The New Old Age column in the NYT ran a good article on intergenerational programming where adult day and child day care are combined. It speaks mostly to the benefits to elders. Yet there are great benefits to our youth. The Harvard School of Public Health-Met Life Foundation Initiative on...
Tag: aging
Crabby Old Man
No sage advice today but came across a poem sent from an activity professionals forum. It came on the heels of a great article in the Charlotte Observer about a young Girl Scout who “adopted” a woman at an assisted living facility. Both the story and poem speak about connecting...
Make Your End of Life Decisions While Your Life is in Full Bloom
There is a great article in the NYT in which they interview a now retired physician Robert L. Martensen about the state of health care. He observes that “most Americans die in hospitals or nursing homes, and neither is configured to take care of dying patients.” So you end up...
Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff
In my keynote The Meaning of Life (so presumptuous huh!) we cover eight basic points that we have learned from older folks about living a quality life. Among them we talk about lifelong learning, having a great attitude and having a broad social network. We have cited studies in the...
Nursing Home Deficiencies – Enforcement is just part of the answer
More bad news for nursing homes. A Health and Human Services report issued this week shows that more than 90 percent of U.S. nursing homes in each of the past three years were cited for violating federal standards. For-profit facilities had a higher percentage of violations – 94 percent compared...
Rocket Robin
In my keynote The Meaning of Life I note that we do not take enough time in our lives to just let our hair down and have fun. So for three minutes I get the people to tweet like birds and flap their wings. Enjoy.
Race and Nursing Homes
According to a study to be published in a medical journal Health Services Research, black nursing home residents in Maryland and Virginia are more likely than white residents to be sent to hospitals for dehydration, poor nutrition, bedsores and other ailments because of a gap in the quality of in-house...
No Country for Young Men
I just read an article today by Megan McArdle that looks at the Baby Boomers’ retirement and how it will change the texture of society. It is one of the best articles I have read on the subject. Check it out here.
Blacks likelier to live in poor-quality nursing homes
A new report in the September/October issue of Health Affairs, finds that 60% of blacks in nursing homes ended up in just 10% of the facilities ÛÓ typically ones that had been cited for quality problems. Interestingly the south was the least segregated around this issue. And that is consistent...
Medical Tourism in the Nursing Home Industry
A “small but steadily growing number” of U.S. residents “are moving across the border” into Mexican nursing homes, which provide care at a “fraction” of the price of U.S. facilities, reports USA Today. About 40,000 to 80,000 U.S. retirees currently live in Mexico, but no data exist on the number...