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Managing meds can prevent drug interactions

October 23, 2015April 25, 2024 agingbeat_r2ngse

  Jane Mitchell takes four different prescription drugs each day. She takes one for blood pressure, one for cholesterol and one for osteoporosis. Then she takes another pill to treat heartburn the latter medication causes. ....

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Health care, The Bulletin

Piping a hero’s farewell

September 25, 2015April 25, 2024 agingbeat_r2ngse

The first few bagpipe notes of “Amazing Grace" echoed across a hilltop at Prineville@apos;s Juniper Haven Cemetery, bringing a somber silence to Phillip T. Quinn@apos;s graveside service earlier this month "The highlanders believed we summoned ....

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The Bulletin, Veteran's issues

Planning death: Choices and dialogue at the end of life

August 10, 2015April 13, 2024 agingbeat_r2ngse

Milton Buehner braved floodwaters in Houston to see an oncologist at one of the country’s leading cancer centers in May so he could learn more about his diagnosis of a rare form of renal cancer. ....

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Death and dying, Health care, The Bulletin

Reverse mortgages on the rise in Deschutes County

March 13, 2015April 25, 2024 agingbeat_r2ngse

Frances and Ken Byrum faced a difficult choice last year when they lost a supplemental insurance plan that paid most of their medical bills. The couple, respectively 69 and 81, could pay the plan’s premiums ....

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Retirement community brewers take on Alzheimer’s

November 28, 2014April 25, 2024 agingbeat_r2ngse

Three weeks ago, Joe Reeves peered into the small batch kettle at Worthy Brewing Company’s east Bend production facility and watched 155 gallons of the Aspen Ridge Retirement Community’s Machine Gun Maggie Imperial IPA boil at a steady ....

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Long-term care, The Bulletin, Uncategorized

Drug Theft Affects Care

September 8, 2013April 13, 2024 agingbeat_r2ngse

When he was confronted by police and his supervisors with some questionable medication records about nine months ago, Cole Elf, 28, of Bend, admitted he stole 40 prescription painkillers from a handful of residents at ....

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Health care, Long-term care, The Bulletin

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