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 a diet rich in resveratrol, the antioxidant compound found in red wine, dark-skinned fruit, nuts and blueberries. Over that time, they observed how many missteps the mice made when traversing a balance beam made of steel mesh.
At the start of the study, the elderly mice struggled with missteps and frequently fell off the beam, while the younger mice did not. As the study went on, though, the old mice grew steadier on their feet.
ÛÏ[Resveratrol] could actually decrease some of the motor deficiencies that are seen in our aging population,Û Cavanaugh said, which in turn could increase a senior’s quality of life and decrease the risk of hospitalization from a fall.
åÊSounds like you need a great deal of wine to make this work. I suggest you get started now. Oh but consult with your doctor first.
Happy New Year everyone.
Botox Effective in Treating Incontinence in Women (VIDEO)
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Fifth of Nursing Aides Charged with Abuse Had Priors
According to the Office of the Inspector general, almost a fifth of nursing aides charged with abuse and neglect had prior convictions.
Nineteen percent of long-term care nursing aides who were found guilty of on-the-job abuse, neglect, or property theft in 2010 had prior criminal convictions. Overall, the 300 nurse aides with criminal convictions before their substantiated findings had a total of 622 convictions. The number of convictions per nurse aide ranged from 1 to 14, averaging 2.1 convictions per nurse aide.
An Affordable Care Act (ACA)-mandated analysis of skilled nursing facility background checks for nursing aides found that, out of the 1,611 nursing aides charged with abuse, neglect, or property theft in 2010, 300 had at least one prior criminal convictions, according to a report released by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector.
The most common prior conviction (53%) was for crimes such as burglary, shoplifting and writing bad checks. Additionally, ÛÏnurse aides with substantiated findings of either abuse or neglect were 3.2 times more likely to have a conviction of crime against persons than nurse aides with substantiated findings of misappropriation,Û the report stated.
The ACA establishes requirements for the background check programs that participating States must implement. States are required to conduct three types of background checks: (1) a search of any State-based abuse and neglect registries and databases, and the abuse and neglect registries of all known States in which the employee lived; (2) a check of State criminal history records; and (3) a fingerprint-based FBI criminal history records check.
The most important point for readers is to ask a prospective facility if they conduct background checks and how those backgrounds checks are conducted.
Botox Effective in Treating Incontinence in Women
Researchers at Loyola University, Chicago conducted a study that shows that Botox injections and oral medications both work well in reducing urinary incontinence in women, though Botox is more likely to completely resolve symptoms.
They studied a group of 241 women with urinary urgency incontinence for six months. The women were split into two groups ÛÓ one group was treated with a daily oral medication while women in the other group underwent one injection of Botox to the bladder plus a daily oral placebo pill.
The average reduction in the frequency of urgency incontinence episodes for women taking the oral medication was 3.4 episodes per day. For women who were given Botox, the average reduction was 3.3. The proportion of women with complete resolution of urgency incontinence was 13% with medications and 27% with Botox.
The study was published in the The New England Journal of Medicine.
Of course I am restraining from the Botox comparisons and what it is usually reserved for in medicine. I will leave that to you. Have a great weekend.
