A woman is fully menopausal one year or 365 days after her last menstrual period, which means that a woman is both menopausal and post-menopausal on the same day. A woman is “post menopausal” until she dies, although it certainly isn’t required that you wear a scarlet letter on your jacket saying so. This is [...]
Friday, November 18, 2011
What is the expression? Forty is the new thirty? Alternatively, fifty is the new forty? Granted, most fifty-year-old women do not look like their mothers or grandmothers did at the same age. That is courtesy of cosmetics, access to hairdressers and hair colorists, better clothing choices and Sshhh, Botox and plastic surgery, but the truth [...]
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
By Dr. Eva Mor My aunt was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s some years ago. It did not come as a shock to us, but we tried to fool ourselves for quite a few years before the diagnosis came. She is a Holocaust survivor, and like my parents, lived through a hellish nightmare during World War [...]
Sunday, October 2, 2011
By Dr. Eva Mor Mrs. T. was not a client of our agency; she was a good friend of my parents. She was a widow, and quite independent, and in fairly good health up to the age of 83. I had been seeing her on all family gatherings, such as holiday dinners, birthdays, and [...]
Monday, August 1, 2011
By Dr. Eva Mor This story still breaks my heart every time I think about it. It happened to friends of mine, two hard working people, about twenty five years ago. Both held what we would consider good jobs with good pay and very generous benefits, including excellent medical coverage provided by the employer. [...]
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
By Dr. Eva Mor Mr. B. was an elderly gentleman who called our agency asking us to help him out five hours a day, seven days a week – just with house chores, shopping, food preparation, and escorting him to doctor visits. He was independently handling his relationship with doctors, as well as his medication administration. When [...]
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
By Eva Mor, PhD A few days ago I visited Orlando, Florida. After fulfilling my professional obligations, we looked around for something to do and discovered that the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra was having a concert with an unusual program—Paul McCartney: A Symphonic Tribute. The twist was that McCartney’s songs were performed in a classical style [...]
Thursday, March 31, 2011
By Eva Mor, PhD My friend’s mother, a very social and highly functioning lady, fell in her house, and remained on the floor for two hours, until my friend reached her home, after being unable to reach her mother by phone. This made my friend realize that some changes need to be made. In [...]
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
By Dr. Eva Mor “Making the Golden Years Golden” Author. Several months ago, I was interviewed for a magazine article on the subject of seniors and driving and an uncomfortable question came up. “When should we take away our aging parents’ driving license,” I was asked. I was taken aback by the question, because I never [...]
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
By Dr. Eva Mor Author –“Making the Golden Years Golden” For some time now many Americans have been driven by the high cost of medical insurance and deficiencies in coverage to seek medical treatment abroad, in countries such as Thailand, India, Costa Rica, Brazil, South Africa, Romania, Hungary and other eastern European countries. More than [...]
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