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Susan Seliger

  • Producer and Host, Out by 10
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Another Hospital Hazard for the Elderly

Another Hospital Hazard for the Elderly

The New York Times nytimestest — Hours before she fell and broke her hip, my mother, 85, lucid and whip-smart, was doing what she always did in the morning: drinking an entire pot of coffee and digesting both The New York Times and The Baltimore Sun. The next day she came out of the hip surgery just fine.
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What Price Beauty? A Consumer's Guide to Cosmetic Surgery

What Price Beauty? A Consumer's Guide to Cosmetic Surgery

The Washingtonian Magazine — The sheet lies flat over her half-naked body. He walks in exuding confidence, smoothes back her blonde hair and caresses her head as he explains what is happening. ...the sedative is dripping from the plastic bag into her arm...Her breathing becomes a snore. She's a patient etherized upon a table; the nurses come and go, talking of the Johnny Carson show....He draws lines on her small breasts where cleavage will be, where he will cut....Each soft implant is stuffed through the two-inch yawn beneath her breasts...She has barely stirred. The mountains have come to her.
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For Older Drivers, Help With Parking

For Older Drivers, Help With Parking

nytimestest — Driving is not just about driving, any more than jokes are just about jokes. As discussed often here at The New Old Age, the battle between adult children and aging parents over who decides when it's time to give up the car keys can be highly emotional, because it's as much about losing freedom and independence as it is about safety.
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Granny Pods: In the Backyard, Grandma's New Apartment

Granny Pods: In the Backyard, Grandma's New Apartment

nytimestest — When her father became ill just before Christmas last year, Dr. Socorrito Baez-Page faced an increasingly common conundrum. Her aging parents wanted to stay in their town house, but her mother couldn't handle the caregiving alone.
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A Little-Known Benefit for Aging Veterans

A Little-Known Benefit for Aging Veterans

nytimestest — Here's a riddle: When is a government benefit that pays for caregivers, assisted living and a nursing home not a benefit? When hardly any people know they're entitled to it. (This is the first of a 5-part series on ow difficult it is for aging veterans and their families to find out about and obtain this much-needed benefit.)
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The Washington Woman: Women's Networks: A New Path to Power

The Washington Woman: Women's Networks: A New Path to Power

The Washingtonian Magazine — These four articles along with the results of a detailed poll of over 300 professional women in Washington (presented as a magazine within a magazine) won the Clarion Award. I researched and wrote all the articles and supervised the creation and computer analysis of the poll.
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Passionate Marriage

Passionate Marriage

WebMD — Experts explain what it takes to keep good sex, passion, and intimacy in your relationship. From the WebMD Archives Don't believe the jokes you've heard about passionate marriage: "I never knew what real happiness was until I got married, and by then it was too late."
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Foods to Help You Lose Weight

Foods to Help You Lose Weight

WebMD — Looking for foods to help you lose weight? These five tips will help you zero in on the foods that make you thin. From the WebMD Archives Wouldn't it be nice if every pound of chocolate you ate would make you lose a pound of flab?
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Stop Killing Yourself: Make Stress Work for You

Stop Killing Yourself: Make Stress Work for You

amazon.com — This fact-filled guide demonstrates how to turn your negative stress into positive stress through short tests that calculate the risks of stress, guidelines for evaluation of situations and symptoms, and step-by-step action plans for making specific, effective changes in your daily life.
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Yoga for Stress Management

Yoga for Stress Management

WebMD — Yoga Beginners: Tips to Get You Started and Enjoying the Relaxing Health Benefits. From the WebMD Archives Somewhere along the line you may have decided you are simply not the yoga type. Sure, you've heard the raves about yoga for stress management, but you can barely touch your toes.
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What's More Fun Than Sex? The Sometimes Undervalued, Indescribably Delicious...Kiss

What's More Fun Than Sex? The Sometimes Undervalued, Indescribably Delicious...Kiss

The Washingtonian Magazine — Sam played it again but he still got it wrong. A kiss isn't just a kiss, a sigh's not just a sigh, no matter how much time goes by. Not by a long shot.
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The 'Long and Unacceptable' Wait for a Veterans' Benefit

