Senior Care Newsletter (11/2/2009)
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Senior Care News
Sleep Disturbances Improve After Retirement
A study in the Nov.1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that retirement is followed by a sharp decrease in the prevalence of sleep disturbances. Findings suggest that this general improvement in sleep is likely to result from the removal of work-related demands and stress rather than from actual health benefits of retirement. Results show that the odds of having disturbed sleep in the seven years after retirement were 26 percent lower (adjusted odds ratio of 0. (More)
Surgery, Illness Not Linked to Mental Decline in Seniors (HealthDay)
HealthDay - FRIDAY, Oct. 30 (HealthDay News) — Illness and surgery don’t contribute to long-term cognitive decline in seniors and don’t accelerate progression of dementia, researchers say. (More)
Boston Medical Center’s Elders Living At Home Program Receives Grant From Admninistration On Aging
The Elders Living at Home Program (ELAHP) at Boston Medical Center has received a three-year, $864,400 Aging in Place Grant from the Administration on Aging (AoA). The grant will be used to develop, implement and evaluate an intervention to support formerly homeless elders who have already transitioned to housing but need support to maintain it. ELAHP was one of 14 recipients nationwide to receive this grant from the AoA’s new Community Innovations for Aging in Place Initiative. (More)
$16 Million Grant From State Stem Cell Agency To Speed Research Of Stem Cell-Based Treatment For Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Physician-researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) received a nearly $16 million grant from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to fund the development of a stem cell-based treatment for age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of vision loss and blindness among the elderly. Mark Humayun, M.D., Ph.D. (More)
Does Diabetes Slow Alzheimer’s? (HealthDay)
HealthDay - MONDAY, Oct. 26 (HealthDay News) — A French study finding that people with Alzheimer’s disease and diabetes have less memory loss than those without diabetes should be regarded with caution, American experts say. (More)
Senior Care Articles
Walk in Tub - Freedom to the Disabled
A walk in tub serves to be a perfect answer imparting freedom to bath without any help or dependency. Only those who have ever experienced such a situation either on themselves or with their near ones can very well understand its function and importance. (More)
Family Senior Care - Make Room For Grandma
So you’ve decided that your elderly mother is no longer safe living alone but you don’t want to place her in a nursing home. It seems the best solution is to move her in with you and your family. But how do you get your family on board with the idea and make room for Grandma? (More)
Planning the Purchase of Nursing Home Furniture
Nursing homes contain a great deal of furniture as they normally serve a substantial number of residents. Where any home or business needs high quality furniture of various kinds, it is perhaps of the utmost importance that nursing home furniture is comfortable, given the amount of time people will spend sitting or lying on them. In this article we’ll look at the main types of furniture that should be considered. (More)
Understanding a Silver Alert
It is very difficult to keep in touch with every person in a highly populated country like the United States. Keeping track of every individual is even more difficult and requires the effort of all people in the community to help. Communication technology is crucial here, and the AMBER Alert system was one of the results in using public communication to help find the whereabouts of children. The success of the AMBER alert led to other alert systems like the Silver Alert (More)
Helping the elderly live more independently with aids for the elderly products
It can be much more difficult in later life for people to carry out everyday tasks that they still wish to do as they could before, staying independent as much as possible and maintaining dignity. Unf… (More)
Aging and Age Related Change | Elder Guide
Eight Areas of Age-Related Change 1. Brain: Memory and Alzheimer’s Disease Many people become anxious about developing memory impairments as they transition into being senior citizens and begin t… (More)
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