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Son charts mom's heartbreaking descent into dementia
Molly Daley's battle with Lewy body dementia — the second most common form of the disease in older adults after Alzheimer’s — has been painstakingly chronicled by her son. By Becky Bratu and Mariana Keller.
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Redemption Song
Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros
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Good Hair
Going natural despite family and societal expectations. An essay by Kimberly Melton.
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Solitude and Leadership
If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts. By William Deresiewicz.
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‘When you find my body’: The last days of hiker Gerry Largay
Lost for at least 19 days in the Maine wilderness, the 66-year-old hiker died as she had lived: with courage and with grace. By Kathryn Miles.
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Good Graces
A daughter-in-law finds that familiar food can open even the most notoriously closed channels of communication. By Carolyn Phillips.
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Mystery of 101-year-old master pianist who has dementia
Somehow an elderly woman who struggles to recognise people or where she is can tap in to the musical training of her youth to play nearly 400 songs by ear. By Aviva Rutkin. (Jul 9, 2016)
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A New Vision for Dreams of the Dying
A team of clinicians and researchers is trying to understand the importance of deathbed dreams to help the ill and the bereaved. By Jan Hoffman. (Feb. 2, 2016)
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‘The scene belonged to a disaster movie, not a family holiday’: the day my partner drowned
When Decca Aitkenhead’s partner, Tony, died rescuing their son from a riptide, she believed she had survived the worst time of her life. But there was more to come.
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Ain’t Got No
Nina Simone, Antibes, 1969.
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What Goes Through Your Mind: On Nice Parties and Casual Racism
On casual racism in otherwise polite company, and the split-second deliberations that go into deciding how to respond in a no-win scenario. By Nicole Chung.
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Emerson on What Beauty Really Means, How to Cultivate Its True Hallmarks, and Why It Bewitches the Human Imagination
“The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.”
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