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Tag: chronic conditions
Senior Health Worsening Though Much is in Our Control
Time to Take Control From my article at Ground Report: United Health Foundation recently released AmericaÛªs Health Rankings Senior Report ÛÒ A Call to Action for Individuals and Their Communities. It finds preventable chronic illness at troubling levels among seniors. Nationwide, about 80 percent of seniors are living with at...
Sobering Report for Health of 40+
A MetLife Report on the Health Status of the 40+ Population paints a sobering picture. It focuses on three areas. Obesity Obesity carries with it an increased risk for many chronic conditions, such as hypertension, high cholesterol, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and even loss of sight, among others.åÊ Unhealthy behaviors and...
Two Thirds of Medicare Spent on Managing Multiple Chronic Conditions (VIDEO)
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Caregivers Manging Multiple Chronic Conditions; NCOA Can Help
The AARP Public Policy Institute (PPI) and the United Hospital Fund (UHF) recently released a new report that finds 46 percent of family caregivers perform medical and nursing tasks for care recipients with multiple chronic physical and cognitive conditions. The report, “Home Alone: Family Caregivers Providing Complex Chronic Care,” explores...
1/3 Women Living with Chronic Health Conditions
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, more than one-third of women report that they live with a chronic health condition that requires ongoing medical attention. One fourth (29 percent) of women ages 50 to 64 report fair or poor health. What is scary is that even among younger women, chronic...
Medicare Spending Hikes Linked to Chronic Conditions
An article in Health Affairs reports that annual increases in Medicare spending are the result of treatment of chronic conditions such as diabetes, arthritis, and hypertension. The report further says that Medicare spending increases in the past were due to inpatient hospital services, especially for heart disease. Heart disease ranked...
Let’s Move Should Not be for Just Kids
I applaud Mrs. Obama’s efforts to fight childhood obesity. But we should not lose site of the fact that many of us share the blame for our kid’s poor eating and exercise habits. Yes there is shameful, clever, manipulating marketing out there that sways behavior. But kids first look to...
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...
Obesity Poses Same If Not Greater Risks Than Smoking
Researchers at Columbia University and The City College of New York published a study in the February issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine that showed that the quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) lost to obesity are equal to, or greater than, those lost because of smoking. From 1993 to...