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The Complicated Prostate: Cancer Is a Concern but There’s More to Consider

Most younger men don’t spend a lot of time considering the health of their prostate. However, around the age of 50, they’ll likely find...

Dear Carol: My mom is reasonably healthy but she’s sedentary. It frustrates me that she ignores the fact that a bad fall could change...

Although we may not think about it in these terms very often, a person’s dignity and identity are often tied to their independence. As...

If I’d had paid family leave during my caregiving years, my life and the lives of my loved ones would have been quite different....

Many caregivers watch their loved ones endure a long, slow decline that will eventually end in death. As they age, we grieve every mental...

While death rarely brings pleasant feelings, from time to time we’ll see a story about death go viral on the Internet because it touches...

When I was a teenager, my parents had a new home specifically built with separate quarters so my grandmother could live with us and...

Dear Carol: I’m worried about my 70-year-old dad who is constantly responding to his 93-year-old mother’s calls for help. I keep telling him that...

During the years I cared for multiple elders, I grew to dread the ringing of the telephone. It seemed most calls meant emergencies. One...

We’ve all heard that we must first learn to love ourselves before we can love others. Yet, many of us have grown up with...