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Caregiving/In-Home Care
Elders
happier with Long-Term In-Home Care from
Family versus Professionals...
Most families, at some point, will struggle
with a decision about how best to provide
long-term care for an elderly parent. A new
study co-authored by University of Virginia
economics professor Steven Stern suggests
that you shouldn't assume a home-care
professional can better care for your parent
than you can...(click here to read
rest of story)
Environments for Aging/Surgery, Memory
Surgery not linked to
memory problems in older patients...
For years, it has been widely assumed that
older adults may experience memory loss and
other cognitive problems following
surgery... But a new study from researchers
at Washington University School of Medicine
in St. Louis questions those
assumptions...In fact, the researchers were
not able to detect any long-term cognitive
declines attributable to surgery in a group
of 575 patients they studied...(click
here to read rest of story)
National
Homecare Month
November is 'National
Homecare Month'- American Association for
Homecare urges patients and family
members to help save homecare during
November...
National Homecare
Month -- the American Association for
Homecare celebrates the thousands of
dedicated professionals who provide
cost-effective and consumer-preferred
homecare...Thanks to home medical equipment
and service providers, millions of seniors
and people with disabilities will share
Thanksgiving and other holidays with their
families in the comfort of their homes...(click
here to read rest of story)
The
Virtual Family/Telephone-Delivered Care
Telephone-Delivered
Care for treating Depression after CABG
Surgery appears to improve outcomes...Patients
who received telephone-delivered
collaborative care for treatment of
depression after coronary artery bypass
graft surgery reported greater improvement
in measures of quality of life, physical
functioning and mood than patients who
received usual care, according to a study in
the November 18 issue of JAMA..(click
here to read rest of story)
Environments for Aging/Lasting Memories
Scientists decipher
the formation of lasting memories...
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have
discovered a mechanism that controls the
brain's ability to create lasting memories.
In experiments on genetically manipulated
mice, they were able to switch on and off
the animals' ability to form lasting
memories by adding a substance to their
drinking water...The findings, which are
published in the scientific journal PNAS,
are of potential significance to the future
treatment of Alzheimer's and stroke...(click
here to read rest of story)
Environments for Aging/Dermatologists' Tips
for Aging
Dermatologists offer
advice from Head To Toe on what to expect
when you're Aging...Hair
loss, acne, rosacea and leg veins among the
more common medical dermatologic concerns
that come with age...Everyone expects their bodies to change as they
get older...From wrinkles and sagging skin
to brittle bones and aches and pains, the
aging process is inevitable...In addition,
there are a number of medical dermatologic
conditions that surface with age that can
cause people even more stress...Fortunately,
dermatologists can help diagnose and treat
these conditions no matter when they
strike...(click here to read rest of
story)
Role of
Pet Therapy
Recovering
with Four-Legged Friends requires less Pain
Medication...Adults
who use pet therapy while recovering from
total joint-replacement surgery require 50
percent less pain medication than those who
do not...These findings were presented at
the 18th Annual Conference of the
International Society of Anthrozoology and
the First Human Animal Interaction
Conference (HAI) in Kansas City, MO...(click
here to read rest of story)
Senior' Health/Erratic Heartbeats/No Danger
to Healthy Older Adults
Rapid, erratic
heartbeats: Exercise-linked Ventricular
Tachycardia is not a risk to healthy Older
Adults...Healthy,
older adults free of heart disease need not
fear that bouts of rapid, irregular
heartbeats brought on by vigorous exercise
might increase short- or long-term risk of
dying or having a heart attack, according to
a report by heart experts at Johns Hopkins
and the U.S. National Institute on Aging
(NIA)...(click here to read rest of
story)
Seniors' Health/Reduce Cancer Risk
10
Ways to reduce Cancer Risk...The risk of cancer can be dramatically reduced
through everyday choices about diet,
exercise and tobacco use, according to a
Special Report on Cancer Prevention in the
November issue of Mayo Clinic Women’s
HealthSource...(click here to
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