Marriage Ends, Health Declines
... less clear how you will fare if you lose your spouse to divorce or death. Now, a new study shows ... those with "marital loss" -- meaning losing a spouse to death or divorce -- had 20 percent more ... if you had chosen the divorce, or if your spouse was the one who asked for it," said ...Project 515 Proposes Legislation to Ensure Equality During Times of Illness and Death
... of the lien until after the patient's surviving spouse also dies. However, a surviving same-sex partner ... -- Seeking justice after a wrongful death -- If a spouse is wrongfully killed, such as in a car accident, the surviving spouse may sue the person responsible to recover medical ...New guide explores making the most of Social Security
... reduction in benefits also extends to a surviving spouse if the retiree dies and the spouse has no Social Security worker benefit that would ... payout. "So particularly if the surviving spouse is younger and/or healthier, the retiree needs to ...Living with a partner reduces risk of Alzheimer's
... Living with a spouse or a partner decreases the risk of developing ... of this present study was whether living with a spouse or a partner can help to ward off dementia. The results show that people living with a spouse or a partner in midlife ran a 50 per cent lower ...Secondhand Smoke Raises Stroke Risk for Spouses
... note risk dissipates quickly once smoking spouse quits TUESDAY, July 29 (HealthDay ... much time would need to elapse after a smoking spouse quits before their husband or wife's stroke risk fully dissipated. "But we think the risk to the spouse probably starts to decline right away," Glymour ...Key Steps Can Help with Financial Impact of Disability
... A spouse’s income. Having a supportive spouse is a blessing, and having a spouse who works can significantly help in the long term. Sometimes an SSDI claimant’s spouse can return to work or increase worked hours to ...Active Social Life Helps Keep Aging Mind Sharp
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... to men and women, age 55-85 years (inclusive, mean age=69.4) with Mini-Mental State Exam scores =24, self-reported memory complaint corroborated by spouse or companion, and Wechsler Memory Scale III (WMS-III) age-adjusted Logical Memory II score =5. One hundred forty-four (144) subjects were randomized ...New Survey Suggests Cultural Ambivalence to Allergies Leaves Many Suffering Needlessly
... to call in sick or change plans because of their allergies." The survey of allergy sufferers found that about half (48 percent) feel their spouse or significant other does not view their allergies to be a serious health condition. Sufferers also perceive others as not taking their allergies ...Ulcerative Colitis (UC) Sufferers Find UC Quite Disruptive to Many Aspects of Daily Life
... survey say not feeling well has become a normal part of life. Furthermore, they describe UC as disruptive when it comes to their relationship with a spouse (64 percent), their sexual relations (75 percent) and their emotional state (82 percent). UC patients "normalize" aspects of their experience to ...NYU Langone Medical Center's tip sheet to the International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease 2008
... report. Presentation # PS-070 Couples Counseling Helps the spouse Caregiver Mary S. Mittelman, Dr.P.H., Research Professor in the ... July 30 at 2:30 p.m. CT When the patient with Alzheimer's and their spouse caregiver are counseled separately, they are expected to go home and live ...Spousal illness can trigger partner death
... people aged 65 and older, hospitalization of a spouse can harm the wellbeing of his or her partner and ... Christakis examined the effect of illness in one spouse on the risk of illness in a partner--commonly ... they looked at the effect of the death of one spouse on the mortality of the other, known as the ...Stress substantially slows human body's ability to heal
... each person was fitted with a catheter through which blood could be drawn for later analysis. During the first visit, Kiecolt-Glaser said, each spouse was asked to talk for several minutes about some characteristic or behavior which he or she would like to change. This was a supportive, positive ...Are You Ready for Identity Theft?
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