Medicare Allows More Benefits for Chronically Ill, Aiming to Improve Care for Millions
We can all use some good news in this realm.
BAN PLASTIC SURGERY AND GROW OLD GRACEFULLY
Getting cosmetic surgery to look younger says that “looks matter most.” So let’s flip the script. Let’s embrace our wrinkles, like we embrace life stories, and all look older together.
Loneliness Can Be Deadly for Elders; Friends Are the Antidote
Years’ and years’ worth of data have consistently demonstrated a direct correlation between social isolation and a decrease in both physical and mental health, especially in older adults.
With strong evidence that friendship does, indeed, help save lives and promote health, social workers and researchers wish we could pay more attention to its central role. Activity directors, senior center staff members and family caregivers: Are there better ways to help elders stay in touch with the friends they care about, or meet new ones? We’re all willing to drive relatives to doctors’ appointments; driving them to spend time with friends may matter as much.
The Civility Debate Has Reached Peak Stupidity
The depth to which the level of political and social discourse has sunk in the U.S. has prompted both sides to call for a return to civility. Here’s one writer’s opinion on the topic.
Five Features of Better Arguments
Here are some suggestions on how to deal with the problem of civility in public discourse.
A former Clinton administration official studied how to facilitate more constructive arguments among Americans. These are his conclusions.
The Neuroscience of Pain
For scientists, pain has long presented an intractable problem: it is a physiological process, just like breathing or digestion, and yet it is inherently, stubbornly subjective—only you feel your pain. It is also a notoriously hard experience to convey accurately to others.
A report on scientists’ efforts to find “ways to capture the experience [of pain] in quantifiable, objective data.”
© 2018 by Mary Daniels Brown
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