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Is Your D on the Decline?

Is Your D on the Decline?
By Stephanie Mellor, DNP, ARNP, ANP-C, GNP-C, CCCN

An increased desire and awareness of vitamin D’s benefits has been on the rise. Why? A variety of unwanted conditions have been linked with low levels of vitamin D, including: heart disease, diabetes, cancer, mental illnesses such as depression, chronic pain, falls and fractures, osteoporosis and osteoarthritis, fatigue, influenza, and autoimmune diseases. […]

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Handling the Holidays When You’re Feeling Blue

Handling the Holidays When You’re Feeling Blue

Courtesy Jenkins-Soffe, Salt Lake City LIVING WELL Magazine

We often hear the greeting “Happy Holidays” this time of year, but if you’re grieving the loss of a loved one, the holiday season may be anything but happy. Sometimes the holidays cause us to be more aware of the empty space that our loved one has left behind. […]

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A path towards healing

A PATH TOWARDS HEALING
Learning to find hope after the death of a family member

Johnson County LIVING WELL Magazine

In the U.S. today, there is a natural, assumed order to the deaths we will experience in our lives. We believe that our grandparents will die first, then our parents, then our brothers and sisters, and then our children. […]

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Movement Rejuvenation

Movement Rejuvenation, Part 2
By Fred Miller, DC

At Doctors Chiropractic and Physical Therapy Group, we are specialists in movement rejuvenation. We restore motion of your joints and muscles, improve balance and bring back vitality and strength. You have lost so much of this over the years of taking care of everything else…except yourself. […]

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Lacombe Nursing Centre: Rehab S.T.E.P.S. Program and “Eldergarten”

Lacombe Nursing Centre

Rehab S.T.E.P.S. Program and “Eldergarten”

By Samantha R. Young, MCD CCC/SLP, Program Manager

The Rehab Department of Lacombe Nursing Centre developed and launched two interventions last fall that have been very successful with the residents that have participated, especially those who have returned home – S.T.E.P.S. Program and “Eldergarten.” […]

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Managing Menopause with Chinese Medicine

Managing Menopause with Chinese Medicine

By Ashley Miller, MSTOM, ACA

Menopause marks a great transition in a woman’s life. Most women cringe at the thought of going through this change because of some of the “side-effects” that it seems to bring. The hormonal changes that accompany menopause often cause hot flashes, night sweats, mood swings, insomnia, fatigue, and dryness, among other complaints. […]

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Health & Fitness

“It’s All About Timing: Total Joint Replacements”

“It’s All About Timing: Total Joint Replacements”

By Greg Zelden, PT, Director of Physical Therapy, Fairway Medical Surgical Hospital

When is it time to choose total joint replacement? Based solely on the personal nature of elective surgical procedures, one would anticipate their own need to elect surgical intervention. Yet, this is not a decision which is made easily; and, in some instances, the choice is made poorly. They wait too late. […]

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Emeritus at Overland Park

Emeritus at Overland Park
DESIGNED TO MEET THE RESIDENTS’ NEEDS…

Johnson County LIVING WELL Magazine

A small community, Emeritus at Overland Park is divided into four separate houses all within the same building. Country Lane, Garden Path, Boathouse Cove, and Cottage Place each have its own indoor porch and front door. The houses are built around a center that includes the art studio, community room, beauty shop, and health center. […]

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Elder Abuse

Elder Abuse
By Linda Ahlhelm, RN, Elder Abuse Expert

Johnson County LIVING WELL Magazine

Elder abuse is the mistreatment of an older person by someone who has a relationship with that person. It could be a spouse, child, friend, neighbor, caregiver or acquaintance. The actual abuse can occur in the home of a relative, the elder’s own home, or the home of an unrelated caregiver. […]

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A path towards healing: learning to find hope after the death of a family member

A PATH TOWARDS HEALING
Learning to find hope after the death of a family member

Johnson County LIVING WELL Magazine

In the U.S. today, there is a natural, assumed order to the deaths we will experience in our lives. We believe that our grandparents will die first, then our parents, then our brothers and sisters, and then our children. […]