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Health Resources for the Sandwich Generation and their Families

Missed medication and doctor appointments is a problem for many elderly. Sandwich Generation senior home care givers can be a big help preventing that.

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Pickleball looks like a great way for Sandwich Generation caregivers and grandparents to have fun, exercise, and burn off some caregiver stress.

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Are you having a hard time eating healthy and/or losing weight? I know I am. I’m trying to eat healthy foods and watch my calories (healthily) to drop the 10 pounds I gained back at Christmas. But I am also juggling schedules for several others besides myself so it makes it pretty tough at times. [...]

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Internet Explorer has a major security flaw. Enough of one that Microsoft came out today with an emergency fix, hopefully solving it. Better people than me have written all about this – the problem, the fix, and more. My favorite “Windows Gurus” at Windows Secrets have a complete article that is wonderful and full of [...]

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To those who got the email or the RSS feeds with the duplicates, I do apologize. I am not sure what caused them but have taken steps to, hopefully, keep it from happening in the future. Grandparents-LeeHansen has great list of links 4 Christmas & Advent Coloring pages – http://tinyurl.com/6ee2jw Frugal-Free Vintage Graphics incl. Christmas [...]

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Thanksgiving and Christmas and the days in between are often full of family get-togethers, reunions, and holiday parties. They are fun occasions full of laughter, joy, and sometimes even a bit of stress.  Our extended-family reunion was always a highlight of the year for me, until we moved too far away to attend. Now I [...]

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Andy Williams and the Osmonds, The King Family, and Dean Martin provided some of my favorite Christmas memories. Bing Crosby’s Christmas special was the BEST, especially when he sang the Drummer Boy with  David Bowie. I remember driving around looking at gorgeous Christmas lights, then running home to make the cocoa and settle around the [...]

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If I can choose my favorite place to sit at church or in school, it is the front. There are fewer distractions. If I were a child today, I might be called hyperactive or ADHD. My attention can easily be pulled away to a variety of more interesting things if I let it (and I [...]

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Too much to do, too little time! Ask most families who are right in the middle of the Sandwich Generation why they don’t exercise and that would probably be the number one answer. But studies have proven that regular exercise makes you feel better, stress less, and renew your energy. It can even slow down [...]

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Caregivers need to know that inflammatory breast cancer, often misdiagnosed as mastitis, is the most aggressive form of breast cancer. Early detection is vital.

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