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Senior Care Newsletter (6/25/2009)

Posted in Uncategorized on June 25th, 2009 by 101eldercare – Comments Off

Dear 101ElderCare.com Readers,

Welcome to the Senior Care Newsletter (6/25/2009). In this edition we have included news, articles and videos. You can find more resources on our website: 101ElderCare.com.

Senior Care News

Stay Upbeat, Active to Keep the Mind Young (HealthDay)
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, June 24 (HealthDay News) — To stave off the mental decline associated with old age, engage in intellectually challenging activities, maintain a positive outlook and keep up your social life. (More)

U.S. pursues crackdown on healthcare fraud (Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. authorities on Wednesday announced they had charged 53 people with Medicare fraud and vowed to pursue a crackdown on schemes that cost taxpayers billions of dollars a year. (More)

Public health plan could save money faster: policy group (Reuters)
Reuters - A nationwide health insurance exchange that includes a Medicare-like government option could save $1.8 trillion more than if only private plans are offered, a prominent private U.S. health policy group said on Wednesday. (More)

Care Management Reduces Depression And Suicidal Thoughts In Older Primary Care Patients
Depression in older adults too often goes unrecognized and untreated, resulting in untold misery, worsening of medical illness, and early death. A new study has identified one important remedy: Adding a trained depression care manager to primary care practices can increase the number of patients receiving treatment, lead to a higher remission rate of depression, and reduce suicidal thoughts. (More)

Senior Care Articles

Emergency Preparedness For the Safety and Protection of Our Elders
You pride yourself on being relatively safety conscious. You don’t skydive, race cars, mountain climb, bungee jump, or participate in other “Bucket List” activities that might possibly void your life insurance. You don’t even ride on roller coasters, just in case there is a clause banning it buried deep within the fine print. You gave up water slides years ago. (More)

Prevent Nursing Home Theft
You try not to think about your loved ones valuables and belongings being at risk for theft while they are residing in an assisted living facility. The harsh reality is that theft is a common occurrence at nursing homes and assisted care facilities. (More)

Having the Difficult Conversation
Having the Difficult Conversation By Carolyn L. Rosenblatt, RN., B.S.N., Attorney at Law Why is it so hard to talk to our aging parent about difficult subjects, such as getting older, needing help, … (More)

Emergency Preparedness for the Safety and Protection of Our Elders
You pride yourself on being relatively safety conscious. You don’t skydive, race cars, mountain climb, bungee jump, or participate in other “Bucket List” activities that might possibly void y… (More)

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Senior Care Newsletter (6/18/2009)

Posted in Uncategorized on June 18th, 2009 by 101eldercare – Comments Off

Dear 101ElderCare.com Readers,

Welcome to the Senior Care Newsletter (6/18/2009). In this edition we have included news, articles and videos. You can find more resources on our website: 101ElderCare.com.

Senior Care News

Flamingo Hoist Causes Elderly And Disabled To “Drop To The Floor”
A hoist used in healthcare facilities as well as private homes across the country could cause an elderly or disabled person to “drop to the floor” risking death or serious injury according to a Field Safety Notice (FSN) issued by the manufacturer. The old design of the spreader bar on the Flamingo mobile hoist could be incorrectly attached via an open hook and therefore come off the hoist jib as it lifts the occupant. (More)

Statins Don’t Lower Risk Of Pneumonia In Elderly
Taking popular cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, such as Lipitor? (atorvastatin), does not lower the risk of pneumonia. That’s the new finding from a study of more than 3,000 Group Health patients published online on June 16 in advance of the British Medical Journal’s June 20 print issue. (More)

Improve Communication With Your Healthcare Practitioner With The AGS Foundation For Health In Aging’s New Health Tip Sheet
Good communication between patients and their healthcare practitioners is essential to good care. To help older adults better communicate with their healthcare providers, the American Geriatrics Society’s Foundation for Health in Aging (FHA) has released a new, easily understandable tip sheet for older people and their caregivers. (More)

Drug May Stem Slide Into Alzheimer’s for Some (HealthDay)
HealthDay - MONDAY, June 15 (HealthDay News) — Depression might increase the chance of developing Alzheimer’s disease among those already experiencing memory problems, a new study says. (More)

Senior Care Articles

Products For the Elderly - Entertainment Products For Seniors
As people get older, there are fewer and fewer activities they can do. Many people are not able to go for a drive or go to the gym like younger people. So many family members take entertainment and the access to it for granted. In order to make your loved one as comfortable and entertained as possible, there are products for the elderly that are designed to keep them entertained. One of the activities that people love to do is read. Whether it is the newspaper, a magazine or a favorite novel, this simple task becomes more difficult as people get older. To ensure they still can read their favorite book, there are magnifiers they can use. (More)

Independent Care Products - Senior Electronics
As your loved ones get older, you try to find ways to make everyday tasks easier for them. You know how important their independence is to them, so you do not want to take that away. This is why there are independent care products that help seniors do these ordinary tasks that have become more difficult. Many of these products help make using electronics easier. A great product that fits well in any senior home is a phone. The problem they have is that they cannot read the buttons. These phones have magnified numbers so even the hardest of seeing person can read them. (More)

Voice Activated Products - Keeping Seniors Safe
It is a big deal for seniors to live at home by themselves. If your loved one is living at home alone, you most likely worry about their safety. A way you can remedy this problem is by using the many voice activated products available these days. (More)

Medical Hydrotherapy? - Could It Be The Miracle Cure for Seniors?
I spent the last two years interviewing hundreds of seniors and researching how they treat and manage their pains, illnesses and other health and mobility related problems, and, how they can use water… (More)

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Senior Care Newsletter (6/10/2009)

Posted in Uncategorized on June 10th, 2009 by 101eldercare – Comments Off

Dear 101ElderCare.com Readers,

Welcome to the Senior Care Newsletter (6/10/2009). In this edition we have included news, articles and videos. You can find more resources on our website: 101ElderCare.com.