The 'Long and Unacceptable' Wait for a Veterans' Benefit

nytimestest — We wrote last fall about a form of government assistance for aging veterans called the Aid and Attendance pension benefit (A&A), which reimburses veterans and their families for the costs of caregivers working in the home (including sons and daughters who are paid to be caregivers, though not spouses) or can be used to pay for assisted living or nursing home care.
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'Superfoods' That May Help Ward off Heart Disease, Cancer, Cholesterol, and More

'Superfoods' That May Help Ward off Heart Disease, Cancer, Cholesterol, and More

WebMD — Experts say dozens of easy-to-find 'superfoods' can help ward off heart disease, cancer, cholesterol, and more. From the WebMD Archives Imagine a superfood -- not a drug -- powerful enough to help you lower your cholesterol, reduce your risk of heart disease and cancer, and, for an added bonus, put you in a better mood.
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Stress Can Be Good for You

Stress Can Be Good for You

New York Magazine cover story — It's a myth that stressful life in the city is bad for your mental and physical health. There is evidence that the biochemical effects of good stress can in fact reverse the course of a number of diseases. See why...
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Preventing Hospital Delirium

Preventing Hospital Delirium

nytimestest — My family and I watched my mother suddenly descend into delirium during her hospital stay after surgery. I can assure you that anyone who has seen somebody lose her mind within a matter of hours - even if she comes back from the dark side - doesn't ever want to see it happen again.
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Wonderful Marriage

Wonderful Marriage

amazon.com — I ghostwrote/co-authored this guide to how to make love last a lifetime.
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Rethinking the Value of Pets

Rethinking the Value of Pets

The New York Times — Think an elderly family member is better off with a pet? You may want to think again. Sure, there have been hundreds of articles claiming dogs and cats can lower blood pressure, zap stress and combat depression and loneliness. But some experts say the evidence that pet companionship is healthy is not all that definitive.
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V.A. Warns Aging Veterans Against 'Pension Poachers'

V.A. Warns Aging Veterans Against 'Pension Poachers'

The New York Times — If you've applied for the Aid and Attendance benefit from Department of Veterans Affairs - which can provide as much as $2,019 monthly for a veteran and spouse for caregiving expenses - then you are all too familiar with some of the reasons for the typical 8-to-18-month delays in getting an answer from the V.A.
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How to Shoot a Photo to Remember

How to Shoot a Photo to Remember

The New York Times — Sometimes the realization comes almost too late - you sense that your parents or other loved ones may soon be gone, and it dawns on you that you don't have any recent photos to remember them by. Sure, you might have a few photos of them in their youth, before you even knew them.
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After the Denial Letter Arrives

After the Denial Letter Arrives

The New York Times — If you've been rejected for the Department of Veterans Affairs Aid and Attendance (A&A) benefit, there are steps you can take to get your application reconsidered. But first, a warning: Do not do what the V.A. denial letter suggests you do, as that may only bring you years more of delays.
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In the Middle: Helping Unhappy Couples

In the Middle: Helping Unhappy Couples

nytimestest — A post on Monday discussed the forces that can make an older couple's good marriage suddenly go bad - an array of subtle, and often-misunderstood, mental, physical and emotional factors that can upset the equilibrium of even the happiest marriages.
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Why Won't They Get Hearing Aids?

Why Won't They Get Hearing Aids?

The New York Times — While visiting my parents recently, I overheard a conversation between them that went something like this. Mom, in the dining room: "Did you take out the trash?" Dad, in the living room: "I have plenty of cash. What do you need money for?" "What? I don't want any money."
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Are Kids Worth It? Why More Couples Are Thinking Harder About Having Childen

Are Kids Worth It? Why More Couples Are Thinking Harder About Having Childen

The Washingtonian Magazine — Choosing to have children is a hard decision, an awesome decision. It send me reeling...Married couples are happier than singles and couples with young children are less happy than those without...
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Managing Care Online

Managing Care Online

The New York Times — When Wendy Naumann's father and three siblings received her mother's diagnosis - a terminal brain tumor - they were overwhelmed. Just communicating within the family to keep everybody updated on her mother's condition was exhausting, as they were spread out across the country.
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