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An older adult starts missing appointments. She forgets where she put things, starts a sentence, and loses the end of…
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She keeps everything bottled up. Never raises her voice at work. Doesn’t argue with her partner; enduring every transgression with…
Senior hearing loss may first look like a phone ringing through breakfast, then ringing again after lunch, with no answer…
The paperwork arrives in a plastic bag with a hospital logo on it. A nurse goes over it quickly at…
You’ve just emerged from the MRI machine. The doctor reads off the report, describing degenerative changes at multiple levels. Hearing…
She was 38 when she finally got the diagnosis. Great at her job and holding things together on the surface,…