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...Infections and eating problems were hallmark for patients [with advanced dementia],” said Mitchell, who is also a senior scientist at Hebrew SeniorLife (HSL), a Harvard Medical School affiliate. “Far too many patients received stressing symptoms, and the care they receive at the end of life has not been optimal, in part because they have not been recognized as [having] a terminal illness...
Dementia is most often thought of as a memory disorder, an illness of the aging mind. In its initial stages, that's true - memory loss is an early hallmark of dementia. But experts in the field say dementia is more accurately defined as fatal brain failure: a terminal disease, like cancer, that physically kills patients, not simply a mental ailment that accompanies older age. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...pull from abroad highlights Indian culture, still rooted in humility and family, as seemingly incompatible with the supply of rising incomes. Tastes turn to the West, visible even in the hallmark of Indian entertainment—Bollywood—as more expensive movies are filmed in foreign locations and now often feature Hindi subtitles with spoken English. (A Bollywood remake of The Hangover is due next year.) Admittedly, it would be misleading to overstate these generalizations—yet they are overtly glaring to an Indian-American...
...What about her sleeveless dresses? A lot has been written about all of her sleeveless looks, her sleeveless sheaths, which is definitely a hallmark of her, with her very well-toned arms. Was that statement-making in its own right? Maybe. She wasn't the first First Lady to wear sleeveless looks. Jackie Kennedy did, and Nancy Reagan did. But she's got a terrific well-toned physique, and so I think hers was more statement-making. (See photos: "Behind the Scenes with Michelle Obama...
...affairs. One wonders why a man of Gorbachev's stature fails perhaps to garner as much critical acclaim as his contemporaries in the West. It probably has to do with his complicated ideological position, as both the leader and the reformer of the Marxist Soviet state. Eclecticism was the hallmark of his thinking and politics. Today the world needs more leaders who bridge differences rather than those who capitalize on them. Amit Pradhan, Baroda, India...