Summer Cooling Tips for Senior Citizens

For senior citizens, summer can be quite a challenging period – besides dehydration, the heat can also trigger all sorts of illnesses – that is why, whether they are living alone or with a carer, it is important that they are kept cool and hydrated at all...

A New Series: Faces of Occupational Therapy

NJOTA Newletter Volume V Issue 5 Gregg Frank has been an occupational therapist for twenty years. He graduated from Boston University with a BS in OT in 1989 and has been working as an OT since that time. Two and a half years ago, while working in an outpatient...

What is Multiple Sclerosis (MS)?

Worldwide there are 2.3 million people diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS).  It is estimated 1 million of these people are in the United States.1    MS is an immune-mediated disease (IMID), that results from the immune system overreacting and attacking the myelin...