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Aging doesn’t have to mean moving away from people and places we know. Keeping patients at home for longer periods while avoiding loneliness is one of our specialties. Enjoy the article and see our information below it. _____________________________________ Loneliness — the unpleasant feeling of emptiness or desolation — can creep in and cause suffering to […]
June 18, 2012
Older individuals can be especially vulnerable to financial abuse or exploitation at the hands of others. Individuals with physical or cognitive impairments are at even greater risk. The source of mistreatment may be a stranger or someone an individual trusts — even a family member. As a caregiver, it is important that you are alert to […]
June 18, 2012
As an older American you are the best and first line of defense against elder abuse in this country. Don’t shut your eyes to it, it can happen to you, your friends and your family and it ruins lives. You have saved a life time to be able to care for yourself in old age, […]
June 18, 2012
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Has your memory failed you today, such as struggling to recall a word that’s “on the tip of your tongue?” If so, you’re not alone. New University of Michigan research indicates that “tip-of-the-tongue” errors happen often to adults ages 65-92. In a study of 105 healthy, highly-educated older adults, 61 percent reported this […]
June 16, 2012
If you have an elderly person you care about here is an important point to consider. This can happen to a loved one and you will not know until it is to late because none of us like to feel humiliated. One of the best ways to counteract the rip-off artists is to promote frequent […]
June 14, 2012
This article speaks of a very real danger for those older Americans living in urban areas. Staying active as we age is important for good health and walking is easy and inexpensive. What happens when we lose confidence that we can walk around our neighborhood safely? Fear becomes a real adversary as we grow older, we worry about losing independence, […]
June 12, 2012
Sometimes the cost of even a mild cognitive impairment can be more than we imagine. All he wanted was a battery replacement for his watch, and a small gift for his wife of 65 years. So how did 90-year-old Maurice (“Maury”) Branch end up purchasing a $25,000 diamond bracelet? That’s what his children want to […]
June 8, 2012
Too many people are being exposed to life-threatening infections because clinicians fail to follow safe practices when administering medicine by injection or infusion. According to a recent study in Medical Care, the journal of the American Public Health Association, at least 130,000 patients were put at risk between 2001 and 2011 for pathogens including hepatitis and HIV. As the […]
June 5, 2012
Another dispatch from the recent American Geriatrics Society scientific conference in Seattle: Caring for an elderly, ailing spouse is an unimaginably difficult task, especially when the caregivers are elderly themselves. But wives fare worse, physically and emotionally, than husbands, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, have found. Women tend to marry men older than […]
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June 21, 2012
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