our new SeniorAge Alert…
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What Do I Do With This Information??? –OR– Wild Goose Chases Run Amok
Posted 2-27-20 Did you know that there has never been a diagnosis of Schizophrenia applied to a person born blind due to cortical blindness ? Psychology Today adds “across all past papers, there has not been even one reported case of (any) congenitally blind person who developed schizophrenia.” People who go blind, even at a…
10 Things You Can Learn About Dementia from Weight Watchers (WW)
Posted 1-28-20 Howdy all! I trust your week is going swimmingly, or at least better than some weeks. 🙂 Mine is fine. Mom is still doing about the same as of yesterday. Her doctor is pleased with her slight weight loss, something we have worked on carefully by reducing some portions out of fear that…
8 Senior-Focused Products from the Consumer Electronics Show
Posted 1-16-20 Another week flying by! (Don’t they all???) Thank you every last one of you for visiting again today! Thank you to the casually-interested reader! Thank you to the in-the-trenches, 36/7/366 caregiver! Thank you to the one who is doing his or her best but can’t help as much as you would like! Thank…
CES: An Overview
Posted 1-15-20 I will give some quick tech/worldview opinions of what I witnessed throughout the next several days, but today I just wanted to set the stage. First some impressive numbers from 2019 (2020 hasn’t been released yet, but was bigger in all areas according to most media accounts: More than 4,400 exhibiting companies and…
From Glass Houses
Posted 11-13-19 First let me say that I do NOT believe in Karma. In my humble opinion, there is no impersonal force ruling situations to right the universe somehow. It defies logic and, frankly, is doing a terrible job had it been true. Lots of bad things happen all the time with no obvious repercussion….
Food for Thought
Posted Friday… 10-18-19 So, I have been thinking about how to help more and more people with less and less time and resources available. Our support group has wonderful potential to help 10-15 people soon as the word gets out, and I expect great things from it. I would like to be able to help…
Stand By
Posted 8-5-19 One of my hats–my biggest hat— at my career with SeniorAge (much of Southern Missouri’s Agency on Aging) is that of I.T. Director. I fix computers, I set up software. I manage the server. You know…geeky stuff. Among the many responsibilities of this technical position is managing cell phones, often a headache of…
Stigma and the Brain
Posted 6-4-19 “The single most important barrier to overcome in the community is the stigma and associated discrimination towards persons suffering from mental and behavioral disorders.” – The World Health Organization Stigma is a mark of disgrace that sets a person apart from others. When a person is labelled by their illness they are no…