The purpose of any rehab facility is to assist persons in regaining their degree of independence following an illness, accident, or surgery. The elderly can benefit from rehabilitation, resulting in more freedom, enhanced physical prowess and mobility, cognitive and interpersonal skills, and a better quality of life. Additionally, it is frequently required to address difficulties…
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Seniors living at home experience a variety of complications that can make daily life difficult. Learn tips and tricks to help your loved one live independently with ease. What is Senior Home Health Care? Senior Home Health Care or homecare as it is sometimes spelled, home health care agencies, and geriatric care management services are…
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As we grow older, we need to plan for the future. Planning for retirement involves foresight and careful strategic planning. It is always best to work with a financial planner and even an investment adviser who can help us put our goals for our retirement into a workable plan. There are many important decisions to…
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Constipation is a common gastrointestinal problem which is often misdiagnosed and under-treated. It affects up to 50% of older adults in the community and 74% of nursing home residents. By definition, two or more of the following symptoms must be experienced for at least three months: straining, lumpy or hard stools, sensation of incomplete evacuation,…
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Forty-six Americans die every day from an overdose of prescription painkillers, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Healthcare providers wrote 259 million prescriptions for opioid painkillers in 2012. “That’s enough for every American adult to have their own bottle of pills,” CDC director Tom Frieden, MD, said….
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Assume that Cynthia Brown’s audience, as she addressed the American Geriatrics Society’s annual scientific meeting in Texas this month, already knew that hospitalized older adults spend too much time in bed. Her listeners — geriatricians, nurses, administrators — had probably observed for themselves how quickly elderly patients become deconditioned, how even a few days of…
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Cancer and heart disease are bigger killers, but Alzheimer’s is the most expensive malady in the U.S., costing families and society $157 billion to $215 billion a year, according to a new study that looked at this in unprecedented detail. The biggest cost of Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia isn’t drugs or other medical…
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Now Vermont has joined the misguided movement toward physician-assisted suicide. Nearly 30 years ago, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “Terminator” character made famous the phrase “I’ll be back,” the implacable cyborg assassin’s response to a setback. Today, similarly relentless terminators are among us, also with a deadly mission: to move America toward acceptance of physician-assisted suicide. On Monday,…
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CHICAGO – An active lifestyle positively influences brain volume in older adults with or without Alzheimer’s disease, a magnetic resonance imaging study revealed. Among 876 individuals, the average gray matter volume was 663 mL in those with an active lifestyle, compared with 628 mL in those with an inactive lifestyle. That equates to a significant…
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I read this the other day in “Heart Insight” and thought it was worth passing on. Peter Ross remembers the day when his organization received a call from a distressed woman who needed assistance placing her mother in a nursing home. “Her mother had no medical problems,” recalls Ross, CEO of Senior Helpers, a national…
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