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		<title>San Diego Hospice Offers Psychiatric Care To Ease Suffering via KPBS</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
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SAN DIEGO — Over the past few decades, hospice care has become a more common choice for people who have a terminal illness. These patients forgo life-prolonging treatments and instead get help to make their final days as comfortable and pain-free as possible.
The San Diego Hospice is the only one in the nation that has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>~Easing Alzheimer&#8217;s with Art~</title>
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(CNN) ~With crayons, brushes, an escape from Alzheimer&#8217;s~
 
 
 
 
 
 

By Faith H. Robinson, CNN

&#8211; Every Friday morning, students walk into an art class in Atlanta, Georgia. Some look dazed, uncertain in their environment, as if it&#8217;s vaguely familiar but they can&#8217;t fully recognize where they are &#8212; until they sit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working with Developmentally Disabled Adults- A perspective from the other side</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cedwards</dc:creator>
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What is a developmental disability? Prior to 2007 I didn&#8217;t know exactly what it meant.  According to California law, it is defined as mental retardation, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, autism, or other neurological disorders that require services similar to mental retardation. Developmental disabilities are further defined as having their origin in the developmental period, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Having Alzheimer&#8217;s doesn&#8217;t make you a vegetable</title>
		<link>http://caring-for-mom-and-dad.info/2010/04/22/having-alzheimers-doesnt-make-you-a-vegetable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rose Broyles</dc:creator>
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New research from the US suggests that emotions triggered by events can endure longer than factual recollection in patients with severe amnesia; the researchers hope their findings will increase understanding of Alzheimer’s and related diseases and also bring comfort to caregivers and families in the knowledge that their loved ones may continue to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dementia Expanding Worldwide at an Alarming Rate</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benny</dc:creator>
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by Benny Arce
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Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease International (ADI), headed by Dr. Daisy Acosta, released a World Alzheimer Report indicating that there are over 35 million dementia cases all over the world.
The latest figures are an update of a report by British researchers in 2005 where they estimated worldwide dementia at the time at 24 million. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nutrition for Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease Patients</title>
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		<dc:creator>benny</dc:creator>
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by Benny Arce
The care and management of patients afflicted with Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease (AD) is often a difficult task. This becomes more difficult as the disease progresses to its advanced stage. Yet right at the onset of AD until the end, it is necessary to provide patients with proper Alzheimer diet and nutrition to help [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gay Seniors Feeling Isolated</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 23:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rose Broyles</dc:creator>
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by Rose Broyles
All across the country debates about gays and gay marraige are raging in pop culture, law and politics. In my state of California, voters passed Prop 8 which kept the definition of marriage between a man and a woman. This has been a polarizing issue that has taken place here and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emotional Problems in Teens go Unnoticed</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rose Broyles</dc:creator>
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 When I was young, I had some anger issues and very low self esteem. I attended a Catholic school during my elementary and junior high school years and had a problem with authority. I got into some trouble with teachers and was placed on detention and suspended once at the end [...]]]></description>
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