Senior Care News

Sleep Deprivation Affects Older Adults Less Than Younger Adults During Cognitive Performance
According to a research abstract that will be presented on Wednesday, June 10, at SLEEP 2009, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, older adults are able to retain better cognitive functioning during sleep deprivation than young adults. (More)

Seniors Seek Help With Medicare’s ‘Doughnut Hole’
Senior and elderly advocate groups are calling on Congress to get rid of the “doughnut hole” in Medicare’s drug benefit as part of the larger efforts to reform health care, according to The Dallas Morning News. The “doughnut hole” forces millions of Medicare beneficiaries to bear the full cost of their drugs for a period of time once they exceed $2,700. (More)

Life-Saving Cardiac Rehabilitation
Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death worldwide and a major driver of medical and economic costs, especially among older adults. It has long been established that cardiac rehabilitation improves survival, at least in middle-aged, low- and moderate-risk white men. (More)

Exercise, Education Keep You Sharp in Old Age (HealthDay)
HealthDay - MONDAY, June 8 (HealthDay News) — If you want your mind to stay sharp when you’re 90, here’s what you’ll need to do. (More)

Senior Care Articles

Caregiver Needed? Top 6 Reasons a Family Caregiver Contract Makes Sense
In the past, when a family caregiver needed to provide increased amount of time and care, to keep the aging senior at home, it was expected that they would do so in spite of any financial or emotional sacrifice. Aging baby boomers are changing that expectation and many are doing it out of necessity. (More)

Do You Have an Elderly Parent Living With You? - You Need This Device
Do you have an elderly parent living with you? Are you constantly on edge in case they start wandering out into the neighborhood unnoticed? This is a common problem for people caring for elderly parents in their own home. As age advances then so does forgetfulness, dementia and Alzheimer’s. No longer can they be trusted to walk unaided in the street alone. You fear every open door means that they have slipped out unsupervised and are loose on the street in all kinds of danger (More)

Aging Baby Boomer Generation Alert - Is There a Family Care Giver Contract in Your Future?
The aging baby boomer is experiencing a phenomenon never experienced by past generations. Caregiver needed - this is a wake up call for the aging baby boomer generation. (More)

Women’s Guide to Long-Term Care Insurance Protection
Long-term care planning is vitally important to women. Women have a far greater chance of needing long-term care at some point in their lives. Women also enjoy a significant savings benefit that few are aware of. (More)

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Senior Care Newsletter (6/3/2009)

Posted in Uncategorized on June 3rd, 2009 by 101eldercare – Comments Off

Dear 101ElderCare.com Readers,

Welcome to the Senior Care Newsletter (6/3/2009). In this edition we have included news, articles and videos. You can find more resources on our website: 101ElderCare.com.

Senior Care News

Relationship Between Bone Density And Erosion In Arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), the most common form of inflammatory arthritis, affects almost three percent of people over age 65. RA patients experience pain, functional limitations and two forms of disabling bone disease: focal erosions and osteoporosis. After five years of disease, up to 50 percent of RA patients show evidence of focal erosions and RA doubles the risk of osteoporosis and fractures. (More)

Commonly Used Medications May Produce Cognitive Impairment In Older Adults
Many drugs commonly prescribed to older adults for a variety of common medical conditions including allergies, hypertension, asthma, and cardiovascular disease appear to negatively affect the aging brain causing immediate but possibly reversible cognitive impairment, including delirium, in older adults according to a clinical review now available online in the Journal of Clinical Interventions in Aging, a peer reviewed, open access publication. (More)

Light-Treatment Device Developed To Improve Sleep Quality In The Elderly
Sleep disturbances increase as we age. Some studies report more than half of seniors 65 years of age or older suffer from chronic sleep disturbances. Researchers have long believed that the sleep disturbances common among the elderly often result from a disruption of the body’s circadian rhythms - biological cycles that repeat approximately every 24 hours. (More)

Plaques, Tangles in Brain Don’t Always Lead to Alzheimer’s (HealthDay)
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, May 27 (HealthDay News) — New British research provides more evidence that the bits of gunk in the brain known as plaques and tangles don’t necessarily lead to Alzheimer’s disease, as many experts have long believed. (More)

Senior Care Articles

SEVEN SIGNS OF CAREGIVER DEPRESSION
Watching a friend or loved one slowly sink into the gloom of dementia or Alzheimer?s can also cause depression in the caregiver. Research has shown that these caregivers are twice as likely to suffer… (More)

Dealing with the Emotional Stress of Finding a Nursing Home
When our parent?s grow older, a fact of life is that your responsibility as their child is to take care of them as they had taken care of you when you were a child. While it is a harsh reality, as we … (More)

Caregiver Or Nursing Staff Can Write Life Reviews
People what are nearing end of life have a deep desire to know their live has had meaning and they have not lived in vain. The greatest gift one can bestow on humanity is to teach and share wisdom. This is a way to insure that while your body may leave this earth, your words will linger. Caregivers, family, medical personnel and social support staff have an opportunity to help the ill person to do a short life review. (More)

Senior Care Facilities - Offering Nurses a Stable Future
As the Occupational Outlook guide indicates, being a nurse is currently one of the most lucrative and fastest growing professions. One field of nursing forecast to have an increased level of demand is gerontology. As people now age faster, the average number of geriatric patients being admitted to nursing homes and hospitals has now grown. Based on a survey, patients aged 65 and above compose 60% of adult primary visits, 48% of in-patient admissions, and 85% of nursing home residents. (More)

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