DYING, ILLNESS, AND AGING WITH GRACE

 
• Covid-19 (Coronavirus pandemic, 2020)
• You, your body, and your health
• Health care, medicine, and the health care system
• How we die (managing and honoring the end of life)
• Life, home, and estate management
• Justice and injustice
• Telling our life stories
• Wisdom and entertainment

Covid-19 (Coronavirus pandemic, 2020)

• COVID-19: politics and the stock market vs. science and survival (the good, the bad, and the ugly)
• Coronavirus: How to minimize your risks (the practical stuff)
• Recommended reading about pandemics (novels and nonfiction books and articles)
• Lost to the coronavirus pandemic
• On keeping a diary or journal of the pandemic
• Poems for the Pandemic
• 55+ things to do (listen, watch, read, share, do) during the pandemic
• How prepared are you for disaster?

You, your body, and your health

• Top sites for health news and advice
• Medical links for patients, families, and caregivers
• Where journalists get their medical news and information (Writers and Editors site)
• Do you trust your doctor? How can you protect yourself?
• Ratings for hospitals, doctors, surgeons, home health agencies, nursing homes
• You, drug-resistant superbugs, and what's for dinner?
• The flu: what you need to know
• Overcoming flu vaccine hesitancy: The caregiver's resource sheet
• We are what we eat? Read this, get healthy, feel better! (Part 1 of 2). See also Part 2 (with links to more good articles).
• Healthy food that isn't yucky
• Home remedies for relieving sciatica pain
• The truth (and controversy) about chronic (late-stage) Lyme disease
• Resources for finding service dogs, therapy dogs, and other types of assistance dogs

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Health care, medicine, and the health care system

• Why U.S. medical costs are so high -- and where the system needs fixing
• Taking the mystery out of health care prices
• Drugs, Big Pharma, conflicts of interest, and why U.S. patients pay too much for medication
• Ratings for hospitals, doctors, surgeons, home health agencies, nursing homes
• Doctors rebel against a re-certification test that costs $23,600 per doctor
• The anatomy of medical error Human factor scientists call skill-based errors slips and rule-based and knowledge-based errors mistakes. See also an Update on medical errors
• Exposing abuse and neglect in a chain of brain injury rehab centers
• Lead wars and the health of children
• Organizations serious about improving U.S. health care
• Talking points about the Affordable Care Act
• The NIH Clinical Center: A national healthcare treasure
• Nine great TED talks on improving health care

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How we die (managing and honoring the end of life)

• Preventing fraud, elder abuse, and guardianship problems
• Three cases for better management of dying
• Autopsies: when and why and how
• Farewell to T.L Hawkins, part 1 (October 2014)

and one of his beautiful photos of the Grand Canyon
• Stop All the Clocks (song based on the W.H Auden song)

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Life, home, and estate management

• Estate planning and estate and inheritance taxes: what you need to know
• When living wills are not enough (Norman Bauman)
• End-of-life planning and decision-making. Have "The Conversation"
• When you die, who owns your online legacy?
• Is scanning family photos part of your in-case-of-fire plan?
• Decluttering advice from some 'experts'
• 100 tips on how to improve your life, home, and credit cards

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Justice and injustice

• Notes on True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality
• Books about wrongful conviction and related issues

Telling our life stories

• Helen Jean Medakovich Sarchielli(1939-2000)
• Sharing life stories with your family
• Why I love teaching Guided Autobiography (by Lisa Smith-Youngs)
• Why we love Guided Autobiography (GAB) groups (a group approach to memoir writing)
• My Mother, The Lion (Ruth Little on her aging mother and Elders' Eden)
• Writing personal stories about war
• Military records, history, and archives
• How storytelling is changing the way doctors treat illness (check out narrative medicine)
• Is scanning family photos part of your in-case-of-fire plan?
• Baby Bigfoot on Ice (the power of a video story)

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Wisdom and entertainment

• Putting on the Ritz, Moscow flash mob-style
• Coach John Wooden on true success
• Age-activated attention deficit disorder (amusing video)

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