Genworth Financial has an interactive map to compare your state or region’s median cost of care to other areas in the country. Go here and click a state or region to view and calculate current and projected long term care costs. You actually can view the cost of care for...
Archives: July 2010
No Strong Scientific Evidence to Support Several Measures for Alzheimer’s Prevention
An independent panel of medical experts has determined that there is no strong scientific evidence to support several measures for the prevention of cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease. The panel said that there is ÛÏcurrently no evidence of even moderate scientific qualityÛ to support the notion that certain factors such...
Mom Always Liked You Best
A surprising look at who actually has the most likelihood of becoming a caregiver to their parents.
Liitle Known Reform Provisions Could Benefit You Sooner
According to Kaiser Health News, there are several lesser-known provisions of health reform that take effect in the following months. These provisions include eliminating patients’ co-payments for certain preventive services such as mammograms, giving the government more power to review health insurers’ premium increases and allowing states to expand Medicaid...
Learn to Fall More Safely (Does that make any sense at all?!)
From Mcknights – Researchers say seniors with osteoporosis can use martial arts training to learn to fall more safely. Testing the force of impact of a variety of different martial arts fall exercises, research subjects performed sideways and forward martial arts falls, which involve turning the fall into a rolling...
NBC Reaches Out to Boomers
You may want to check out NBC’s effort to reach the boomer and senior population with useful information. LifeGoesStrong.com is described as a site for mid-lifers who are living well and still going strong. They are aiming to provide the best information for the 45-65 set with a focus on...
Fraudulent Health Plans to Watch Out for as Reform Rolls Out
With healthcare reform comes fraud. Two sites to pay attention to so that you can protect yourself. At the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, there is a list of things to watch for as fraudulent health plans try to sell you their product. More detail at their site. åá Invasive sales...
NY Nursing Home is One to Emulate
I don’t usually plug nursing homes specifically but one caught my eye for a few programs they are doing. Island Nursing and Rehab Center in Holtsville, NY offers ian nteractive program which aims to link its residents more closely to their families/friends, by means of web-based internet technology. So essentially...
Senior Summer Safety – How to Cope with the Heat
With the death of a 92-year old woman in Philadelphia this week, it is important to check in on the elderly during these brutal weather conditions on the easy coast. According to researchers, the elderly should not be left in un-air-conditioned spaces for too long, and should be checked twice...
Live to be 100? It May Be in Your Genes.
Scientists studying the genomes of centenarians in New England say they have identified a set of genetic variants that predicts extreme longevity with 77 percent accuracy. The centenarians had just as many disease-associated variants as shorter-lived mortals, so their special inheritance must be genes that protect against disease, said the...