Archive for Health & Wellness
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Flu and Older Adults
From Milestones Agency on Aging The best way to protect against the flu and its potentially serious complications is with an annual flu vaccine. Flu vaccination has many benefits. It has been shown to reduce the risk of getting sick with the flu and to lessen the likelihood of severe outcomes, wh...
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Dietitian Tips for Gluten-Free Entertaining this Holiday Season
By Hannah Anderson MA, RDN, LDN, CLS Hy-Vee Registered Dietician (515) 695-3602 hannah.anderson1@hy-vee.com The holidays are a time to gather, celebrate, and enjoy delicious meals with loved ones. However, for those with celiac disease or gluten sensitivity, navigating holiday gatherings ...
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PUBLISHER’S CORNER
November Thoughts By Eloise Graham During a previous presidential election year, I wrote an article titled “Voting, Veterans and Vittles.” Well, it's November again. It's another presidential election again. Voting, veterans and vittles come to mind again. Voting Let’s start with voting! V...
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10 Tips for Family Caregivers: Achieving Balance in Life
From the National Family Caregivers Association and Milestones Area Agency on Aging As a family caregiver, your health and well-being is important. But how can you find ways to care for yourself and juggle your role as a caregiver? These tips offer you can use on daily basis to make your tasks ea...
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A Pause for Poetry
By Gary Heath Poet in Residence for 50+ Lifestyles. Beacon Light Ready to reveal, the light concealing, Set to illuminate true, steadfast feeling. The fraught riotous context of the Earth, So complicates our transit from birth. Impedimenta dark upon the riven t...
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Your Advocacy Connection
We Solve Long Term Care Problems Thankfulness Is in Your Perspective By Gail Glockhoff-Long GolderCare Solutions Benefits Advocate November is a time when we start cocooning for winter and think back on the blessings of the past year. The beauty of the fall trees. My summer zinnia garden. T...
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Ask the Audiologist
What are some safe ways to deal with earwax? By Alexandra Carmichael, Au.D. Audiology Consultants, P.C. Earwax, also known as cerumen, is naturally produced in the ear canal. A certain amount of earwax is healthy and plays a very important role in protecting the ear canal from dust, bacteria, and...
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The Cape Cod of the Midwest, Part 1
By Mary Schricker Gemberling “It’s the first day of autumn! A time of hot chocolatey mornings and tasty marshmallow evenings, and best of all leaping into leaves!.......Winnie the Pooh Those of you who follow my articles know that every fall since we met, Gary and I take a leaf peeping trip ...
