This guest post is contributed by Kitty Holman, who writes on the topics of nursing colleges.æ She welcomes your comments at her email Id: kitty.holman20@gmail.com. At some point, each and every one of us will face the end. Some of us are terrified of it. Others of us are comfortable...
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LTC Insurance Paying Claims Now
While many have the notion that long-term care insurance is both unaffordable and also possessed by few people, comes information, be it from the industry trade group, that suggests otherwise. The American Association for Long-Term Care Insurance reports that the nation’s 10 leading long-term care insurance companies paid over $10.8...
New Alzheimer’s Studies May Hold Hope But No Cure
According to USA Today two new studies add to scientific efforts to find more accurate ways to determine whether a person’s brain is on a path toward Alzheimer’s disease. In the first study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), older people without dementia whose blood showed...
States Awarded Grants for Background Checks
The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) has awarded $13 million to six states – Alaska, Conn, Del., Fla., Mo., R.I. – to perform technology-driven background checks for certain long-term care providers. This is a legislatively mandated Federal program, a part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The purpose...
New Bone Testing Method Can Help Treatment of Osteoporosis
æ A new method for identifying bones at high risk of fracture, and for monitoring the effectiveness of new bone-strengthening drugs and techniques, has been developed by scientists at the University of Cambridge. The method uses CT Imaging to accurately measure the thickness of the cortical bone, a key indicator...
Is Cognitive Decline Related to Education Level?
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality released information in January regarding cognitive disorders in the elderly. Cognitive disorders are conditions that hinder a person’s cognitive functioning including reasoning and memory. In 2007, the percentage of persons age 85 and older reporting one or more cognitive disorders (18.4 percent) was...
Lotsa Helping Hands Can Do Lotsa Good
In a recent blog I talked about a community service web site called See, Click, Fix. Through their platform, anyone can report and track non-emergency issues anywhere in the world via the internet. In the process this empowers citizens, community groups, media organizations and governments to take care of and...
Web Site Seeks to Match Older Workers with Employers
A new web site, Age and Experience is attempting to engage employers to use older people in the workforce. They launched the site because of their frustration with what the perceive happens to workers of a certain age – furloughed, discriminated against, etc. The organizers run their own manufacturing business...
See Click Fix – An Idea for Aging
See, Click, Fix is an interesting societal experiement that connects citizens to each other and city hall to get things fixed. Through their platform, anyone can report and track non-emergency issues anywhere in the world via the internet. In the process this empowers citizens, community groups, media organizations and governments...
Sing a New Song – Songwriters Work Educational Foundation
I came across a great find that might be of interest to you. Songwriting Works䋢 Educational Foundation serves hundreds of elders, families and practitioners by pairing professional songwriters with elders to compose original songs. To date, 3,000 participants have composed 300 songs. In their workshops, participants collaborate with professional songwriters...