Dr. Michael Gordon, a successful and prominent Canadian geriatrician, ethicist, educator, speaker, and author, presents “Brooklyn Beginnings,” a memoir examining his quest from humble beginnings in Brooklyn to his current renowned medical status in Toronto. “Brooklyn Beginnings” is a unique memoir tracing Dr. Gordon’s path to becoming a prominent and highly respected academic geriatrician. It is not a typical autobiography: it pieces together numerous connected anecdotes that helped form the f
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Alzheimer’s disease will have significant and life-changing effects on both the patient and the caregiver involved. Caring for an individual who is sick with Alzheimer’s at home presents difficult challenges. The most basic daily activities, including eating, bathing and finding activities for the patient to perform can be laborious to manage on one’s own. The Importance of Healthy Caregivers: Take note that the caregiver plays a very important role regarding the quality of life a patient wit
Welcome to the August 26, 2009 edition of eldercareabc carnival. Edie Dykeman presents Home Care: Geriatric Care Managers Can Remove the Worry of Long Distant Parenting posted at Elder Care Cafe , saying, “Geriatric care managers oversee any and all areas of care of an elderly loved one, providing a sense of peace and well-being for adult children near and far .” Mary N. presents Andy Griffith to Star in Elderly Dating Movie posted at Eldercare on Hubpages , saying, “S
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New York Times: Sunday Book Review cover: Walter Kirn on Methland by Nick Reding: The book, wrought from old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting of a type that’s disappearing faster than nonfranchised lunch counters on Main Street, isn’t chiefly a tale of drugs and crime, of dysfunction and despair, but a recession-era tragedy scaled for an 'Our Town,' Thornton Wilder stage and seemingly based on a script by William S. Burroughs . As Reding painstakingly presents it, the production, distr
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