The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently ordered that statin labels include a warning about memory problems associated with short-term use.åÊA research team from Johns Hopkins Medicine found no evidence of this, based on their analysis of prior studies. In addition, they found that statin use for longer than one...
Archives: October 2013
You Are Indeed Wiser When You Are Older
Older and Wiser (From ALFA) A new study has found that although the ability to learn naturally decreases with age, experience accumulated over a lifetime allows most older adults to make better decisions than their younger counterparts. This shows in part that you are indeed wiser when you are older....
Americans Confused About How Long Term Care is Paid For
(From Health Day News / Harris Interactive) A new Harris Interactive/Health Day poll finds that more than two-thirds of Americans are anxious and uncertain about how they’ll meet nursing home or home care costs should they need them. Most people were also wrong about how most of these costs are...
Blinded by the Light – Diagnosed with Melanoma, They > Their Exposure
Too much exposure people. (From JAMA) Patients with cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM) (skin cancer) did not remain cautious about sun exposure in the three years after their diagnoses, according to a study by Luise Winkel Idorn, M.D., Ph.D., of Bispebjerg Hospital and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and colleagues. Exposure...
Neurotic – A Nursing Home May Be in Your Future
Researchers from various institutions, including the University of Rochester Medical Center Department of Public Health Sciences and the University of Chicago collected data from 1,074 community-dwelling seniors participating in a Medicare demonstration to see if there was a correlation between personality types and the likelihood of certain healthcare outcomes. They...
Time Passages
The following is a guest post from Dorothy Robinson. Doro as she prefers to be called is from Canada, and has written many articles about lifeÛªs moments. Now well along into her senior years, she savors the richness of life in each day, and often sees a good story in...
CDCÛªs State of Aging and Health in America 2013 Offer a Comprehensive and Holistic Look at Trends and Needs (VIDEO)
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CDCÛªs State of Aging and Health in America 2013 Offer a Comprehensive and Holistic Look at Trends and Needs
The CDC released The State of Aging and Health in America 2013 that provides a snapshot of our nation’s trends and progress in promoting prevention, improving the health and well-being of older adults, and reducing behaviors that contribute to premature death and disability. The older adult population aged 65 years...
The Old Meets New in Maxine’s Kitchen
The following is a guest post from Dorothy Robinson. Doro as she prefers to be called is from Canada, and has written many articles about lifeÛªs moments. Now well along into her senior years, she savors the richness of life in each day, and often sees a good story in...
Consumer Fact Sheet on Antipsychotic Medications Available
The American Health Care Association and the National Center for Assisted Living Center (AHCA/NCAL) released a consumer fact sheet on the use of antipsychotic medications for residents living with dementia in skilled nursing and assisted living. ÛÏThe long term care profession has made significant progress in safely reducing the off-label...