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WhereSafe WhereSafe is a rechargeable mini tracker that’s a GPS solution for mobility scooters, walkers, wheelchairs, and transport chairs. The tracker sends live location and instant notifications via text message or email to caregivers or family members.  wheresafe.com
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Your pharmacist can help

You can depend on your pharmacist and their team for a range of supportive services. Your pharmacy has become more than a place to pick up your prescriptions; the pharmacy team can help you navigate many important aspects of the care experience. Consider the follow: • Ask about medication options. • Discuss how to streamline […]
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Editor’s Ted Talk Choice

TED TALK Lisa Genova: How your memory works—and why forgetting is totally OK Have you ever misplaced something you were just holding? Completely blanked on a famous actor’s name? Walked into a room and immediately forgot why? Neuroscientist Lisa Genova digs into two types of memory failures we regularly experience.
Caregiving

Your Bonus Feedback

Canada Cares I was pleased to see you recognizing caregivers in the Canada Cares portion of your recent  publications. There have been so many helpful people in my own life and I wish I could take the time to recognize and thank them all. Miya Campbell, Irma, AB Editor’s message: Not enough recognition goes out […]
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Bonus Editor’s Choice

It Didn’t Start with You By Mark Wolynn Depression. Anxiety. Chronic Pain. Phobias. Obsessive thoughts. The evidence is compelling: the roots of these difficulties may not reside in our immediate life experience or in chemical imbalances in our brains—but in the lives of our parents, grandparents, and even great-grandparents. Yes, traumatic experience can be passed […]
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Tips to make caregiving a little bit easier To improve your caregiving stamina you’ll need to find ways to build both you physical and emotional health so that you can make things happen in the best way possible. Think positive. Never underestimate the power of a positive outlook. You’ll find that the determination to triumph […]
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Bonus Editor’s Ted Talk Choice

How to live to be 100+ By Dan Buttoner To find the path to long life and health, Dan Buettner and team study the world’s “Blue Zones,” communities whose elders live with vim and vigor to record-setting age. In his talk, he shares the 9 common diet and lifestyle habits that keep them spry past […]
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Texting tribulations?

Try voice to text. It’s wonderful! Talk and words appear on the little screen My feet are planted firmly in the 20th century, where I’ve spent most of my life. Still, the technology available today is astounding, and I take advantage of it where I can. But sometimes it defeats me. Let me backtrack a bit. […]
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Zestful Aging

Nicole Christina, a psychotherapist of 30 years, interviews a wide variety of influential guests about how they are creating their legacies—a crucial element in healthy aging. zestfulaging.com