Women of Note
Operator? Business, Insurer Take On End-of-Life Issues By Phone
Imagine you're at home. Maybe that's in Florida, Wisconsin, Rhode Island, wherever. You have cancer. You just had another round of chemo, and the phone rings. "My name is Kate. I'm a health care counselor," the gentle voice says from her cubicle in Cherry Hill, NJ. The caller could also choose to allow the counselor to talk to his doctors or family directly. It's paid for by insurers and federal privacy rules permit this for business purposes.
This is no telemarketing call … it’s about the end of your life. more »
Sexuality and Quality of Life in Aging from the Journal for Nurse Practioners
Among the survey respondents, all 50 years or older, 59% of men and 56% of women reported that their partners were not fulfilling their needs. More than a quarter of the men said they are not having enough sex, and a quarter of the women reported not having the lifestyle they had hoped for. [One researcher] contended that sex is still seen as men's territory, with women serving as silent partners and that women's perspectives and opinions are largely absent when it comes to the Viagra phenomenon as well. The dearth of population-based data about representations of the sexuality of older lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender individuals is notably missing in the literature. more »
Generations and Cousins at Dyckman: Broadening Our Chances for Genetic Refreshment
Julia Sneden writes: We are not so much proud of our ancestors as we are just grateful to them, for being tough enough and stubborn enough to have picked up and moved when they needed or simply wanted to do so. Crossing the Atlantic (or any other ocean) in a tiny little wooden ship must have taken huge amounts of courage, and once here, huge amounts of energy and brain power to keep from starving to death. more »
A Ten-Second Earthquake Alert: An Early-Warning System Across the US One Day
Japan has had a nationwide alert system since 2007 that provided seconds of warning after the devastating magnitude -9 Tohoku-Oki quake in 2011. Japan has had a nationwide alert system since 2007 that provided seconds of warning after the devastating magnitude-9 Tohoku-Oki quake in 2011. more »