AMA Guide to Assessing and Counseling Older Drivers

Motor vehicle injuries are a leading cause of injury-related deaths in the older population (persons 65 years and older). Per mile driven, the fatality rate for drivers 85 years and older is 9 times higher than the rate for drivers 25 to 69 years old.

Physicians play an important role in the safe mobility of their older patients. The AMA encourages physicians to make driver safety a routine part of their geriatric medical services and the guide is freely available as PDF documents here:

AMA Physician's Guide to Assessing and Counseling Older Drivers

For example, dementia is just one of the risks that older drivers face:



Evaluation of driving risk in dementia (click to enlarge the image).

For patients with dementia, the following characteristics are useful for identifying
patients at increased risk for unsafe driving:

- Clinical Dementia Rating scale (Level A)
- caregiver’s rating of a patient’s driving ability as marginal or unsafe (Level B)
- history of crashes or traffic citations (Level C)
- reduced driving mileage or self-reported situational avoidance (Level C)
- Mini-Mental State Examination scores of 24 or less (Level C)
- aggressive or impulsive personality characteristics (Level C)

References:

AMA Physician's Guide to Assessing and Counseling Older Drivers

Evaluation of driving risk in dementia - practice parameter update

Soup Diet

3 days to 3 pounds in a single food diet

Target: an average of 2-3 pounds in 3 days.

Daily calories: 500 to 800 cal



SOUP Diet.



First of all, I need to specify whether a single type of soup diet. I will be sharing with you in the diets of different soups. But here is a list below for the overall implementation of the soup diets have a suggestion. Onion Soup Diet, Cabbage Soup Diet, nutritional value, but as high as possible, such as any low calorie diet, that this soup is a soup and then you can use.



In the meantime, because of the additive in the diet of soup ready for soups I have to say that would not work very well. You specify the content of any vegetable soup diet is sufficient for this.



The following is the menu even though I really like white cheese soup you can drink up all the extras you want to give up during the day. Long as they have sugar-free tea and coffee free. Of course, like all other diets and not eating anything after seven days during the evening, drink plenty of water.



This daily diet menus:



DAY 1

Morning: Breakfast: 50 grams. white cheese, tea, sugar-free

Lunch: fruit + soup until desired

Dinner: fruit + soup until desired



DAY 2

Morning: fruit + soup until desired

Lunch: fruit + soup until desired

Dinner: meat + soup until desired



DAY 3

Morning: fruit + soup until desired

Lunch: fruit + soup until desired

Dinner: rice porridge, fruit, banana, grapes, except + soup



Best diets!

Mixed One-Food Diet

5 days to 3 pounds in a single food diet

Target: an average of 2-3 pounds in 5 days.

Daily calories: 500 - 900 cal



Come and put my diet to a certain point, and unfortunately even the scales no longer plays a gram. Experts opinion on the subject that I diet in such cases "Single Food Diet", "Single-Food Diet" or "Single Food Regime" proposed application in the so-called type diets.



Such diets are extremely unhealthy, and in fact just a one-time implementation of the proposed. He also, but in certain situations. One-Food Diet on the internet 's not a single diet, I learned that the various approaches. One of the most major ones diet of bread, fruit and vegetable diets, soup diets and mixed food diet only. What I found through the internet on a diet that is very similar to each birbine I am writing as one of them.



Achievements!



Diet Bread

Fruit and Vegetable Diet

Soup Diet

Mixed One-Food Diet





SINGLE MIXED food diet.



All within a single food diets, I think this diet more healthy than others. Of course, the single-food diets, in general, need not apply, but under certain conditions applied to the preferred diets. The only other difference between this diet food diets, eat the same thing all day every day even if we change this preference on the board. You can create your own diet by yourself, but my suggestion below.



In the meantime you the freedom of tea and coffee, of course, including sugar-free, free to know that there is need to remind you? And again, as in all other diets do not eat after 7 o'clock in the evening.



This daily diet menus:



1. DAY

Except for very high-calorie fruits such as bananas, fruit as you want.



2. DAY

Raw vegetables as you want. Starchy vegetables like potatoes, of course, stay away from this special day.



3. DAY

Boiled potatoes as you want. Very little salt and plenty of fat-free yogurt sweetened potato stick to just stay in the proposal, but dieticians.



4. DAY

Your choice, homemade vegetable soup. Yet as much as desired.



5. DAY

Grilled meat every meal. Preferably fat-free chicken breast.



Best diets!

NEW! CFP: DISABLED MOTHERS

CALL FOR PAPERS

Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an edited collection on

DISABLED MOTHERS*

Co-editors: Gloria Filax and Dena Taylor

                           Publication Date: 2014

                      DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: DECEMBER 31, 2011!

While there are several books on raising children with disabilities, the literature is scant on experiences of disabled women who are raising children OR the experiences of those parented by a woman with disabilities. Bringing together disability with mothering has the potential to challenge dominant narratives of both mothering AND disability. Noticing dominant ideas, meanings, and/or stories/narratives (normative discourses) regarding both 'mothering' and 'disability' expose the limits beyond which disabled mothers live their daily lives.

