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Dear Carol: What can you do when your insurance company discontinues physical therapy because a senior patient is not making enough progress? My 66-year-old sister suffered a massive stroke and was in physical therapy for several weeks. Because she was not making enough progress in her physical therapy, her insurance company discontinued her sessions.

I got into the training for this thing on my own at first. Gradually, I went from just being able to cover two lengths of a pool to being able to swim for half an hour. I got stronger on a bike by riding with my husband, who can quickly leave me in the dust. I did a little running. Then I found a training group in my county and found out what coached training was really like.

Kessler and Roth describe other approaches besides their own that have been considered as ways to increase organ donation.

Dear Readers: Around September 30, those of you on Medicare will receive information about a change in the Medicare annual open enrollment dates. Open enrollment is when you can make changes in the plans and providers you've chosen for your Medicare D prescription drug coverage, your supplemental plan and Medicare Advantage if you've chosen that option.

Under a provision of the Affordable Care Act, the Medicare annual open enrollment period this year changes to Oct. 15 through Dec. 7.