My mom is in her early 70s and has been diagnosed with advancing Alzheimer’s disease. She is very fit and lives at home with caregivers helping her. She seems very bored with her limited activities and is starting to exhibit undesirable behaviors of aggression and agitation. Do you have any suggestions to make her life…
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Tech
Cannatech is new focus for California Israel Chamber of Commerce
After years of focusing on promoting Israeli high-tech startups in the Silicon Valley, the California Israel Chamber of Commerce is expanding its scope to…
Bay Area
East Bay parents trying to save twins from rare Ashkenazi disease
Gabi Ilinetsky was a happy new mother, overjoyed with her 3-month-old twins, Yoel and Yael. But she was starting to get an odd feeling about Yoel’s…
Bay Area
4-year-old Alameda girl in need of bone marrow donor
Norah is only 4 years old, but a lot has happened in her short life. “I wake up crying some days,” said her father, Alameda resident Zachary…
Talking With ...
This doctor wants to fix how we die
Shoshana Ungerleider, 38, is concerned about dying. Not her own death, but that of others. A physician practicing internal medicine at California Pacific…
Mixed & Matched
My daughter won’t circumcise her son — what can I do?
Dear Dawn: My pregnant daughter just learned her baby is a boy. She and I just had an animated discussion because she announced to me she doesn’t plan to…
Local Voice
Overcoming breast cancer survivor’s guilt
I’m going to let you in on my little secret. I had breast cancer. There, I said it out loud — something that I don’t readily share. I waited 10…
Unions
With her health deteriorating, a ‘miracle’ wedding
The fact that Vy Nguyen was able to walk down the aisle at her Oct. 7 wedding to be joined with Andrew Koller was something of a miracle. But many would…
Books
Local author's new novel of the opioid crisis
The books section is supported by a generous donation from Anne Germanacos. “The Boatbuilder,” the first novel by Bay Area native Daniel Gumbiner, has…