The goal of this edited collection is to add to literatures on mothering and disability through providing stories by disabled mothers or their children as well as chapters of scholarly research and theorizing. We intend that both stories and research in this collection will raise critical questions about the social and cultural meanings of disability and mothering. Whether a birth mother, an adoptive mother,a foster mother, a co-mother, someone mothered by a disabled woman, or someone whose research explores disabled mothering, we invite you to submit to this collection.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

How are disabled women discouraged from having children? How does the medical model of disability shape the meanings assigned to disabled mothers? How do chronic illnesses affect mothering? Are disabled mothers healthy mothers? How do the social and cultural models of disability shape how we understand disabled mothers and mothering? Are disabled mothers oppressed? How doissues of race,class, and sexuality affect disabled mothers and their families? Should disabled mothers 'pass' as normal? How are pregnancy and birth experiences shaped by disability? How do children experience and understand a disabled mother? What support is needed and received by disabled mothers? How does the built environment, both public and private, shape the experiences of disabled mothers? What kinds of issues are there with children's schools, health professionals and/or children's attitudes? What form, if any, does social and political activism take? Do legal remedies work to assist disabled mothers (for example, disability as a protected category in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms or the Americans with Disabilities Act)? How does a mother's disability expose the expectations of mothering? How does a mother's disability expose the assumptions about disability? How is society disabling of mothering? How can we 'do' disabled mothering differently?


Submission Guidelines

Abstracts should be 250 words. Please also include a brief biography (50 words) with citizenship.

Please send to gfilax@shaw.ca and detaylor@cabrillo.edu

Deadline for Abstracts is December 31, 2011

Accepted papers of 4000-5000 words (15-20 pages) will be due October 15, 2012 and should conform to MLA citation format.

*Tanya Titchkosky argues that referring to "disabled people" is preferable because it emphasizes disablement as a social process that prevents certain people from access to resources and goods available to others. "People with disabilities" implies that disability is not part of what it is to be a person and leaves disability as a problem. We agree with Titchkosky and therefore our choice of the title for this collection is "Disabled Mothers". (See Tanya Titchkosky (2003) Disability, Self, and Society. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, chapter 2).


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Happy Chaos by Soleil Moon Frye AKA Punky Brewster

Not long ago I blogged about my Twitter Wins on my post : Thank You Twitter.  On the same day I got lucky and won Soleil's new book.  I wanted to share my news & wish you all luck with Twitter too!  Maybe you can score some cool winnings as well. While you're there look me up! @lifebycynthia.  Happy Tweeting.

I grew up watching Punky Brewster on Television. I can hardly believe that the spunky little girl played by Soleil Moon Frye is now a mommy of two!  Thanks to Twitter and @TargetBaby, I am happy to announce that I just won a copy of her new book Happy Chaos!  I'll be sure to share my review of the book.  I am a new mommy, so we shall see how long it takes me to find time to read!

Great Jazz Albums (IMO) #48

Mel Torme.  Mel Torme Swings Shubert Alley (1960).  The Velvet Fog was grossly under-appreciated as a jazz singer.  Perhaps because he sang with such unalloyed joy, he was often lumped into the same category as more saccharine pop singers of his generation when, in fact, he was one of the greatest interpreters of the Great American Songbook, far closer to Sinatra -- or perhaps Ella Fitzgerald -- when it came to pure skill and musicianship than to Perry Como and Andy Williams.  His work with the late George Shearing is well worthwhile, but my favorite album is Mel Torme Swings Shubert Alley.  With this collection of Broadway standards wonderfully arranged and backed by the Marty Paich Orchestra, Torme brilliantly shows off his virtuosity that one reviewer describes as "unrestrained enthusiasm." 

[Related posts:  Great Jazz Albums  #1 (Hank Mobley), #2 (Horace Silver), #3 (Sonny Rollins), #4 (Sonny Clark), #5 (Dexter Gordon), #6 (Cannonball Adderley); #7 (Bill Evans), #8 (McCoy Tyner), #9 (Clifford Brown), #10 (Sinatra), #11 (Monk), #12 (Kenny Dorham), #13 (Coltrane), #14 (Duke Ellington), #15 (Miles Davis), #16 (Wayne Shorter), #17 (Dinah Washington); #18 (Sarah Vaughan); #19 (Stan Getz); #20 (Blue Mitchell); #21 (Gene Ammons); #22 (Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers); #23 (Red Garland); #24 (Ella Fitzgerald); #25 (Charlie Parker); #26 (Art Pepper); #27 (Bud Powell); #28 (John Hicks); #29 (Kenny Barron); #30 (Coleman Hawkins); #31 (Count Basie);  #32 (Benny Carter w/ Ben Webster and Barney Bigard); #33 (Chet Baker); #34 (Thad  Jones); #35 (The Great Jazz Trio); #36 (Ahmad Jamal); #37 (Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond); #38 (Johnny Griffin and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis); #39 (Charles McPherson);  #40 (Harold Land); #41 Booker Little); #42 (Elis Regina & Antonio Carlos Jobim); #43 (Art Farmer & Benny Golson); #44 (Wynton Kelly); #45 (Tony Bennett/Bill Evans; # 46 (Barry Harris); #47 (Elmo Hope)]

Spoiled Blue Cheese?

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The sour and salty taste of blue cheese makes it an acquired taste for people with tolerant palates. Its pungent smell is often enough reason for most people not to try it. People who are afraid to even taste this cheese are missing their chance to enjoy the extraordinary flavor of this misunderstood cheese.

When this actor and his actress-girlfriend were invited to dinner, they were served salad with blue cheese. During dinner, a female guest noticed that the actress was picking the blue cheese out of her salad, so she asked her if she dislikes the taste. She was surprised when the actress told her that the blue cheese from the salad is "panis" or spoiled.

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