Caregiving: It will show up as a regular topic in this column.
Family caregivers provide most long-term services and support in the United States, assisting adults with disabilities and complex health needs such as dementia.
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Caregiving pillar 3: Skills
A skill is the learned ability to perform a specific action or task with good execution and successful results. Skills are developed as we acquire them through training, practice, and experience. They are not innate, even people skills such as empathy or active listening.
Caregiving pillar 2- Knowledge
What do we know about what supports caregivers? In a previous column I suggested six things; a notebook, knowledge, skills, a plan, occasional respite, and our continued friendship this column is about knowledge. Truly little, even parenting or work life, prepares us for being responsible for care and support of
Aging: Which one is it? Probably not an either-or question.
Charles DeGaulle, former prime minister of France famously said "Old age is a shipwreck" which he used to describe the inevitable physical and cognitive decline, vulnerability, and loss of independence that accompanied the advanced age of a colleague.
Golf. But don’t keep score
Upon learning a friend has a diagnosis of dementia we find ourselves in an awkward moment—what do I do or say? My suggestion is to be a friend and find a way—the loss of friends for persons with dementia is often reported as one of the biggest losses they face.
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Nashua Fire Claims Two Lives; Investigation Ongoing
NASHUA, N.H. - A devastating early morning fire on Orange Street in Nashua claimed the lives of two residents on Tuesday, prompting a multi-agency investigation and pushing New Hampshire’s fatality count near last year’s total. Emergency responders were dispatched around 3:30 a.m. following reports of
At least two fatalities in early morning Nashua apartment fire
Initial report is based on a video interview at the scene with Chief Steve Buxton provided by FOM Media NASHUA, N.H. - Nashua fire crews knocked down a second‑alarm blaze early Tuesday morning that tore through the upper floors of an eight‑unit residential building on Orange Street, leaving
Rollover crash on interstate 93 in Londonderry
LONDONDERRY, N.H. – A rollover crash slowed Sunday traffic on Interstate 93 in Londonderry. At 8:10 p.m. on Sunday, July 19, 2026, State Troopers assigned to the Troop B barracks responded to a reported rollover crash near mile marker 15.6 on I-93 in Londonderry. The preliminary
Major highway shut down for more than an hour in Merrimack, NH
MERRIMACK, NH - The F.E. Everett Turnpike was shut down both northbound and southbound Monday afternoon due to a series of events. Initial information is that a tractor trailer traveling northbound in a construction site area under the Baboosic Lake Rd overpass caught several communication lines and ripped them down.