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Dear 101ElderCare.com Readers,

Welcome to the Senior Care Newsletter (4/29/2009). In this edition we have included news, articles and videos. You can find more resources on our website: 101ElderCare.com.

Senior Care News

AGS “Get Up And Go” Falls Prevention Program To Offer Free Falls Risk Screening, Health Education And Information To Older Adults
More than 20,000 visitors — of all ages — flock to Chicago’s historic Navy Pier every day. To help ensure that older visitors don’t fall, while visiting this leading tourist destination, or elsewhere, the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) and its Foundation for Health in Aging (FHA) will be offering seniors free falls screening, and falls prevention and other senior health information on Saturday, May 2. (More)

Monitoring Anticoagulant Patients Using Voice Response System
Interactive voice response systems may help improve monitoring of patients taking anticoagulants such as warfarin while reducing the workload of clinical staff, found a study by Ottawa researchers in CMAJ. Oral anticoagulants are prescribed to approximately 5% of seniors and require diligent monitoring to avoid serious adverse events such as blood clots, hemorrhages and death. (More)

Cryptosporidiosis under-recognized in the elderly (Reuters)
Reuters - Cryptosporidiosis — an illness characterized by diarrhea, fever, and chills — appears to be under-reported in the U.S. elderly population, Massachusetts-based researchers report. (More)

Medicare Change May Impact Black Kidney Patients (HealthDay)
HealthDay - THURSDAY, April 23 (HealthDay News) — Black kidney patients may have more difficulty getting dialysis under a new Medicare payment policy, researchers warn. (More)

Pain relievers do not prevent Alzheimer’s: study (AFP)
Anti-inflammatory pain relievers such as Ibupofren (Advil, Motril) and naproxen (Aleve) may delay the onset of Alzheimer’s but do not prevent it, according to a new medical study. (More)

Senior Care Videos

Home Instead Senior Care - Become a CAREGiver

As a CAREGiver, you are able to use the attributes that make you unique to bring a better quality of living to seniors. Home Instead CAREGivers often become like a surrogate family member to the seniors they serve. These seniors will rely on you for companionship and the activities of living such as light housekeeping, meal preparation, transportation, errands and much needed companionship. Home Instead Senior Care Offers: + A Schedule You Choose + Part-time, Full-time, Days, Evenings …

Senior Care Articles

Budgeting For Senior Care - How Much Does Elder Care Cost?
Effective retirement planning must include budgeting for senior care costs. Medicare only covers short-term hospital and nursing home stays (up to 120 days) and does not provide for care in the home. Extremely low-income seniors with minimal assets (most states allow for no more than $2,000 in assets) will qualify for Medicaid care which will provide for long-term care in a nursing home only. Learn about senior care options and costs before you need them so that you can effectively plan ahead. (More)

Elderly Parents - 3 Things to Keep in Mind When They Move In
Lively parents become elderly parents. That’s the way things are. If they move in with you, read on an learn 3 things that you have to be careful about for all parties to gain. (More)

Golden Ways of Caring for the Elderly
All of us share similar concerns about health care for our parents, grandparents and loved ones when they reach the retirement age and as long as they survive after that. If you have an elderly member… (More)

Expressive Arts Therapy For Elderly Patients
“I just got all around the music and let it get all around me.” This is the way Lorna Smith, a resident at Hazel I. Findlay Country Manor in Saint Johns, Michigan, described her experience during one of the regular music therapy sessions offered by music therapist and gerontologist Dr. Stephen Hale. (More)

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