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How is a Stroke Diagnosed and Treated?
Learn how doctors diagnos and treat a stroke.
Stroke and Seniors: What You Should Know
Nearly three-quarters of strokes occur in people over age 65. Stroke is the third-leading cause of death in the U.S.
Cancer and How it Metastasizes
When cancer cells spread and form a new tumor in a different organ, the new tumor is a metastatic tumor. The cells in the metastatic tumor come from the original tumor.
Neuropathy Poses a Risk to Diabetics
Neuropathy poses a risk to diabetics. Loss of sensation might cause injury or infection to go undiscovered until the problem is well advanced.
Dealing with the Daily Challenges of Parkinson's Disease
Learning how to continually adapt the home environment, and daily living processes that take into consideration a gradual decline in health and abilities should be the main focus of caregivers.
How Alzheimer’s Affects the Brain: A Primer for Caregivers
Alzheimer's Disease often has a predicable progression. Understanding the disease at every level can help caregivers.
How Can You Recognize the Stages of Alzheimer’s?
Caregivers of Alzheimer's patients often want to know what to expert. This articles on the stages of Alzheimer's can help.
Life After A Heart Attack
If your loved one has had a heart attack, it's essential to understand the medications and lifestyle changes necessary for successful recovery.
Dealing With Mood and Behavior Changes In Alzheimer's Patients
For many caregivers, sudden changes in mood and behavior are startling and disturbing. By improving our understanding of what may cause such mood swings and behavior problems, caregivers can learn how to not only tolerate some of these behaviors, but also head them off before they occur.
Caring for a Diabetic
Diabetes has the ability to change the lifestyle of both the caretaker and the person diagnosed, and many who find themselves in this position can easily be overwhelmed if not prepared.
The Stages of Parkinson's Disease
Symptoms associated with the various stages of Parkinson's Disease, known as Hoehn and Yahr Staging scale.
What Goes Wrong In Parkinson's Disease?
Parkinson's disease is a devastating and complex disease that interferes with movement more and more as time goes on. It also produces a wide range of other problems for patients.
What Other Diseases Resemble Parkinson's?
People with symptoms that resemble Parkinso's disease but that result from other causes are sometimes said to have "parkinsonism."
What is Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease?
Deep brain stimulation is a surgical procedure used to treat disabling neurological symptoms—most commonly the debilitating symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, such as tremor, rigidity, stiffness, slowed movement, and walking problems.
Providing a Safe Home Environment for Alzheimer's Patients
When caring for someone afflicted Alzheimer's disease in a home setting, caregivers must take a critical look at the living environment.
Living With an Arrhythmia
Most arrhythmias are harmless, but some can be serious or even life threatening. When the heart rate is too slow, too fast, or irregular, the heart may not be able to pump enough blood to the body.
The Difference Between Good Cholesterol and Bad Cholesterol
There are specific kinds of lipoproteins that contain cholesterol in your blood, and each affects your heart disease risk in a different way.
How to Lower Cholesterol
Four key steps will help you to lower blood cholesterol.
New Areas of Alzheimer's Research: How Our Brains Change as We Age
Researchers from the National Institute on Aging are undertaking clinical trials to learn whether treatments and drugs that appear promising in observational and animal studies actually are safe and effective in people.
Research: Immediate Treatment Helps Delay Glaucoma's Progression
Researchers have found that immediately treating people who have early stage glaucoma can delay progression of the disease.
Helping Your Loved One Live With Low Vision
If you’re caring for a family member with impaired vision due to glaucoma, there are many things you can do to help.
An Overview of Prostate Cancer
Prostate cancer is the second most common type of cancer among men in the U.S. Only skin cancer is more common. Out of every three men who are diagnosed with cancer each year, one is diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Research: Can Parkinson's Disease Be Cured?
Parkinson's research has advanced to the point that halting the progress, restoring lost function and even preventing the disease are all considered realistic goals. But we're not there yet.
An Overview of Diabetic Neuropathy
Diabetic Neuropathy is a peripheral nerve disorder caused by diabetes.
Diabetes and Skin Care
Diabetes can hurt skin in two ways: through fluid loss and nerve damage.
Diabetes and Foot Care
High blood glucose from diabetes causes two problems that can hurt feet: nerve damage and poor blood flow.
Diabetic Retinopathy Defined
Diabetic retinopathy is the most common diabetic eye disease and a leading cause of blindness in American adults.
Seven Principles to Control Diabetes
These principles will help you manage your loved one's diabetes.
An Overview of Heart Failure
Heart failure is caused by other diseases or conditions that damage the heart muscle. It is often caused by coronary artery disease, including heart attacks. Diabetes and high blood pressure also contribute to heart failure risk.
An Overview of Heart Attack
A heart attack occurs when blood flow to a section of heart muscle becomes blocked. If the blood flow isn't restored quickly, the heart muscle is damaged and begins to die.
If There is No Cure, How is Alzheimer's Disease Treated?
No treatment has been proven to stop Alzheimer's Disease, however people in early and middle stages can benefit from medication.
NIH-Funded Study: One in Seven Americans Age 71 and Older Has Some Type of Dementia
A new analysis suggests that about 3.4 million Americans age 71 and older—one in seven people in that age group—have dementia, and 2.4 million of them have Alzheimer’s disease (AD).
Alzheimer's Disease: Tips for Caregivers
Caring for a person with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) at home is a difficult task and can become overwhelming at times.
Alzheimer's Disease: How is it Diagnosed and Treated?
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia among older people. Although there is no treatment, some drugs may help keep symptoms from getting worse for a limited time.
An Overview of Cancer
Cancer is a term for diseases in which abnormal cells divide without control and can invade other tissues.
An Overview of Parkinson's Disease
Symptoms of Parkinson's Disease includes tremors or trembling in hands, arms, legs and face, as well as rigidity and stiffness of the limbs and trunk.
An Overview of Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis is a disease that thins and weakens the bones to the point that they become fragile and break easily.
An Overview of Heart Disease
Heart failure is a condition in which the heart can't pump enough blood throughout the body.
An Overview of Diabetes
Diabetes is a disorder of metabolism—the way our bodies use digested food for growth and energy.
An Overview of Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease causes sufferers to have trouble thinking and speaking clearly, remembering recent events, and learning new things. Over time, it becomes hard for them to handle everyday activities and take care of themselves.
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I am caring for my 81-year-old mother who lives with me. She is very controlling, wants to rule my life, and treats me like I’m still a teenager. Pointing this out to her doesn’t seem to do any good. What can I do?

You need the "Jacqueline Marcell emotional shield." Put it on every day, and then don't let anything she says bother you; all negativity has to bounce right off.

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