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BROWNIES

Health screening to detect or prevent disease is very important and can save lives. One should discuss with their primary care physician the different recommendations based on age and risk factors and come up with an individual plan. If you have not been in to see your physician recently, do it now! COVID vaccination is of course, part of this important discussion. However, it is also important to live your life and not always be in a cage or feel trapped regarding healthy lifestyle behaviors. This video was created by Rag and his team at “my3d” on the Fiverr website.

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Grandpa

Older adult drivers as a group are more safe than middle-aged or younger drivers when you examine crash rates per year. However, there is a small subset of older drivers with a progressive dementia such as with Alzheimer Disease, that will eventually result in unsafe driving behaviors and a need to retire from driving. This story recounts my own personal and professional experiences with this challenging issue and one that most people can relate to at some point in their lives. Now that I am officially a Grandpa Carr, I know to appreciate my days of driving independence. The average older adult spends about 8 years without the ability to operate an automobile. We all should plan and prepare for this mobility transition. This video was done by Rag and his team at “my3d” on the Fiverr website.

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THE Owl and the PussyCat

Song lyrics and video based on the poem The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear that was published in 1871. The animated video was produced by Anastasia and she can be contacted at her Instragram webpage motion_spark. This poem was read to me by my mother as a child and although is usually classified as a nonsense verse, touches ones heart as a brief story of love, romance, and commitment. Even if a union with an owl and a cat is kind of odd...