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A recipe folder especially for the veteran Couch Potato. Chock full of fiber and vitamins, these recipes fills you up instead of making you crave for junk foods. It’s especially for the couch potato because you can make them all under 15 minutes: during the commercial breaks!

TV Junkie Gorp
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You can improve these hard-to-develop bodyparts, and improve your grip and gait as well.

When you do enough weight training, your attention will eventually come to your calves and forearms—two of the most difficult areas to develop. Your forearms get some work every time you do heavy pulling exercises. In fact, sometimes your forearms and hand grip strength will give out before your lats do. Calves don’t get too much emphasis in most lower body weight training, but they provide much of the propulsion in walking and running.
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Football players wouldn’t think of getting on the field without their protective equipment. But gridiron heroes are probably at less risk of a hip fracture than the frail elderly. Now they have their own equipment.
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Antidepressants, used in conjunction with psychotherapy, can help treat cases of severe depression. Depression is a serious mental illness in which a person has feelings of profound sadness and despair for weeks or months, causing physical manifestations and severely disrupting life, activities and relationships. This has been termed the number two disabling disease of Western civilization.
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Men go through physical as well as mental declines as they age and as a consequence, they encounter various degrees of erectile problems. If there is an underlying emotional component to the problem, this advice could be of benefit to you. However, in case this turns out to be a health issue, some recent surgical procedures or remedies may help you regain healthy function.
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Our Quality Assurance program is designated to systematically monitor, measure, and evaluate the standards, and appropriateness of care and services to assure clients the highest possible level of service.

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Physical therapy services, assist in restoring and maintaining maximum musculoskeletal functions. From hip fractures to sprains, to patients with unsteady gait, our therapist are specialized in helping the patient restore their confidence in their ability to ambulate themselves throughout their living environment.

Occupational    therapy
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Occupational Therapy strives to improve the level of independence in activities of daily living.

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Speech therapy assists in improving swallowing disorders and the communicative activities of daily living.

Medical Social Workers

Facilitate long term planning to promote independence and provide opportunities to take advantage of a variety of community resources designed to assist the elderly with their personal concerns and help alleviate their troubles.

Pain Management

You bring your medicine home from the drug store.  It is your usual prescription - or so you think.  But when you shake out the first pill, you see that it doesn’t look the same as the pills you usually get.  What should you do? You check the label again to verify the name of the medication, only to discover that it’s something completely unpronounceable, containing more letters than would seem humanly possible.

This frequently happens across the United States, and could be avoided with proper patient education concerning FDA approved generic medications. When this happens, many patients immediately think someone gave them the wrong medicine or filled their prescription wrong. It is quite likely that your prescription was filled as prescribed, but with a more cost effective generic drug that is the same as the brand name you were receiving beforehand.

When we find this out, we usually go back to the pharmacy ready to argue, until the pharmacist assures us that the medication is what was prescribed, only in its generic form.

So what should you expect after getting a generic drug with regards to what seems to be on your label and in the container? These are some areas where generics tend to be obviously different than their brand-name counterparts. Realizing that there are these differences, but that the medication is still the same, can help put you at ease, and when you call or return to the pharmacist to ask questions, they’ll be better able to educate you. Please be mindful that that information below is correct, yet should not be your only source for proof of a correctly filled prescription. Contact your pharmacist prior to taking the medication if you have any doubts. Having said that, the fact is many pharmacies are sure to inform the patient about the generic medication before the patient leaves.

Here are some differences you will find with generics:

Color, Shape,  and Size:  Generic medications are usually made by generic drug companies. These are independent companies that have no connection with the brand maker of a drug. For this reason, the way they manufacture and design the appearance and size of a medication can vary. This is based entirely on the production of the pill. The styles differ a lot from one company to the next. The brand name tablet may be a different color and shape than its generic form. This is a superficial difference.  Generics are approved by the FDA to be exactly like their name brand equivalents.
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