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What Does Ozempic Do?
So many people these days seem to be obsessed with Ozempic. I watched my mom suffer from uncontrolled diabetes, and she could have benefitted from this medication as it is and was initially intended for people with diabetes. Ozempic is designed to, along with diet and exercise, improve blood sugar levels in adults with type […]
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What is Knee Manipulation Under Anesthesia?
For several years, I have worked through a multitude of physical therapy sessions. I have done so because I am a person who has suffered many injuries. Injuries that are a direct result of playing sports and being physically active for well into my forties – without addressing my injuries right away in an effort […]
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Enrichment
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How to Take Control of Your Own Health
As many of us have learned firsthand in recent years, the number one way to take control of your health is to be one’s own advocate. We must do the necessary research and ask all the questions that are in our wheelhouse to control and handle when it comes to managing our health. Second, only […]
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Pain Management
Sciatica Desk Job
From personal experience, I can tell you as a writer with a desk job, and especially today, sciatica pain during my workday is extremely difficult to manage. Not only that, but it is becoming ever more challenging to drive, too. Distances longer than ten minutes without a break are excruciating to bear. Although I will […]
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Weather
How to Stay Cool and Hydrated in the Heat
High temperatures kill hundreds of people every year, especially seniors and those with compromised health conditions. With more than seven hundred people dying from extreme heat every year, had they been armed with the correct facts on how to stay cool and hydrated in the heat – these tragedies could have been prevented. It is […]
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Psychology sociology
Can Back Pain Be Psychological?
When my pain level is at a constant eight or ten, all day, every day, yes, it most certainly affects me psychologically. So much so that I am unable to get a good night’s rest because I toss and turn all night. Not getting a healthy amount of sleep affects my mood, how I feel […]
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Family
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How to Reduce Social Isolation in Elderly
It is so sad for me to see people feel or be lonely. It hurts my heart, and I feel compelled to do something. To help in some way. Especially for elderly folks. I lost my dear grandmother at the young age of sixty, and my grandfather just kind of fell into depression after that, […]
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Holiday Blues
Lately, I have seen messaging around the thought that not everyone is in a celebratory mood during the winter holiday season. For many of us, the holiday sadness is challenging to cope with when, everywhere I look, people sing about how this is “the most wonderful time of the year.” Add a divorce into the […]
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Financial Planning
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Does the State of Michigan Pay for Caregivers?
- October 12, 2023
- Administration on Aging
- business bankruptcy
- Disaster recovery help for the elderly and disabled
- Does the State of Michigan Pay for Caregivers?
- finances suffered
- financial assistance
- home health professionals
- home health support
- Home help care services
- Home help program
- in home health
- National Institute on Aging
- Older Americans Act of 1965
- personal finances
- State of Michigan benefits
- The Administration for Community Living
- U.S Department of Health and Human Services
- What is home help program in Michigan?
When I think about whether caregivers must sacrifice financially to care for a loved one or not, I relate to the example of when my mom was disabled at only fifty-six years old. As a direct result of her diabetes, she had retinopathy, which caused a loss of vision and, thus, a loss of her […]
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Psychology sociology
Chronic Pelvic Pain Treatment
When someone is suffering from chronic pelvic pain, sometimes they feel as though they would be willing to try anything to relieve the constant agony and disruption to their lives. And sometimes, when people are pushed to the point of resignation, they end up relieving the pain but wind up addicted to opiate painkillers. So, […]
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