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Live Your Best Life: Bucket Lists and New Year’s Resolutions
New Year’s Resolutions, Bucket Lists, and Other Ways to Live Your Best Life by Dr. Len Kayes, guest writer in MAINE SENIORS Magazine. The 2007 film The Bucket List portrays two terminally ill men, Edward Cole and … Continue
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AARP Names Portland, Maine As Best Travel Destination: Senior Trips
AARP has named Portland, Maine as its #1 travel destination of the year. Why Portland? Active harbor, Portland Head Light, great restaurants, fun shopping and proximity to L.L. Bean are a few reasons. There are other travel … Continue
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Living with Diabetes: help for diabetics in Maine
A few facts: Diabetes affects 25.8 million people, or 8.3% of the U.S. population. Among U.S. residents aged 65 years and older, 10.9 million, or 26.9% had diabetes in 2010. That’s an incredible number of people living … Continue
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Maine Retirees Pension Changes- Maine Association of Retirees file suit over pension changes
A 15,000-member group that represents retired state workers and teachers filed a lawsuit yesterday against the state retirement system over changes made last year to cost-of-living payments. In a class-action suit filed in federal district court in … Continue
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Incontinence: new hope with sacral nerve stimulation
New Hope for People with Urinary and Bowel Incontinence By Roxanne Jones, Freelance writer specializing in health and medicine If you think that incontinence is a normal part of aging and something you just have to live … Continue
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Georgianna Preacher: Brunswick poet exhibits at USM
Congratulations to Georgianna Preacher, a resident of Thornton Oaks in Brunswick who is featured as a solo exhibitor at the Chappell Center for Book Arts at USM. The exhibit is open from February 1 to April 30. … Continue
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Eating for MS & Alzheimers: brain cell biology
We see daily articles about eating various high-protein/low-carb or low-fat/low-calorie or other permutations of diet that will make us thinner, healthier or better looking. Check out this video, in which a doctor talks about the hunter-gatherer diet … Continue