Tales of Hurricane Sandy survival will likely emerge for years — particularly about the sick and elderly who were trapped in their homes or forced to evacuate under harrowing circumstances. Many of those stories have happy endings, like this one of social media and neighborliness I recently heard.It is about two ailing 90-year-olds who, because of social media, formal and informal, and the ingenuity...
The New Old Age Blog: After Storm, 'Friends' Rescue a Caregiver
Label: LifestyleTales of Hurricane Sandy survival will likely emerge for years — particularly about the sick and elderly who were trapped in their homes or forced to evacuate under harrowing circumstances. Many of those stories have happy endings, like this one of social media and neighborliness I recently heard.It is about two ailing 90-year-olds who, because of social media, formal and informal, and the ingenuity...
Lebanon’s Shiites and Sunnis Fight in Syria, but Not at Home
Label: WorldNatalie Naccache for The New York TimesA Lebanese man who had been in Homs, Syria, fighting President Bashar al-Assad’s forces. ARSAL, Lebanon — The patchwork of Sunni Muslim and Shiite villages arrayed along the northern border with Syria are heavily embroiled in the protracted struggle there, but with a distinctive twist. Fighters from Hezbollah, the militant Lebanese Shiite movement, cross...
Dec
19
DealBook: As Unit Pleads Guilty, UBS Pays $1.5 Billion Over Rate Rigging
Label: BusinessUBS, the Swiss banking giant, announced a record settlement with global authorities on Wednesday, agreeing to a combined $1.5 billion in fines for its role in a multiyear scheme to manipulate interest rates.In a sign that officials are increasingly taking a hard line against financial wrongdoing, the Justice Department also secured a guilty plea from the bank’s Japanese subsidiary, sending a warning...
The New Old Age Blog: Older People Become What They Think, Study Shows
Label: HealthAll of us have beliefs — many of them subconscious, dating back to childhood — about what it means to get older. Psychologists call these “age stereotypes.” And, it turns out, they can have an important effect on seniors’ health.When stereotypes are negative — when seniors are convinced becoming old means becoming useless, helpless or devalued — they are less likely to seek preventive medical care...
The New Old Age Blog: Older People Become What They Think, Study Shows
Label: LifestyleAll of us have beliefs — many of them subconscious, dating back to childhood — about what it means to get older. Psychologists call these “age stereotypes.” And, it turns out, they can have an important effect on seniors’ health.When stereotypes are negative — when seniors are convinced becoming old means becoming useless, helpless or devalued — they are less likely to seek preventive medical care...
U.N. Suspends Immunization Work in Pakistan
Label: World ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The United Nations suspended all polio-related field activities in Pakistan on Wednesday after more attacks on public health workers attempting to immunize children. Two people were killed and another wounded around the northwestern city of Peshawar. The shootings followed a day of violence on Tuesday in the port city of Karachi in which four female health...
Dec
18
President Delivers a New Offer on the Fiscal Crisis to Boehner
Label: BusinessJoshua Roberts/ReutersSpeaker John A. Boehner returned to his office on Monday after meeting with President Obama. WASHINGTON — President Obama delivered to Speaker John A. Boehner a new offer on Monday to resolve the pending fiscal crisis, a deal that would raise revenues by $1.2 trillion over the next decade but keep in place the Bush-era tax rates for any household with earnings below $400,000....
The New Old Age Blog: In the Middle: Helping Unhappy Couples
Label: HealthA post on Monday discussed the forces that can make an older couple’s good marriage suddenly go bad — an array of subtle, and often-misunderstood, mental, physical and emotional factors that can upset the equilibrium of even the happiest marriages.Now we have consulted marriage counselors and geriatricians to find out what caregivers — either the grown children of the couple, or one of the spouses...
The New Old Age Blog: In the Middle: Helping Unhappy Couples
Label: LifestyleA post on Monday discussed the forces that can make an older couple’s good marriage suddenly go bad — an array of subtle, and often-misunderstood, mental, physical and emotional factors that can upset the equilibrium of even the happiest marriages.Now we have consulted marriage counselors and geriatricians to find out what caregivers — either the grown children of the couple, or one of the spouses...
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