According to Health Day, a study by Dr. Nikolaos Scarmeas at Columbia University Medical Center shows that eating a Mediterranean-style diet — one rich in olive oil, whole grains, fish and fruit — may protect aging brains from damage linked to cognitive problems. The study involved 712 men and women...
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SAGE Awarded Grant for National Resource Center
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and the Administration on Aging have awarded Services & Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Elders (SAGE) a three-year, $900,000 grant to create the nationÛªs only national resource center on LGBT aging. The National Technical Assistance Resource Center for LGBT Elders will...
Long-Term Quality Alliance Launched
A group of the nationÛªs leading health, consumer, and aging advocates has formed a new alliance, The Long-Term Quality Alliance (LTQA), which aims to broaden efforts to improve quality of care to include community-based settings as well as nursing homes. It will do so by fostering ÛÏperson-centeredÛ quality measures for...
Prevent Frailty in Later Life By Starting Healthy Habits Now
Dr. Linda P. Fried, dean and DeLamar professor of public health at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health in New York City and her research team published a study in the Journals of Gerontology Series A that found that three or more bodily systems functioning at abnormal levels was...
Young Seniors Less Healthy Than Previous Generations
Americans in their 60s are less healthy than generations that preceded them. That according to a study published by the American Journal of Public Health. The authors compared two National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data sets, for 1988-1994 and for 1999-2004, to examine disabilities for adults age 60 to...
Last Call for Alcohol Seniors
There has been a lot of made of studies that suggest two drinks a day can stave off functional decline in old age. New research suggests that it’s lifestyle, not liquor, that really helps. Researchers at the University of Ferrara, Italy, followed more than 3,000 seniors aged 70-79 to determine...
Creating Heroes – The Authentic Path to Person Centered Care
What do a long term care facility and a fire house have in common? A lot actually. Dirty jobs, life and death, dark moments and light yet the firefighters culture thrives with little burnout and low attrition. Why is that? Firefighters create a supportive and celebratory culture that acknowledges the...
88 Year Old Mayor Can Teach Us A Lot About Life
This video will do more than anything I could ever say about aging. Thanks to my Facebook friend Angella Conrard who posted this video about a Canadian Mayor, 88 yrs young, 11 terms; city is debt free. As Angella says, our governments & politicians could take a lesson from this...
New Test Claims to Detect Early Alzheimer’s
Reporting in the June 10 issue of BMJ, researchers have developed a new self-administered cognitive test that is quick to use, examines 10 skills, and reportedly detects 93% of cases of Alzheimer’s disease. Lead researcher and neurologist Jeremy Brown, MD, from Cambridge, the United Kingdom says that the test can...
Changing the Health Care Experience Through Telemonitoring
A big push in healthcare will start to focus on prevention, stabilization of chronic conditions, coordination of care and self responsibility. In this blog, the author makes a great case for the importance of technology to the patient experience. In this case telemonitoring. To quote: “Telemonitoring, in and of itself,...