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Health/wellness events
Upcoming Alzheimer's Lunch and Learn: noon to 1 p.m. Oct. 28; The Cloisters, 400 E. Howry Ave., DeLand; free; call to register, 877-307-8839. Brain Aneurysm Support Group: 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Dec. 2; Florida Hospital Orlando, 601 East Rollins St.,...Tags: Social Issues, Diseases, Minority Groups, Health, Diabetes
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Urge lawmakers not end MAP Waiver
Facing the worst budget crisis in modern history, Florida's lawmakers are looking to cut costs. Even with their backs against the wall, our legislators shouldn't turn their backs on the patients and caregivers served through the Medicaid Alzheimer's...Tags: Social Issues, Corporate Crime, Corruption, Family, Health
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Milica V. Pellington
Milica V. "Micki" Pellington, a homemaker who nursed her husband, Colts linebacker Bill Pellington, after his diagnosis with Alzheimer's disease, died of heart failure Monday at the Keswick Multi-Care Center. The Mercy Ridge resident was 82.
Born...Tags: NFL, Social Issues, Dining and Drinking, Diseases, Christianity
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Playing Along With the Mozart Effect
Tribune NewspapersFive months after we are conceived, music begins to capture our attention and wire our brains for a lifetime of aural experience. At the other end of life, musical memories can be imprinted on the brain so indelibly that they can be retrieved, perfectly...Tags: Science and Technology, Adults, Education, Music Theater, Music
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Coffee in moderation may offer health benefits
DEAR MAYO CLINIC: What are the current thoughts on coffee as to how it affects one's health, good or bad? ANSWER: Over the past several years, research has busted some health myths about coffee. It doesn't contribute to heart attacks, cancer or reduced...Tags: Heart Attack, Diseases, Parkinson's Disease, Health, Liver
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Tears for More Than Fears
Special to The TimesI cry. At mushy Hallmark commercials in which the son finally gets home on Christmas Eve. At weddings because everybody's so happy. At funerals because everybody's so sad. Even watching the Olympics, when I bond with the skaters who get teary because...Tags: Stanford University, Science and Technology, Brain, Multiple Sclerosis, Health
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Testing for Genetic Link to Alzheimers
Los Angeles TimesLast year, a study in the New England Journal of Medicine asked whether the children of Alzheimer's patients should find out whether they were genetically predisposed to the same fate. Defying conventional wisdom, the researchers concluded that people who...Tags: New York University, Los Angeles Times, Health, Anxiety, Education
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120,000 Tennesseans have Alzheimer's Disease, 140,000 by 2025
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Alzheimer's Association says 120,000 persons have the disease in Tennessee and the figure is projected to be 140,000 by 2025. Marcia Massengill, CEO of the Alzheimer's Association Mid South chapter, said it's a major...Tags: Diseases, Health, Tennessee
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Legal and Financial Planning for those with Alzheimer's
Legal and financial planning for the future, for those with loved ones suffering from Alzheimer's Disease. Learn more at the Indianapolis Senior CenterTags: Basketball, Financial Planning, Finance
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Polk sheriff urges residents to join search for missing elderly man
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd urged residents today to help search for an 85-year-old man who has been missing since Monday. Thomas Morgan, who suffers from Alzheimer's, walked away from his home on Country Meadow Drive in Lakeland at about 3:30 p.m....Tags: Grady Judd
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Drag queen loses nursing job over 34-year-old arrest
In South Florida's gay community, Ray Fetcho is known as drag queen "Tiny Tina."
To the families of elderly dementia patients, he's a godsend, a compassionate caregiver.
But now Fetcho is out of a job and his 35-year nursing career is in jeopardy, all...Tags: Social Issues, Crimes, Bank Robbery, Dining and Drinking, Minority Groups
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Rev. Virginia Leitzel
The Rev. Virginia H. Leitzel, a retired Baltimore County school teacher who later became an ordained Methodist minister, died Friday from complications of Alzheimer's disease at Gilchrist Hospice Care. She was 84.
Virginia Doris Mae Hines was born at the...Tags: Methodist, Reisterstown, Christianity, Retirement, Health
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