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(Photo illustration/Pixabay
Posted inSeniors

My young son loves his Grandma. How do I explain her Alzheimer’s to him?

Rita Clancy by Rita Clancy February 20, 2018February 20, 2018
Doris Sperber at her 110th birthday party, Jan. 18, 2018  (Photo/Dan Pine)
Posted inJewish Life

The Bay Area’s oldest Jew? Meet Doris Sperber, who just had her 110th birthday

by Dan Pine January 19, 2018January 23, 2018
Dr. Steven Z. Pantilat tells patients that a bad diagnosis isn’t the end of the story.
Posted inJewish Life

Serious diagnosis? UCSF doctor has advice in new book

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller October 11, 2017October 11, 2017
Dr. Gladys Monroy and Larry Marks visiting the Weizmann Institute along with other Bay Area funders in 2014
Posted inNews

Israel’s Weizmann Institute receives $6 million from Bay Area couple

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 10, 2017March 19, 2018
FDR's last photograph, April 11, 1945. He died the following day of complications related to high blood pressure. (Photo/Wikimedia-FDR Presidential Library & Museum CC BY 2.0)
Posted inColumns

Do you have high blood pressure? You’d better find out

by Dr. Jerry Saliman August 17, 2017August 16, 2017
Lior Tsarfaty strikes a chord with a woman in a scene from the documentary short “There is a Place.”
Posted inJewish Life

This musician is unlocking lost memories and hidden emotions in seniors

Alissa Greenberg by Alissa Greenberg August 16, 2017August 15, 2017
Henrietta Baron (Photo/Elissa Einhorn)
Posted inJewish Life

‘Three ageless’ at Sacramento shul top 300 years of life

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn August 13, 2017August 11, 2017
image of a pen and a stethoscope resting on a notepad
Posted inColumns

I have an itch.

Barbara Rose Brooker by Barbara Rose Brooker August 9, 2017August 14, 2017
and old woman sits smiling on a park bench with a small black and white dog on her lap
Posted inJewish Life, Seniors

Meet this 90-something social butterfly and former chicken farmer

Shoshana Hebshi by Shoshana Hebshi June 19, 2017
the hands of an elderly man
Posted inColumns, Family Matters, Health, Jewish Life, Seniors

What will happen to the rivalry between my daughters when I’m gone?

Rita Clancy by Rita Clancy June 15, 2017June 16, 2017

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