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Hayley
21, Female
Boston, MA, United States - Share
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- Age
- 21
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- Boston
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- MA
- About me
- I grew up in the Hudson Valley region of New York and have been living in Boston for the past three years. I'm in my final year as an undergraduate student at Emerson College. I'll be hopefully entering the "lucrative" publishing world when I graduate in December.
Having worked in a nursing home and rehabilitation center for two years, I'm fairly familiar with health care, specifically in relation to the elderly. I have personal experience with Alzheimer's care.
My main health interests are mental health as well as sleep disorders.
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Hayley's Blog
Tai Chi Chih Helps Insomnia
Tai chi chih, a Westernized offshoot of tai chi, has been proven to help insomnia sufferers. A recent Reuters article claims that practicing light exercise 20 - 30 minutes a day can improve your sleeping habits: "Nearly two-thirds of people who learned the slow, gentle tai chi chih moves experienced significant improvements in sleep quality, compared to about one-th… Continue
Posted on July 9th, 2008 at 12:40pm —
Bedtime Relaxation Tips
I have a hard time sleeping. Some nights it takes me hours to get to sleep; other nights I fall asleep almost instantly only to wake up in the early morning. If I'm lucky (which I am very often not), I can have two or three hours of unbroken sleep in a night. Otherwise, I wake up constantly and am often awake for extended periods of time. The sleeping pill market is thriving these days, thanks to the increased media focus on Ambien, the slew of over-the-counter diphenhydramine-based tablets (Si… Continue
Posted on July 9th, 2008 at 10:23am — 2 Comments
Juggling Life in the Sandwich Generation
In my quest to find more information on Alzheimer's caregiving, I've come across a great deal of information on the Sandwich Generation—those adult caregivers who are "sandwiched" between their children and aging parents. I was recently reading a BlogHer post by Nordette entitled Life as a Sandwich Generation Mom. In her post, she discusses how the appearance of a black snake disrupted her day… Continue
Posted on June 26th, 2008 at 3:55pm — 2 Comments
Virtual Dementia Tour Video
The Alzheimer's Notes blog has posted an interesting video to a Virtual Dementia Tour. Through this, you can "experience" Alzheimer's. It's a promotional video for a kit from the Second Wind Dreams website designed to help medical professionals and caregivers to better empathize with their patients. According to t… Continue
Posted on June 26th, 2008 at 11:56am — 3 Comments
Early onset Alzheimer's overwhelms spouses
Kris Bakowski of the blog Creating Memories has written a recent entry on the issues involved in claiming Social Security benefits. Living with early onset Alzheimer's, she says that she must rely on her husband and son to help her with both day-to-day things and bigger tasks. She writes: "I get confused dealing with them and the insurance company that… Continue
Posted on June 24th, 2008 at 9:30pm — 2 Comments
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