Year: 2011

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Camellia Gardens provides the retirement lifestyle you deserve – LIVING WELL Magazine

November 16, 2011 LIVING WELL Magazine Comments Off on Camellia Gardens provides the retirement lifestyle you deserve – LIVING WELL Magazine

Worried about finding a Retirement Home for yourself or loved one?

Here at Camellia Gardens, we provide the lifestyle you deserve

By Kyonna Williams, Camellia Gardens, Northshore LIVING WELL Magazine

Camellia Gardens Retirement Community offers residents several types of living arrangements, including independent living, assisted living, and memory care (Alzheimer) care. We help older adults maintain their independence, health and wellbeing in a safe and comfortable environment. Residents can trade in the uncertainties of living alone and the responsibilities of maintaining a home for the affordable services that simplify life. […]

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Cardinal Village: Antioxidants: Myth, Miracle or Mystery – LIVING WELL Magazine

November 16, 2011 LIVING WELL Magazine Comments Off on Cardinal Village: Antioxidants: Myth, Miracle or Mystery – LIVING WELL Magazine

Antioxidants: Myth, Miracle or Mystery?

By Steve Kurtz, Cardinal Village, LIVING WELL Magazine
With each visit to the supermarket or pharmacy, there appears to be a growing number of products claiming to be a major source for antioxidants. We’re told of the many potential benefits of antioxidants including mental enhancement, disease prevention and even longevity, but just how much do we really know about this super nutrient? […]

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Care Initiatives Hospice on knowing the benefits of hospice for you and your loved ones – LIVING WELL Magazine

November 15, 2011 LIVING WELL Magazine Comments Off on Care Initiatives Hospice on knowing the benefits of hospice for you and your loved ones – LIVING WELL Magazine

Get to Know the Benefits of Hospice for You and Your Loved Ones

Courtesy Care Initiatives Hospice, Linn County LIVING WELL Magazine

Hospice care enhances comfort and promotes the quality of life for individuals and their families when cure is no longer likely. Care Initiatives Hospice recognizes that peace and comfort in the closing months of life are essential goals of health care. […]

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First Texas Home Health on the social worker's role in achieving individualized home health care – LIVING WELL Magazine

November 15, 2011 LIVING WELL Magazine Comments Off on First Texas Home Health on the social worker's role in achieving individualized home health care – LIVING WELL Magazine

The Social Worker’s Role in Achieving Individualized Home Health Care

By Megan Adams, LMSW, First Texas Home Health, Texoma and Denton LIVING WELL Magazine
One of the beneficial aspects of providing healthcare in the home is the opportunity for providers to get to know the patient as an individual. Therapists, nurses, and social workers work with patients based on environmental factors that make their situation unique. This also happens to be the very thing that makes home health more challenging. When evaluating a person’s personal environment there are factors to consider. […]

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Copley Place on wintertime safety for seniors – LIVING WELL Magazine

November 14, 2011 LIVING WELL Magazine Comments Off on Copley Place on wintertime safety for seniors – LIVING WELL Magazine

Wintertime Safety

By Sydney from Copley Place, Copley Place, Akron LIVING WELL Magazine
It is good to be like the Boy Scouts, and heed their motto: “ BE PREPARED ” … “the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.” Robert Baden-Powell […]

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Visionary Medical Imaging on 10 facts about healthcare costs – LIVING WELL Magazine

November 14, 2011 LIVING WELL Magazine Comments Off on Visionary Medical Imaging on 10 facts about healthcare costs – LIVING WELL Magazine

10 Facts about Healthcare Costs
Courtesy Visionary Medical Imaging, Texoma LIVING WELL Magazine
Most of us are fairly good about comparison shopping. Except when it comes to medical care. We simply go where we’re told, have our tests done and pay the bill––whatever the price. There’s a better way. […]

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The Nutrition Company talks wheatgrass – LIVING WELL Magazine

November 13, 2011 LIVING WELL Magazine Comments Off on The Nutrition Company talks wheatgrass – LIVING WELL Magazine

What is Wheatgrass?

By Catherine Wilbert, ND, The Nutrition Company, Northshore LIVING WELL Magazine
Often mistaken for alfalfa or a small piece of your front lawn, wheatgrass can altogether confuse some people. But wheatgrass is simply the young wheat plant. The same wheat that makes up your morning toast is actually mature wheatgrass. Considered a vegetable when harvested in its young stage, wheatgrass can provide a wide range of health benefits. […]

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The Neurosurgery Center of Colorado talks brain tumors – LIVING WELL Magazine

November 13, 2011 LIVING WELL Magazine Comments Off on The Neurosurgery Center of Colorado talks brain tumors – LIVING WELL Magazine

Brain Tumors

By Adam P. Smith, MD, The Neurosurgery Center of Colorado, East Denver LIVING WELL Magazine
Brain tumors are tumors inside of the skull. They occur when cells start dividing and replicating uncontrollably. Tumors can either originate from the brain tissue itself, the tissues covering the brain, blood vessels, or other structures in or around the brain. Cancer may also spread, or metastasize, to become a brain tumor. […]