Archives: January 2013

Impact of Family Caregiving on Work

The AARP’s updated report on family caregivers and work shows increasing numbers of caregivers in the workplace. The ‰ÛÏaverage‰Û U.S. caregiver is a 49-year-old woman who works outside the home and spends nearly 20 hours per week‰ÛÓthe equivalent of another parttime job‰ÛÓproviding unpaid care to her mother for nearly five...

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Hip Fractures and Sleeping Pills – Deadly Combo

Following a Medicare Part D change in 2006, physicians started prescribing sleeping pills such as Ambien, Lunesta and Sonata for nursing home residents with insomnia. The newer sleeping pills were thought to be safer for residents than benzodiazepine hypnotics, researchers noted. But in a study by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical...

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CarePlanners New Model for Helping Mom and Dad

As you made your way back home from an elder relative’s home during the holidays, you may have noticed some things that suggested that he/she could need some extra care. I had the pleasure of meeting the founder of CarePlanners, Alan Blaustein, in the fall of last year and learn...

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Drink Wine Fall Less

Sounds too good to be true huh!åÊ Because the inclination is to believe the more you drink the more unstable you become and the more likely to fall. For eight weeks, scientists at Duquesne University, led by Assistant Professor of Pharmacology Jane E. Cavanaugh, Ph.D., fed old and young mice...

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