Monday Micro-Blog at SandwichINK with links of interest to The Sandwich Generation, including caregivers, grandparents, the Baby Boomer Generation and more!
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Like Hello to all of you in the Sandwich Generation. It’s time, again, to check out the resources I discovered for you this week at Twitter. Some are dealing with caregiving, some with grandparenting, some with tech info, and some are just plain random. For instance, did you know Marinara simply means ‘sailors style?’ Spanish [...]
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Like Research is something I love and do well at. I inherited that love for learning from my mom and have passed it on to all my daughters. Now it comes back as a blessing to me even more, when they discover something useful to share with me, just as my mom and I have [...]
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Like Walking is excellent exercise for our elderly parents. If they are in reasonably good health, they can enjoy the fresh air and exercise whenever they want. When you can keep them company that’s great. Even when you can’t, it can still be a pleasure for them. However, occasionally an older person can become disoriented, [...]
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Like After doing some research, I discovered that November is not just Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month. It shares the billing with several other health and family issues. I decided to spotlight some of those that seemed most appropriate for us and include a link or two for each. NOVEMBER IS: National Adoption Awareness Month – [...]
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Like Got some great links for caregivers. Have fun doing some web-surfing with purpose. The Arthritis Foundation has ten excellent ways to protect your joints which is especially important for caregivers or their elderly relatives who have arthritis – http://www.arthritis.org/protect-your-joints.php Yummy – the Diabetic Gourmet Magazine has some tasty looking recipes along with valuable information [...]
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Like I subscribe to a lot of email newsletters covering a myriad of topics. Periodically, I plan to do articles with brief Synopses (Site Seeing, if you will) of some of them to pass on snippets of useful information along with their links so you can read the whole shebang if you are interested. [...]
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