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Lifeline for Medicare ?

Lifeline for Medicare ?
By Tucker Thompson, Collin County LIVING WELL Magazine

With “baby boomers” turning 65, questions abound about the financial “stability” of Medicare. And Congress “struggles” with renewed focus on finding ways to ensure our funds will last past 2024! […]

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Dry Eyes and the Cornea

Dry Eyes and the Cornea
Courtesy Advanced Eye Care Center, Denton LIVING WELL Magazine

Dry or irritated eyes can be a symptom of a tear disorder that limits the ability to protect the cornea and eye surface. The symptoms can vary and may include sandy or gritty eyes, burning, soreness and eye fatigue. Each person may respond differently to this irregularity in the tears. Patients may not know the severity of the damage to the cornea and ocular surface by symptoms alone. […]

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Living with Parkinson's Disease

Living with Parkinson’s Disease
By Joan Weems, RN, Texoma LIVING WELL Magazine

Parkinson’s disease is a disorder of certain nerve cells in the brain that normally produce a chemical called dopamine, which helps the brain direct and control smooth, coordinated function of the body’s muscles and movement. In Parkinson’s disease, these dopamine-producing nerve cells break down and die or become impaired. When 80% of those dopamine-producing cells are damaged, the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease are seen. […]

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Making the Most of Our Golden Years

Making the Most of Our Golden Years
By Shirley Long, Collin County LIVING WELL Magazine

Have the “Golden Years” crept up on you when you weren’t looking? It may seem as though one day you had a house full of children or grandchildren, you were busy with careers and an active social life…and then you looked around and discovered your life has changed dramatically. […]

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Are Your Hearing Aids Working Their Best?

Are Your Hearing Aids Working Their Best?
By Celia McCormick, Au.D., Collin County LIVING WELL Magazine

Just like cell phones, televisions, and tablet computers, hearing aids have gone through an amazing technology change during the past five years. Despite all of these incredible advances, patients occasionally come into the office and say, “My hearing aids just don’t work.” If YOU have ever said this, ask yourself… […]

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The Calm before the Surgery

The Calm before the Surgery
Courtesy Heritage Park Surgical Hospital

Most people would prefer to not have any type of surgery in their lifetime. They are fearful of the operation, the anesthesia, the hospital itself, what their family and loved ones will be doing, and some even fear that first IV needle. Whether elective or emergent, the chances are that you will have to undergo some type of surgery in your lifetime. […]

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A Simple Way to Transfer Wealth

A Simple Way to Transfer Wealth

Courtesy Dan and R. Brennan Barlow, Denton County LIVING WELL Magazine

Thanks to the 2010 tax-relief legislation, the rules for estate planning are very favorable in 2012. This two-year window of opportunity provides the incentive to act now. […]

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Women and Stroke: Stroke kills twice as many women as breast cancer

Women and Stroke
Stroke kills twice as many women as breast cancer every year

Courtesy Twin Creeks Hospital, Collin County LIVING WELL Magazine

Did you know?

425,000 women suffer from stroke each year, 55,000 more than men
Only 27% of women could name more than two or three of the six primary stroke symptoms […]

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Health and Wellness in Senior Living

A Stitch in Time
Health and Wellness in Senior Living
By Nancy Martin, RN, The Vintage, Denton LIVING WELL Magazine

One of my most vivid memories of my grandmother is of her sitting near her den window, sewing basket beside her, darning socks for her large family. […]