Amy Abbott

Amy Abbott brings three decades of healthcare experience with Pfizer, Daughters of Charity, Humana, and others to “A Healthy Age.” She is an award-winning writer, penning both health stories and a humor column. Spoiled as the only girl among six grandchildren, Amy learned early to relate to seniors. Now, as a senior herself, Amy enjoys time with family as well as writing, photography, genealogy, traveling, and volunteering. Her online home is www.amyabbottwrites.com .

AMY'S ARTICLES

• Five Ways to Improve Your Relationship with Your Adult Child (September 2016)

• Health Potpourri: What You May Not Know – And Should (November 2016)
• Older? Opioids Suggested? Investigate Options for Pain Relief (November 2016)

 

• Sleep Apnea Has Personal, Economic Costs (October 2016)
• Why Does Our Hair Turn Gray? (October 2016)

 

• Why the Placebo Response is Important for your Good Health (September 2016)

 

• Can Alternative Treatments Help with Pain? (August 2016)
• When Demon Dementia Comes Calling (August 2016)
• WHO Changes Course on Carcinogens in Coffee (August 2016)

 

• Is Your Loved One Drinking Too Much? (July 2016)

 

• Fighting Parkinson’s Symptoms by Thinking and Training Out of the Box (June 2016)
• Keeping Yourself Safe from Medical Errors (June 2016)
• When Does Collecting Become Hoarding? (June 2016)

 

• Planning for the Dreaded Colonoscopy (May 2016)
• Sepsis Brings Untimely Death of Patty Duke (May 2016)

 

• 8 Common Sense Suggestions on Enjoying Spring with the Grands (April 2016)
• Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, or Perhaps a Stately Oak? (April 2016)
• Where Have All the Doctors Gone? (April 2016)

 

• Fitness Day 2016: Do You Measure Up? (March 2016)
• Five Ways to Improve Your Emergency Room Visit (March 2016)
• Long-term Care Contentment May Indeed Be a Warm Puppy (March 2016)

 

• Five Ways to Sabotage Your Medical Appointment – Or How I Learned to Live (February 2016)
• To Drink or Not to Drink? Confusing Data on Alcohol Consumption Could Leave Us Either High or Dry (February 2016)
• Your Birthday Suit Deserves Year-round Care (February 2016)

 

• Surviving a Health Crisis as the Advocate (December 2015)