Archive for Health & Wellness
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New Year – Benefit from Volunteering
By Bob Morrison Development Director of Ridgecrest Village A quick look at Wikipedia.org offers a definition, “Volunteering is generally considered an altruistic activity, intended to promote good or improve human quality of life. People also volunteer for their own skill development, to mee...
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January is Glaucoma Awareness Month
By Nikhil Wagle Eye Surgeons Associates In the U.S., more than two million individuals are estimated to be living with glaucoma, and that number is expected to increase by 50 percent, to more than three million, by 2020. Glaucoma is an eye disease typically characterized by elevated pressure ...
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Cochlear Implants
By Dr. Molly Parker Audiologist Parker Audiology, PC Cochlear Implants (CIs) are often touted as the cure for deafness. This may be true, but success varies. Typically, I recommend an evaluation for a CI if word discrimination is very poor and the individual has significant hearing loss, 1) ...
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Happy New Year 2012
By Roger Brann Administrator Bettendorf Health Care It’s a New Year and a time when many of us make New Year’s resolutions to do something we haven’t been able to do in the past. It’s an election year, and for me, I get so tired of all the political commercials with the politicians ma...
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Strategies for Helping a Parent
By Dan Adams Lighthouse Homecare I recently came across this article on www.care.com. The headline was ‘Strategies to help a parent who refuses care.’ Your mother resists in-home helpers, insisting you can wait on her. Your frail father won't stop driving. Your aunt denies the need for...
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What is a ‘Good Driver?’
NEWS FOR YOU....from the Iowa D.O.T. By Debra Carney Driver License Supervisor, Office of Driver Services Davenport, Iowa How can you tell who is a good driver? Someone who has had no tickets or accidents? Or is that person lucky? Do you have friends or family members who consider themse...
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Ask the Audiologist – Can I Wear Only One Hearing Aid?
By Janet Liddicoat, Au.D., CCC-A Audiology Consultants, P.C. Can I Wear Only One Hearing Aid? When it comes to the question of whether or not you can wear only one hearing aid, ask yourself this question. Would you only get one lens for your pair of glasses if you had vision loss in both eye...
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An Apple a Day…
By Nikki Putnam R.D., L.D.N. Hy-Vee Registered Dietician (309) 292-7494 nputnam@hy-vee.com Kryptonite is to Superman as apples are to doctors’ offices. How does an apple a day keep the doctor away? …keeps heart disease away. Last year, the Iowa Women’s Health Study reported tha...
