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Gwyneth Paltrow's ski slope collision left a man living as a self-imposed recluse, a US court has heard.Terry Sanderson said he was living another life following the incident which left him with broken ribs and brain injuries.Retired optometrist Mr Sanderson is suing the Oscar-winning actress over the collision at the Deer Valley resort in Utah in 2016, alleging she fell on top of him, leaving him with several broken ribs and a severe concussion.

A man who collided with Gwyneth Paltrow on a ski slope says he is living another life following the incident, which left him with severe injuries.Terry Sanderson said he had been told he should not ski again following the crash, which had caused the breakdown of his mental health and relationships.Retired optometrist Mr Sanderson is suing the Oscar-winning actress over the collision at the Deer Valley resort in Utah in 2016, alleging she fell on top of him, leaving him with several broken ribs and a severe concussion.

A woman born months after the end of the First World War is selling her house in Somerset after living there for 102 years, an estate agent has said.Nancy Joan Gifford is putting her three-bedroom house on the market having lived in it through the Second World War, the invention of television and the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, according to Somerset-based estate agent Holland and Odam.

By Jay Greene, Esq., CPA-
In the April 20, 2023, issue of the San Francisco Bay Times, I provided a detailed primer on elder care planning.For this issue, I offer a summary of some of the most critical areas to consider.As a brief introduction, I'm an estate planning attorney and I focus on elder care planning in my practice.

It was a regrettable mistake.But Kim Sylvester thought she was doing the right thing at the time.Her 80-year-old mother, Harriet Burkel, had fallen at her home in Raleigh, North Carolina, fractured her pelvis and gone to a rehabilitation center to recover.It was only days after the death of Burkel's husband, 82, who had moved into a memory care facility three years earlier.

Our advice columnists have heard it all over the years.Each Sunday, we dive into the Dear Prudie archives and share a selection of classic letters with our readers.Join Dear Prudence, for even more advice columns.Four years ago, my sweet and loving husband, the awesome father of our three children, was struck down by brain cancer and suffered brain trauma following emergency surgery.

A viral TikTok, which has 3.6 million likes as of March 7, has finally caught the attention of Rihanna and Jay-Z.In the short video shared on Feb. 22, a group of women from Arcadia Senior Living Bowling Green in Kentucky recreated part of Rihanna's set from her Feb. 12 Super Bowl Halftime Show.The TikTok shows the women - dressed in white like Rihanna's backup dancers and one resident decked in red like Rih's Super Bowl outfit - performing the viral "Rude Boy" portion of the halftime show and capturing the internet's collective heart in the process.

A woman was pronounced dead at the Water's Edge Rehab and Nursing Center in Port Jefferson, N.Y. but hours later, workers at a funeral home discovered she was alive and breathing.Google Maps/Screenshot by NPR Workers at a nursing home on Long Island, N.Y., pronounced an 82-year-old woman dead on Saturday but nearly three hours later, staff at a funeral home discovered the woman was still alive and breathing.

Sister Andre poses for a portrait at the Sainte Catherine Laboure care home in Toulon, southern France, Wednesday, April 27, 2022.The French nun who was believed to be the world's oldest person died at 118 in her sleep early Tuesday Jan.17, 2023, the spokesperson for her nursing home in Toulon, David Tavella, said Wednesday.

A French nun who was believed to be the world's oldest person has died a few weeks before her 119th birthday, the spokesperson for her nursing home in southern France said Wednesday.Lucile Randon, known as Sister Andre, was born in the town of Ales, southern France, on Feb. 11, 1904.She was also one of the world's oldest survivors of COVID-19.

Five people died of Legionnaires' disease over the summer at a New York City nursing home that had been cited repeatedly for improper maintenance of the cooling towers where the Legionella bacteria can spread, The New York Times reported.The outbreak at Amsterdam Nursing Home, a 409-bed facility in upper Manhattan, was the city's worst since 2015 when a cooling tower in the Bronx was blamed for an infection that caused 16 deaths.

On Saturday, the Carter Center announced that former US President Jimmy Carter will be receiving hospice care at his home in Georgia.After a series of short hospital stays, former US President Jimmy Carter today decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention, according to the statement.

A Pennsylvania woman who went missing more than 30 years ago and whose family believed she was dead has been found alive in Puerto Rico, resolving a decades-long mystery, the authorities said on Friday.The woman, Patricia Kopta, now 83, was found on the island after she shared tidbits about her past to nursing home employees who had been taking care of her for years, Chief Brian Kohlhepp of the Ross Township Police Department said at a news conference.

