Elder Care News & Resources
Elder Care Links
Useful Information on Elder Care Elder Care Links page at the National Institute on Aging
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Breastfeeding
Useful Information on Breastfeeding La Leche League International's mission is to help mothers worldwide to breastfeed through mother-to-mother support, encouragement, information, and education, and to promote...
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Postpartum Depression, also called postnatal depression (PPD), is a form of clinical depression which can affect women, and less frequently men, after childbirth. Studies report prevalence rates among women from 5% to 25%, but...
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Respite Care
Useful Information for Respite Care Caregivers Stress Fact Sheet from Womenshealth.gov
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Useful Information for Caregivers Caregivers Page on Cancer.gov Caregiving & the Flu Season from Flu.gov Caregivers...
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Parkinson’s Disease
Parkinson's disease (also known as Parkinson disease, Parkinson's, idiopathic parkinsonism, primary parkinsonism, PD, or paralysis agitans) is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous...
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Diabetes mellitus, often simply referred to as diabetes, is a group of metabolic diseases in which a person has high blood sugar, either because the body does not produce enough insulin,...
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Dementia (taken from Latin, originally meaning "madness", from de- "without" + ment, the root of mens "mind") is a serious loss of cognitive ability in a previously unimpaired person,...
Read More ...Alzheimer’s Disease
Alzheimer's disease (AD), also called Alzheimer disease, senile dementia of the Alzheimer type, primary degenerative dementia of the Alzheimer's type, or simply Alzheimer's, is the most...
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