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Coping
With Caregiving
Email
Host: Jacqueline
Marcell
The Author
of Elder Rage
Segment 1
Show Date: 07/10/04
Tighe Blazier is General Manager of Publications of Intellisphere, LLC, publishing the "MD Net Guide" journal series for physicians, a collection of ten specialty journals that reaches 200,000 physicians. Intellisphere also publishes “Family Medicine Net Guide” a consumer medical journal and website providing information to patients, and helps physicians to prescribe doctor-reviewed information from original articles focusing on the most prevalent health problems affecting Americans.
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Show Date: 07/10/04
John Stickler, together with his wife of 40 years, Korea-born fine artist Soma Han, have published a picture book, primarily for children, entitled "Land of Morning Calm: Korean Culture Then and Now." Published by Shen’s Books in California, it is the latest best-seller from Shen’s extensive catalog of ethnic diversity titles.
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Show Date:
07/10/04
Dr. Karen Karle, founder and president of Dementia Caregiver Resources, Inc., also hosts caregiver cruises. She is a facilitator, counselor, teacher, clinician, author and a certified Alzheimer’s trainer for the Florida Department of Elder Affairs. Her monthly column “The Caregiver’s Path” reaches a circulation of over 450,000 in 13 counties. She works with the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America and is a past Volunteer of the Year through the Alzheimer’s Association. She has been on the path of caregiving since 1959.
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Show Date: 07/10/04 Jim Miller is the creator of Savvy Senior, a syndicated question-and-answer information column for older American that is published in more than 400 newspapers and magazines nationwide. Jim is the author of "The Savvy Senior", a full-service resource book for boomers and seniors. Jim is also a regular contributor to the NBC Today show "Forever Young" series, and the host of a national television special created for public television, "The Savvy Senior Special." |
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5 Dr. Dale Atkins is a psychologist in New York City working with families, couples and individuals, many of whom have chronic illnesses. She has authored several books, including "Sisters" and "From the Heart". Dr. Atkins consults and leads seminars in the fields of family relationships, parenting, wellness, aging, and stress management. A guest expert on the "Today" show, she has discussed "How to Speak to Someone who is Ill” and "Generations Living Together", as well as her new book, "I'm OK, You're My Parents". |
Show Date: 07/10/04
Don Larsen is a retired school principal in his late seventies. After celebrating their fifty-fourth anniversary his wife’s health broke and Don had to learn caregiving. After a number of trips to the emergency room and hospital stays, the couple was told in a hospital room on Christmas day that she needed a rest home and his health was no longer up to caregiving. Don decided to put his feelings and notes into a book, "I've Never Been an old Man", to help people understand the problems of aging and eldercare.