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Boomers Are in Worse Health than Seniors!

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

The results are in: Boomers are in worse health, more pain and less physically able than Seniors. And, they’re younger than us Seniors are!

So, what happened? How come this huge generation that’s been dogging our footsteps since we were kids is now not doing so well? What’s the matter with them? Read More→

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Don’t Do’s for Talking to Your Doctor About Senior Sex

Monday, October 19th, 2009

Don’t make these mistakes on your next doctor’s visit, especially when you want to talk about sex. Not only will they just waste your time, but you won’t get your questions answered and your needs met. Yet, most people make these mistakes with every doctor’s visit they have.

Mistake #1: Get Lost Read More→

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Is Your Desire Sabotaged by Your Medicine Cabinet?

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

We’ve talked before about how the practice of medicine has been changing, and the effects this can have on your getting the care you need. Most physicians are challenged with too little time and too many patients.There is a tendency to “prescribe a pill” to take care of just about any complaint.

For many situations, this can have pretty good results for the medical condition you currently have.

But, there are often side effects of these effective meds that can Read More→

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Don’t Let Arthritis Take the Satisfaction Out of Your Senior Sex

Monday, September 14th, 2009

One of the questions that I’m often asked is from couples who want to keep on love’n, but find arthritis is getting in their way. While arthritis is no longer considered an “old person’s disease” is can be a real hinderance to having satisfying senior sex.

Especially if one or both of you have arthritis in your hip, legs, arms, or back.

And, if you are still relying on what we used to call “The Missionary Position” Read More→

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Predictable Changes of Aging Women Experience

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

For women, the changes of aging may seem obvious.

We go through menopause, whether hastened along by a hysterectomy, or the “natural path” of waiting for our hormones to slow down and eventually stop.

While the primary effect is cessation of our child bearing ability, there are lots more subtle, and not so subtle, side effects of no more hormones.

Many men would say, “Finally Read More→