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Meditate On This

Posted by Eve Lees
|Date: June 01, 2019
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Meditate On This

Meditation is exercise for the brain. Try to meditate daily, even if it’s just for 10 to 15 minutes. Medi ...

Meditation is exercise for the brain. Try to meditate daily, even if it’s just for 10 to 15 minutes. Mediation can also train you to control your thoughts, especially stopping the constant mind-chatte ...

June 01, 2019
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Acknowledging Family Caregivers

Posted by Wendy Johnstone
|Date: May 01, 2019
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Acknowledging Family Caregivers

May brings spring flowers. It’s also a time to acknowledge family caregivers and the vital role they play ...

May brings spring flowers. It’s also a time to acknowledge family caregivers and the vital role they play in our healthcare system and in the lives of their family and friends. While caregiving is uni ...

May 01, 2019
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Yes, We Can Die Better – Planning is the Key!

Posted by Memorial Society of BC
|Date: April 11, 2019
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Yes, We Can Die Better – Planning is the Key!

Our Canadian culture’s fear of death truly handicaps a family’s ability to plan well and prepare for end ...

Our Canadian culture’s fear of death truly handicaps a family’s ability to plan well and prepare for end of life. Less than half of our population has a will, never mind all the other important paperw ...

April 11, 2019
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Caregiver Support for Dementia

Posted by Wendy Johnstone
|Date: January 01, 2019
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Caregiver Support for Dementia

Dementia is a broad term to describe a group of signs and symptoms seen in a variety of diseases affectin ...

Dementia is a broad term to describe a group of signs and symptoms seen in a variety of diseases affecting the brain, such as Alzheimer’s Disease. Dementia affects less than three per cent of all Brit ...

January 01, 2019
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Music, Music, Music

Posted by Pat Nichol
|Date: January 01, 2019
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Music, Music, Music

What does music do for you? To you? Do you find yourself bouncing in your seat, or feel your feet twitchi ...

What does music do for you? To you? Do you find yourself bouncing in your seat, or feel your feet twitching to get up to dance when you hear some fun, funky jazz? Are there pieces of music that make y ...

January 01, 2019
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Divining Happiness

Posted by J. Kathleen Thompson
|Date: October 01, 2018
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Divining Happiness

Happiness is a perennial hot topic for, as it turns out, it is not as simple as it sounds. Like “the art ...

Happiness is a perennial hot topic for, as it turns out, it is not as simple as it sounds. Like “the art of living” or “the meaning of life,” it is fiendishly difficult to define, let alone achieve, a ...

October 01, 2018
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Butterfly Movement Brings New Life to Patients with Dementia

Posted by Denise Ravary
|Date: July 31, 2018
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Butterfly Movement Brings New Life to Patients with Dementia

It is 2018 and a long-term care home in Calgary has taken on a radical new way of housing people with dem ...

It is 2018 and a long-term care home in Calgary has taken on a radical new way of housing people with dementia. This home embraces the out-of-date with the new and the meaningful. Residents here feel ...

July 31, 2018
| by Denise Ravary

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Positive Thinking Calms the Emotional Brain

Posted by Eve Lees
|Date: February 01, 2014
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Positive Thinking Calms the Emotional Brain

Much of the criticism about positive thinking is the accusation that “looking through rose-coloured glass ...

Much of the criticism about positive thinking is the accusation that “looking through rose-coloured glasses” is an unhealthy form of denial. But thinking positively does not mean pretending bad things ...

February 01, 2014
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Charge Your Emotional Battery

Posted by Barbara Risto
|Date: January 19, 2012
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Charge Your Emotional Battery

Today we make more decisions in 10 minutes, consciously or subconsciously, than our grandparents probably ...

Today we make more decisions in 10 minutes, consciously or subconsciously, than our grandparents probably made in a day. My grandfather would take half a day to drive the horse-drawn wagon to town. On ...

January 19, 2012
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