Help For Long Term Care?
Saving for care in our old age usually falls by the wayside in favor of the things we want to pay for now. A relatively little known provision in some health care bills allows people to voluntary contribute to a national fund that would pay at least $50 a day for at home nursing care for people who are disabled.
Retiring Right Freeway Guide
A personal change expert offers an exceptional guide to navigating a major life transition–retirement. He provides an upbeat listening experience–with the help of uncredited voice pros who ask questions and give headlines and quotes. Selman’s clear, energetic voice gives the program real motivational juice. Offering more than financial advice, he says that retirement is both an end and a beginning and that paying attention to the psychological and social parts of the change will make it more satisfying. Unrealized work ambitions, regrets, resentments, and unhappy marriages all can keep us from retiring peacefully if we don’t address these issues. Selman’s diagnostic questions and detailed help in creating a retirement road map make this one of the most useful guides ever in this brief format. Listen to a sample from the book . . .
Bipolar Disorder: Nutrition As Medicine
Treating bipolar disorder with prescription medications may be a necessary first step to get the symptoms of this disease under control. However, the drugs used for this health problem are indeed strong. For that reason, many people search for gentler, more natural approaches to tempering the episodes to provide some type of relief.
A New Way To Look At Alzheimers
A renowned Alzheimer’s researcher has a new way of framing the disorder not just as a single disease, but the result of a number of things that happen as the brain ages.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Originally chronicled as a condition affecting Vietnam veterans, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a relative newcomer to the field of mental health. Nowadays, PTSD is commonly used to describe a set of symptoms for survivors of terrorist attacks, plane, rail, or car crashes, as well as victims of rape, sexual assault or other forms of trauma. It has also been applied to emergency service workers as well as present-day returning veterans of Middle East combat.
