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Well-Aging Adults

Well-aging adults provide tremendous support to their communities and frail-aging peers. NCBAM supports them with spiritual resources and practical information to provide help for their journey, too.  To contact NCBAM, or to sign up for the quarterly newsletter, click here.

Recent Posts

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Posted by Jim Edminson on February 28, 2012

The homes we chose when we were young adults were often designed for growing families. They were perfect for our needs at the time. But they were homes that USC Davis School of Gerontology professor Dr. Jon Pyoons calls “Peter Pan Housing.”...read on

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Posted by Michael C. Blackwell on February 23, 2012

In one of Anne Lamott's novels a teenage girl has become caught in the web of several addictions. She is sinking deeper into an abyss and her parents seem helpless in knowing what to do. One friend of the mother speaks to her of the dangers...read on

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Posted by Michael C. Blackwell on February 21, 2012

People who are 75 or older and have to make a trip to the emergency room because of pain are less likely to be given pain medication than a younger patient with the same complaint.

Those results come from a seven-year study of patient data...read on