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HEALTHY LIFESTYLE? A REVIEW

October 3, 2024 by David Gillaspie

A healthy lifestyle doesn’t start after you recover from a dreaded disease. Some people take illness as a reminder to step up their health routine, some ignore the whole thing. Which one is the right response? Both work, just one better than the other. But there’s that other part.

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DOWNSIZING ADVANTAGE? NO MORE HAUNTED HOUSE

August 16, 2021 by David Gillaspie

The downsizing advantage hardly mentioned is losing a sense of place. And it’s a good thing. Move from the house you raised a family in and the reminders stay. The kids’ rooms, the family room, the office room, the dining room, the kitchen, and everything else, stays. The garage, storage spaces, window covering, decks? They […]

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PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS, PT3: MILLENNIAL ILLNESS

May 7, 2017 by David Gillaspie

This graph shows the age of BoomerPDX readers. From a boomer blogger to millennials, I’m glad you read this blog. Not all news is good, but good ideas help open the right doors. I’m as surprised as anyone to see who shows up here, and millennials lead the pack according to Google Analytics. And they […]

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GIVING CAREGIVING SHOWS EXTRA LIFE

January 22, 2017 by David Gillaspie

The biggest booster from giving caregiving? Adapted for Parkinson’s, it becomes “Hate the disease, love the relationships it builds.” It works for most every disease at every age. The idea of extra life works for all, too. Doctors treating Parkinson’s are the key relationship, but they need equally strong links to those in their patients’ lives. One link of […]

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THE CARE AGE SANDWICH GENERATION

August 4, 2016 by David Gillaspie

If elderly people depend on you, you’re in the Care Age. Ages come in different names defined by the dominant materials like the Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age. Epochs and eras all have names. If you find artifacts made in America before the explorers got here, they’re called Pre-contact, as if everything after early […]

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CARE COACHING TIPS

July 23, 2015 by David Gillaspie

When It Comes Down To Just You, Care Coaching Makes A Winner. Have you visited a loved one in a nursing home and looked around? What did you see going on in there? How do so many people arrive at this particular destination? Most people have a patented answer: “People need the best care available […]

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