A man with Alzheimer’s forgot he was married, and fell in love with his wife all over again
A bittersweet story about a man with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease and his wife.
They Didn’t Expect to Retire Early. The Pandemic Changed Their Plans.
“After years in which Americans worked later in life, the latest economic disruption has driven many out of the work force prematurely.”
The New York Times looks at “the millions of Americans who have decided to retire since the pandemic began, part of a surge in early exits from the work force. The trend has broad implications for the labor market and is a sign of how the pandemic has transformed the economic landscape.”
Sufferers of chronic pain have long been told it’s all in their head. We now know that’s wrong
For those of us with this problem, here’s some good news.
Increasingly though, experts are waking up to the idea that chronic pain can occur without any obvious physical injury, or in a completely separate area of the body from the original site of tissue damage. There’s also mounting evidence that seemingly very different pain conditions – chronic headaches, low back pain and jaw pain, say – may share common underlying mechanisms, and that once a person develops one chronic pain condition, they’re predisposed to develop others.
The neuroscience behind why your brain may need time to adjust to ‘un-social distancing’
Kareem Clark, Postdoctoral Associate in Neuroscience at Virginia Tech, looks at a big question for many as we begin to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic:
if the idea of making small talk at a crowded happy hour sounds terrifying to you, you’re not alone. Nearly half of Americans reported feeling uneasy about returning to in-person interaction regardless of vaccination status.
He explains that our brains need to reset our sense of “social homeostasis – the right balance of social connections.”
The pandemic wrought a new America
CNN finds that we are “heading into a best of times, worst of times summer as the longed-for promise of deliverance from Covid-19 is tempered by spasms of violent crime, economic false starts and unexpected obstacles on the road to freedom.”
© 2021 by Mary Daniels Brown
Retreading for Retirement 