Many factors involved in choosing a nursing home
Making the decision to move a loved one into a nursing home or other care setting is rarely easy. It can be an emotional...
Protecting our troops from financial predators
If you go to Wright-Patt Air Force Base in Dayton, you’ll see payday lenders and car title lenders set up on the streets around...
Take care to choose the perfect melon
Question: It’s the age-old question: How do you choose the best melon?Answer: Whether it’s watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew or other melons, summer days (or any...
Everything pharmaceutical companies hate
Earlier this year, my work to lower drug prices for Ohio families was described as combining “every policy idea drug lobbyists hate.” And that’s...
Looking back – from this day forward
For someone who has never been a bride, it is curious that I find weddings so intriguing. My parents eloped; so, there is no...
Patient-centered care shouldn’t be just a slogan
Recently I heard from a woman in rural Nebraska who told me about her 76-year-old father, who in late April had a lemon-size cancerous...
Everything pharmaceutical companies Hhate
Earlier this year, my work to lower drug prices for Ohio families was described as combining “every policy idea drug lobbyists hate.” And that’s...
How to survive caring for aging parents
For 11 years I pleaded with my challenging elderly father to allow a caregiver to help him with my ailing mother, but he always...
Boomer Blog: Showing my age – again
Every time I turned around last week, my age seemed to assert itself. My thoughts turned again and again to the past, as my...
Introducing Ohio’s next generation to manufacturing
A few years ago, I was talking to an official in the last administration about how to best support American manufacturing, and he remarked...