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	<description>End the stigma against dementia</description>
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		<title>POSTER for &#8220;A SOCIAL CHANGE&#8221;</title>
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		<link>http://doknotforget.com/2010/11/poster-for-a-social-change/</link>
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		<title>Exercise fights Alzheimer&#8217;s disease</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Health care professionals routinely encourage us to get out there and exercise. The benefits of an active lifestyle are legion &#8212; reduced weight, an efficient heart, healthy lungs and a general sense of well-being. New research is now suggesting that exercise during middle age may help stave off dementia, and may even be an important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loneliness and Risk of Alzheimer Disease</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A research team from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago has added to their already excellent work on factors associated with dementia. And this time instead of correlating potential risk variables with Alzheimer&#8217;s in a sample of people, they have a longitudinal study which followed people over time. They found that people who felt lonely [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://doknotforget.com/2010/09/loneliness-and-risk-of-alzheimer-disease/</link>
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		<title>How Twitter is changing old age</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ivy Bean, &#8220;the world&#8217;s oldest Twitter user,&#8221; dies at 104 &#8212; and reminds us of the Internet&#8217;s power to connect Like other social networkers, Ivy Bean found in the online community a home in which to share her opinions on sports (she was a Manchester United fan), food (fish and chips &#8212; and plenty of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://doknotforget.com/2010/08/how-twitter-is-changing-old-age/</link>
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		<title>Senior citizens carve their own niche with laptops and Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They may not be &#8220;digital natives,&#8221; but senior citizens find connectedness through laptops and Facebook Janeen Morel does not define herself by her age, and the septuagenarian&#8217;s embrace of the latest technology is an example of that approach. Her laptop links her to world and family news and entertaining games, and it jazzes up her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Destigmatizing Death and Dying Through Social Media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Death and Dying, Blogging and Reality TV Forty years ago, Elisabeth Kubler Ross railed against the indignity and inhumanity of cancer patients being shunted to the back wards of the hospital to die alone. &#8220;We isolate both the dying and the old, and it serves a purpose,&#8221; she testified to Congress in 1972. &#8220;They are [...]]]></description>
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