The National Council on Aging (NCOA) has launched a new site that can help you find information, tools, and consumer advice to use and protect the value in your home. Get custom advice for your life situationÛÓeven if you need help now. It was created by the nonprofit National Council...
Archives: April 2012
Coming Out of the Closet with Caregiving
The AARP Public Policy Institute issued a paper entitled: A Call to Action: What Experts Say Needs to Be Done to Meet the Challenges of Family Caregiving. They invited 10 authors who have written about the challenges of family caregiving to participate in an AARP Solutions Forum on the issue....
Male Caregivers Have More Than Doubled
Men Increasingly Being Called on to be Caregivers In the last 15 years, the number of men caring for loved ones with AlzheimerÛªs or dementia has more than doubled, from 19 to 40 percent, according to the AlzheimerÛªs Association.åÊ The trend mirrors the higher number of women with the disease...
Link Between Sleep and Alzheimer’s? (VIDEO)
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Link Between Sleep and Alzheimer’s?
Start good sleeping habits young!@Laurence Monneret A preliminary study being presented this month and reported in Web MD suggests that the poorer your sleep, the more likely you may be to develop Alzheimer’s disease. “We found that if people had a lot of awakenings during the night, more than five...
Quality of Life for Disabled Elderly Tied to Dignity and Autonomy (VIDEO)
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Quality of Life for Disabled Elderly Tied to Dignity and Autonomy
Researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), studying multi-cultural residents at San Francisco’s On Lok Lifeways program, concluded that quality of life for disabled elderly people is most closely tied to two factors: a sense of dignity and a sense...