Archives: July 2012
National Alzheimer’s Plan Finalized
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5 Cool Ways Health Clubs are Shrinking SeniorsÛª Waistlines
Guest post by David Roddenberry. åÊ David Roddenberry is co-founder of HealthyWage, (www.HealthyWage.com), the only company that pays Americans cash to lose weight while offering social and expert-based support, tools and resources, and goal-setting and tracking technologies to address our nationÛªs obesity epidemic and improve AmericaÛªs collective health. Health club...
National Alzheimer’s Plan Presented
Back in the winter, a draft of a National Alzheimer’s Plan, called for in the National AlzheimerÛªs Project Act (NAPA), was released. More than 3,600 people or organizations submitted comments on the draft plan including the Consumer Consortium for Advancing Person Center Living, of which I am on the board.åÊ...
Acupuncture Can Help COPD (VIDEO)
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Acupuncture Can Help COPD
Could help COPD! Acupuncture appears to help the labored breathing that accompanies chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Japanese investigators tracked 68 COPD patients over a 12-week period. Half of the participants received acupuncture plus daily medication, while the other half was assigned to a placebo in which the acupuncture needles...
Are Accredited Nursing Homes Safer? (VIDEO)
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Obesity Burns Gas (VIDEO)
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Are Accredited Nursing Homes Safer?
A new study in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety entitled ÛÏSafety Culture ÛÒ Relationship Between Nursing Home Safety Culture and Joint Commission AccreditationÛ suggests that nursing homes accredited by The Joint Commission have a more robust culture of resident safety than non-accredited facilities and has a...
Obesity Burns Gas
Here is a fascinating statistic courtesy of The Atlantic. Thanks to the startling rise in obesity, every year Americans consume at least a billion gallons more gas today than they would have if people were as trim as they were in 1960.åÊ For every additional pound of passenger weight, the...