RE-EDITED DEC 2014 TO ADD LINKS FOR THE TOPIC IN THE TITLE
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November 9 - (tentative) diary by paininzeeback or "Protein Folding" by Darwinian Detritus (is it sorta like supermicroscopic origami?)
November 16 - Cumulative PTSD by boatsie
November 23 - (tentative) diary by oslyn7
November 30 - Psoriatic Arthritis by Gwennedd
Dec 7 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: bring a favorite(?) household disaster!
Dec 14 - Medical Marijuana by side pocket, "co-produced" with the Kitchen Table Kibitzing group! SPECIAL MEETING TIME 7:30pm eastkost, 4:30pm leftkost
Dec 21 - Holiday Stress by postmodernista, Darwinian Detritus, & mettle fatigue
January 4 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: bring a favorite bad joke!
February 1 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: bring a favorite bumpersticker!
February 8 - “Never Again: Coming to Grips with Life After Stroke - Year 1...and 23” by Steven Park
March 1 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: bring a favorite tshirt saying!
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See very end of diary for intro to free Medscape link use.
Other links are free as-is.
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‗‗‗‗‗‗‗From Cicero to Cohen: Developmental Theories of Aging, From Antiquity to the Present Gerontologist. 2014;54(1):30-39. ‗‗‗‗‗‗‗American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP) 2014 Annual Meeting March 14 - 17, 2014 ‗‗‗‗‗‗‗Center for Medicare-Medicaid Services May Soften Paperwork Requirements For Qualifying for Home Health Care ‗‗‗‗‗‗‗Doing It My Way: Motel Community as Independent Housing & Other Naturally Occurring Homing Communities ‗‗‗‗‗‗‗Elder Abuse: Research, Practice, and Health Policy The 2012 GSA Maxwell Pollack Award Lecture, pub'd in Gerontologist, 2014 ‗‗‗‗‗‗‗The Role of Violated Caregiver Preferences in Psychological Well-Being When Older Mothers Need Assistance Gerontologist. 2013;53(3):388-396. ‗‗‗‗‗‗‗Screening for Elder Mistreatment Among Older Adults Seeking Legal Assistance Services ‗‗‗‗‗‗‗The State of Senior Health: It Depends on Your State ‗‗‗‗‗‗‗ Systematic Review of the Effect of the Psychosocial Working Environment on Cognition and Dementia in an aging workforce. ‗‗‗‗‗‗‗Untapped Richness in Erik H. Erikson's Rootstock HQ Kivnick, PhD, LP; CK Wells, MSW, MPH Gerontologist. 2014 ‗‗‗‗‗‗‗We Will Be Different: Ageism & the Temporal Construction of Old Age abstract & intro + related citations at pubmed and full text at medscape ‗‗‗‗‗‗‗Will This Tech Tool Help Manage Older People's Health? Ask Dad ‗‗‗‗‗‗‗Guide materials for"Handling Someone Else's Money" as legal caregiver, conservator, fiduciary, etc. ‗‗‗‗‗‗‗Searching for lost/unclaimed money accounts & other assets ‗‗‗‗‗‗‗ Unclaimed money from bank failures, matured savings bonds, pensions, mortgage refunds, and more. ‗‗‗‗‗‗‗Are Your Parents' Finances in Order? What You Should Do ‗‗‗‗‗‗‗ PATH integrates a problem-solving approach with compensatory strategies, environmental adaptations, and caregiver participation to improve Older patients' Depression & Mild Cognitive Impairment ‗‗‗‗‗‗‗
MEDSCAPE is a mostly-plain-English news & research report service geared for healthcare professionals but FREE to all who register - you can choose "Consumer" on the PROFESSIONS list in the registration process that starts when you first click on a Medscape link.
Picking multiple topics for email notification may flood your inbox, since a tremendous number of medical journals worldwide contribute articles to Medscape, so it's a good idea to start with few or just one notification topic, and see how it goes (or none, if you prefer access without emails).
Many Medscape articles are commentable - if you use a screen-name for privacy, it's worth devising one that won't undermine your own comments' impact.
Articles with videos of speakers provide a transcript below the vid window. Click sound off if you'd rather just read. Some articles are slideshows or quizes with accompanying text.
Keep in mind that the competitive nature of publishing can skew writing to suggest certainties not fully supported by findings, and there are always the basics to watch out for, such as, "Many Studies Have 'Elementary Statistical Errors'" and It Ain't Necessarily So: Why Much of the Medical Literature Is Wrong and Data Re-analysis Changes 35% of Trial Conclusions. Medical science, like every realm of human endeavor, is a work in progress. Read critically for best results.
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