Dr Garfinkel, specialist in Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, has excellent success with prescribing the appropriate minimum of medicines necessary for the wellbeing of the elderly recognizing that many of them are over medicated.

The Playback Theater Company, founded in 1975 by Jonathan Fox and Jo Salas, developed into non-scripted theater for working within troubled communities. Akin to therapy, this concept spread world-wide. Theater, dance, music and art are used as tools of healing. Here in Israel it is now reaching the “Golden Oldies” – Retirees at the Tel Hai Day Center, giving participants the forum to express themselves in a secure setting.

Victims of breast cancer who have benefitted from this newly established charity write of their gratitude. Shari Mendes, the founder, appeals for help in fundraising and administering this charity.

Eylon Nuphar relates the story of her diagnosis of breast cancer, which her mother, her grandmother and her sister all had. She speaks of how she made every day work for her throughout the diagnosis and the ensuing treatment, working and thriving throughout the experience.

Qigong is a gentle martial arts theory from the East designed to improve health, increase energy, revive body and mind and a host of other positive elements that lead to harmony between body and spirit.

Dramatic behavioral changes, confusion, strange remarks out of context and imagining things, could be signs of suffering from a brain tumor. Immediate action needs to be taken, as brain tumors can grow quickly. Honey Stollman gives us a compelling account of what happened to her husband.

The necessity of checking the levels of the ‘sunshine vitamin’ in ones blood is clearly explained. One may need to take supplements on doctors advice but can also easily overdose, with adverse effects.

Clinical psychologist Eli Karlen discusses anxiety. Is it a destructive power that can limit a person’s confidence? Or can it be used positively, as a challenge to move on in one’s life.