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Behavioral and developmental disorders have become more common in recent years. While the jury is still out on whether those numbers can be attributed to better diagnoses or a toxic environment – or perhaps a combination of both – understanding these disorders is the first step toward helping those affected by them to live as […]
It can happen more easily than you think: a once-healthy, active and social person may experience any number of issues as a senior which could open the door for the development of depression. Often, the symptoms of depression are overlooked, and, according to the nonprofit group Mental Health America, the condition is commonly left untreated […]
Most young people sigh sentimentally when they see an elderly couple walking hand-in-hand. Just don’t ask them to envision anything more overt between people old enough to be their parents or grandparents. But the truth is, love, romance and even sex can (and should be) still very much a part of later life. There is […]
They Make Life Better for the Humans They Serve Some dogs undergo extensive training so they will be able to complete tasks that people can’t handle themselves, while others help out simply by being dogs. There obviously is a distinct difference between service dogs and therapy dogs, but the end result is generally the same: […]
Suicide. It’s a subject that few people want to talk about. We either don’t know how to help those who are unfortunately plagued by thoughts so awful that they would want to end their life, or we refuse to acknowledge that suicide is a real problem that affects so many people. The problem is particularly […]
“Water, water everywhere … nor any drop to drink,” Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote. The poet could have been thinking of the Lowcountry when he penned those words. That’s just what the situation would be here in the wake of a disaster such as a major hurricane. Even surrounded by rivers and the Atlantic Ocean, without […]