Three Congressional representatives have introduced a new bill to protect senior citizens from scams, fraud, and abuse. The bill would give state and local governments more resources to combat elder abuse. Some measures included in the bill: Establish an Elder Justice Coordinating Council to coordinate activities of the Federal, State,...
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Even Funeral Homes Understand the Experience
Did you catch the article about funeral home experiences in the NYT? Very interesting. Funeral directors are starting to understand that the experience even extends to the dead (and their love ones) as they customize the ultimate send off. Bike lovers pay an extra $200 or so to take their...
Price Transparency and Hospitals
Here is a guest post written for Health Leaders on price transparency in health care.
4 Secrets of Aging in a Healthy Way
This guest blog is written by Kat Sanders, who regularly blogs on the topic of phlebotomy technician salary at her blog Health Zone Blog. She welcomes your comments and questions at her email address: katsanders25@gmail.com. Kat supports many of the things we contend on a daily basis in this blog...
Co-housing Yet Another Alternative for Senior Living
Came across this article in U.S. News on a novel but not new form of senior housing, sort of communal living where everyone in the community takes care of the other. Actually we have friends who are talking about this very concept. Who can we bring together to live with...
Eating Disorders on the Rise among Elderly
You don’t often associate anorexia and bulimia with the elderly. Here is some alarming information in Advance for Long-Term Living from research by Remuda Ranch, an eating disorders program. Eating disorders in elderly women have increased and the majority of deaths from anorexia nervosa occur in people over age 65....
Life Lessons to Hold Off Alzheimer’s Disease
Read our guest blog in Advance in Long term Care Management. We look at some life lessons that can help slow, maybe even prevent the onslaught of Alzheimer’s disease.
Life Lessons to Hold Off AlzheimerÛªs Disease
Read our guest blog in Advance in Long term Care Management. We look at some life lessons that can help slow, maybe even prevent the onslaught of Alzheimer’s disease.
Legislation to expand access to long-term care insurance introduced.
Legislation to expand access to long-term care insurance and strengthen consumer protections of these insurance products has been introduced in the House. The Long-Term Care Affordability and Security Act of 2009 would permit long-term care insurance to be included in employer-sponsored cafeteria plans and flexible spending accounts, enabling people to...
susan Boyle, Stereotypes and Ageism
Great article in the NYT about how people make judgments and rationalize them. We process information so quick that we size things up in nanoseconds. Interestingly the article notes this about ageism: AGE plays a role in forging stereotypes, too, with older people traditionally seen as ÛÏharmless and useless,Û Professor...