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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...
Possible New Blog – Your Thoughts
I am considering starting a sister blog to this one tentatively entitled Caregiver Confessions. Here is the idea. I push a lot of one way information to my audience around what I call educated aging – physical, emotional and financial. And I know that caregiving is an important issue that...
Son Tries to Evict 98-year-old Mom From House
Mary KantorowskiCourtesy NBC From the Associated Press Peter Kantorowski wanted his 98-year-old mother Mary to move into a nursing home or live with him. She wouldn’t go; she didn’t want to leave her home of nearly 60åÊyears. Finally, Kantorowski went to court and served his mother with an eviction notice...