In this week's comments update, readers are discussing an opinion piece by Phineas Harper that argues "cities should not just build green transport but actively dismantle car infrastructure".
Harper suggests that instead of desperately trying to reduce road congestion in the short term, politicians should be using traffic as a tool for making urban transport more sustainable.

Two world wars and two pandemics are just a few of the many historic events witnessed by Sister Andre during her 118 years.Born Lucile Randon on 11 February 1904 in Ales, the world's oldest person has passed away in her sleep just a few weeks short of her 119th birthday.The only daughter in a Protestant family with three brothers, the year of her birth saw the opening of New York's first subway line, the beginning of work on the Panama Canal and the signing of the Entente Cordiale between Britain and France.

Hannes Keller, a Swiss mathematician and inspired amateur explorer, planned his audacious deep ocean dive for more than a year.In December 1962, he intended to descend deeper than anyone before him: 1,000 feet down, off Santa Catalina Island, near Los Angeles, in a diving bell called the Atlantis.If a man could go, for instance, to 1,000 feet down and do practical work, Mr. Keller wrote in The Sydney Morning Herald, then all the continental shelf zone could be explored, a total of more than 16 million square miles.

When Amazon released Alexa in 2014, the company had big dreams for the technology.The voice assistant, the company suggested, could succeed smartphones as the next essential consumer interface.Alexa, which was embedded in Amazon's voice-activated Echo smart speakers, soon became one of the most popular voice assistants, alongside Apple's Siri and Google's Assistant.

Former Army Sgt.Joel Gomez, whose story inspired his hometown to rally behind him, died Tuesdayfrom complications related to the catastrophic injuries he suffered in the Iraq War.Gomez, a 42-year-old Wheaton native, experienced kidney trouble after being diagnosed with pneumonia in his left lung earlier this month.

Question: I am qualified, by age and by time elapsed since my first Covid booster, for a fourth shot.But I want to make sure that my fourth shot will be one of the new dual-strain vaccines.Is this possible?French health authorities launched the autumn booster campaign on October 3rd, which includes newly authorised bivalent (dual-strain) vaccines  such as the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine adapted to BA.1, the Moderna vaccine adapted to BA.1, and the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine adapted to BA.4/5  which are designed to combat the Omicron variant.

In the years before losing his memory, Jose Arevalo, 83, would still dedicate some of his favorite norteño melodies to his wife."La Prieta Linda," said his wife, Berta Ruiz, 64, with a soft smile."The pretty dark-skinned girl."Though Arevalo - or Don Lupe, as most call him - lost his memory through the years, he never forgot her: the woman he met nearly 50 years ago and the one who took care of him through the good and bad times.

Former Army Sgt.Joel Gomez was buried with full military honors Tuesday, nearly two decades after he suffered catastrophic injuries during the Iraq War.The 42-year-old Wheaton native died Nov. 22 after developing pneumonia and kidney problems.He had been living with quadriplegia since breaking his spine in two places while on a combat mission in 2004.

It's a Wonderful Life, some 76 years after its release, remains a wonderful movie.The holiday classic, directed by Frank Capra, still touches the heart, evoking tears and laughs, all the while capturing the essence of what's good in the world and in our fellow humans.A recent re-watch confirms something else as well: the dialogue is as timely as ever.

Government policies aimed at curbing excessive use of powerful psychiatric drugs for dementia patients in nursing homes are probably having an unintended side effect: greater use of anti-seizure medications, a government report said Thursday.The evidence released by the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services indicates physicians specializing in nursing home care may have traded one controversial practice for another in response to regulatory scrutiny, seeking to sedate dementia patients with anticonvulsant medications rather than antipsychotics.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN SONG, by Bob Dylan Come with me, and let's stand in the rain of the clauses and sub-clauses in Bob Dylan's devious new book, The Philosophy of Modern Song.Dylan has rounded up 66 songs, from Bobby Darin's Mack the Knife and Webb Pierce's There Stands the Glass to Nina Simone's Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood and the Clash's London Calling, and he riffs on them.

Under the new rules set to be introduced on Saturday, residents of care homes will be expected to wear FPP2 masks in all common areas of the home, and will only be able to take them off in their bedrooms.READ ALSO: KEY POINTS - Germany's new Covid-19 rules for autumnSteep rise in casesAs the weather turns colder, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) has reported a steep rise in respiratory infections, including Covid-19.From Saturday, masks will no longer be required on commercial flights, though people will still be expected to wear an FFP2 mask on long-distance trains.