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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 ÛÏaverageÛ U.S. caregiver is a 49-year-old woman who works outside the home and spends nearly 20 hours per weekÛÓthe equivalent of another parttime jobÛÓproviding unpaid care to her mother for nearly five...
Hip Fractures and Sleeping Pills – Deadly Combo (VIDEO)
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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...
Infographic on How We Spend
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CarePlanners New Model for Helping Mom and Dad (VIDEO)
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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...
Drink Wine Fall Less (VIDEO)
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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...