Elder Care News 12/2008 (Page 9)

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Providing for our elderly, not withholding care from our aged infirm, is an ideal whose time dates to antiquity. Yet the fear of many today, as we watch one state after another approve euthanasia, is that the coming tide of socialized medicine will eventually mean the denial of health care services to the elderly and infirm under the guise of health care savings. (Dec 30, 2008)

Traditional nursing homes with shared rooms in an institutional hospital-like setting are a model of care that's becoming outdated. (Dec 30, 2008)

Long Island health officials are investigating a gastrointestinal illness that has swept through at least four elder care institutions and sent dozens to local hospital emergency rooms this month. READ MORE>> (Dec 30, 2008)

T oo many beneficiaries of the military direct-care health system still can't get timely appointments, reach doctors after hours or establish a close family-doctor relationship with a single military physician or group. (Dec 30, 2008)

What does pass will have a big role for health IT, with industry leaders already advising the President-elect on incentives for adoption. by Dana Blankenhorn (Dec 30, 2008)

The city has delayed implementation of a plan to reorganize its senior centers following the resignation of a top official and widespread protest from execs and the elderly. (Dec 30, 2008)

About 120 people gathered Monday night at Dominican Hospital to help President-elect Barack Obama reform health care. (Dec 30, 2008)

BEAUFORT - The caregiver of an elderly Carteret County woman has been arrested on charges related to an alleged incident of abuse. (Dec 30, 2008)

Chemtura Corporation (NYSE:CEM) announced that it had today entered into an amendment and waiver agreement with the lenders under its senior credit facility, as well as with the providers of its U.S. accounts receivable securitization facility. (Dec 31, 2008)

La-Z-Boy employees at the plant in Tremonton received a surprise in April when officials announced that the 30-year old plant would be shutting down and some of their jobs would be heading to Mexico. (Dec 31, 2008)

Shanghai spent about 659.32 million yuan (about 96.96 million U.S. dollars) to care for the aged this year, said a local government official on Tuesday. Municipal government spokesman Chen Qiwei said homes for the aged added 10,030 beds at a cost of 524.8 million yuan, bringing total beds to 80,000. The city also built 100 new day-care centers for the aged at a cost of 134.52 million yuan. There ... (Dec 31, 2008)

Instituting a hiring freeze and postponing a few new initiatives, the MetroWest Community Health Care Foundation has announced a new round of grants despite losing nearly a third of its endowment in the stock market collapse. PDF: MetroWest Community Health grants (Dec 31, 2008)

WASHINGTON - Problems in the US health care system have only grown more severe since a series of meetings on the topic more than two years ago yielded few results. So President-elect Barack Obama's transition team has set up a new round of public sessions it hopes will translate into real changes this time. (Dec 31, 2008)

Starting Friday December 19th at 12:01am, state troopers of the Texas Department of Public Safety will be participating in Operation CARE - Life Saver Weekend.    This operation will discontinue at midnight, Sunday, December 21st.  Operation C.A.R.E. (Combined Accident Reduction Effort) is a special emphasis program designed to reduce accidents, deaths, and injuries and to encourage strict ... (Dec 31, 2008)

More than 300 disabled senior citizens will enter the new year on a waiting list for basic home care services, not knowing when or whether the assistance might arrive, because of state budget cuts. (Dec 31, 2008)

(ARA) - If you've got a senior citizen in your life suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's disease, you probably worry about them wandering away and not being able to find their way home. A new law that addresses this issue is under consideration right now. (Dec 31, 2008)

Work Options Group, a Boulder-based provider of corporate-sponsored backup child and elder care for employees, said Tuesday it was acquired by Bright Horizons Family Solutions of Boston. The companies said their combination will create the largest network of center-based and in-home backup child and elder care in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. (Dec 31, 2008)

The Healthcare business of Thomson Reuters recently named the hospital grouping comprised of Memorial Hermann Heart and Vascular Institute – Southwest, Memorial Hermann Northwest Hospital, Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital and Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Hospital to the nation's 100 Top Hospitals for cardiovascular care list. Only 30 community hospitals across the nation were selected for ... (Dec 31, 2008)

Problems in the health care system have only grown more severe since a series of health care meetings more than two years ago yielded few results. (Dec 31, 2008)

Problems in the health care system have only grown more severe since a series of health care meetings more than two years ago yielded few results. So President-elect Barack Obama's transition team has set up a new round of public sessions it hopes will translate into real changes this time. (Dec 31, 2008)

Wed, Dec 31, 2008 (1:51 a.m.) Problems in the health care system have only grown more severe since a series of health care meetings more than two years ago yielded few results. (Dec 31, 2008)

HELEN OUTLAND BEAUFORT — Police here have charged a woman with elder abuse after the 80-year-old woman she was caring for was found lying on the bathroom floor. (Dec 31, 2008)

While San Francisco has made progress this year in reducing ambulance delays, emergency medical experts have raised questions about the quality of pre-hospital care delivered to patients. The city's 911 ambulance staff, experts say, is insufficiently trained... (Dec 31, 2008)

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