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		<title>Care Considerations at the End of Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most people have heard the admonitions regarding end of life planning: Let your wishes be known! Not surprisingly, we tend to avoid the nitty-gritty of our mortality and that of family members’…hoping perhaps that we will all be among those who go quietly while watching cable. Should you have some level of control and choice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CREATING SMART GOALS FOR 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How come we seldom seem to achieve the goals we set for ourselves? Join your Life Care Team for a very special program on setting &#8220;SMART&#8221; goals for the New Year! THURSDAY- DECEMBER 15, 2011-3:30-4:30 44931 Homberg Drive RSVP -865-588-3700]]></description>
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		<title>HOLIDAY TIPS FOR MAKING MERRY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Join your Life Care Team for this special holiday presentation on Thursday, November 17, 2011 4:00-5:00 PM 4931 Homberg Drive RSVP 865-588-3700]]></description>
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		<title>OLDER ADULT STRESS INTERVENTION SKILLS: CREATING YOUR OASIS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Join your Life Care Team for this very special program on Thursday, September 15, 2011  from 4:00 to 5:00 PM  4931 Homberg Drive; Knoxville, TN 37919 RSVP: 865-588-3700]]></description>
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		<title>COPING WITH GRIEF AND LOSS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Join your Life Care Team at the Elder Law Practice of Monica Franklin, CELA for this special educational program on Thursday, August 11, 2011 from 4-5:30 pm at 4931 Homberg Drive in Knoxville. RSVP 865-588-3700]]></description>
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		<title>The Life Care Education Series Continues with a Special July Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Join us for a Special Presentation: Getting the Most from Your Doctor Visits – Good Healthcare for older adults is an essential and often a complex matter. We are all familiar with the frustrations of long waits and short visits at the doctor’s office. Physicians face similar frustrations with the demands and constraints of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Care Concerns in the Nursing Home? A Simple Lesson in Getting Results</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Entrusting your fragile, dependent loved one to strangers upon whom she will depend for the most basic and intimate necessities of life, most likely for the rest of her life, is a difficult process. There are oodles of layers and dynamics of all kinds which complicate our best intentions to be effective advocates: Guilt? Sadness? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Find another reason to be nice to your kids&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[    The first time I saw this lil’ bit o’terrorism was years ago in the admissions office of a nursing home. Yes, really. Ugh! Inclined to consider meaning and motivation, my efforts to understand and somehow articulate the significance of this “message” in that setting made my head hurt then, as it does now. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Join us for &#8220;Caring for Your Parents&#8221; this weekend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Faith United Methodist Church will host “Caring for Your Parents” on Sunday, March 27 from 2-4 pm.  Adult children with aging parents will especially benefit from this free program sponsored by the Office on Aging’s One Call Club, Covenant Health Senior Services, the Mercy Health Partners Geriatric Assessment Program, and the Elder Law Practice of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heartening news from the Center for MedicareAdvocacy:</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Heartening news from the Center for MedicareAdvocacy: WASHINGTON — Two federal courts have ruled that the Obama administration is using overly strict standards to determine whether older Americans are entitled to Medicare coverage of skilled nursing home care and home health care. Medicare will pay for those services if they are needed to maintain a [...]]]></description>
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