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What some caregivers have learned caring for ill loved ones
Nearly one-quarter of all adults over the age of 45 in the United States will have given care to a loved one in need of help.
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How can you live well after being diagnosed with dementia?
“Once I came out of the darkness,” Bonnie Erickson says, she had one question: “Do I embrace this and live well with it, or do I let it consume me...
Nurturing your baby’s brain
In the first few years of life, a child’s brain is a living map, with more than 1 million new neural connections being formed every second. Imagine roads and highways...
Maria Shriver joins UCI MIND gala for Alzheimer’s cure
Maria Shriver, founder of The Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement (WAM), joined supporters of the University of California at Irvine’s Institute for Memory Impairments & Neurological Disorders–better known as UCI MIND–at its...
Miscarriage: Reality, grief and recovery
Miscarriage, early pregnancy loss — the terms fail to speak to all that has been carried and all that has been lost. While difficult and sensitive situations are often hard...
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At age 3, her son was articulate and friendly, and seemed more than ready for preschool. However, a few weeks after enrolling her son J. in a Montessori program, she...
Past your due date? Some ideas to get that baby moving.
The last few weeks of pregnancy may seem like an eternity. Your belly button is flat, you haven’t seen your toes in ages and those tiny T-shirts folded in the...
Did you know you can adopt an embryo?
When April Cannon and her husband, Ryan, lost their newborn, Annabelle, to the genetic disease spinal muscular atrophy in 2013, they felt they’d been plunged into an unknowable darkness. As...
Surviving baby’s first year
“Empower a woman having a baby and you’ve empowered her for the rest of her life,” says midwife Lisa Sherwood. With 35 years of experience as a labor and delivery...