The Lincoln Financial Life Stages Survey: Long- term care, a survey of 1,002 Americans, was recently released. Most respondents were aware of forecasts predicting a dramatic rise in the number of Americans needing care. Few admitted to being truly prepared. People also understand that costs of care will seriously affect...
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End of Life Discussions Struck from Legislation
Last year, new Medicare guidelines were proposed that would allow doctors to get reimbursed for holding voluntary end-of-life consultations with patients during annual medical checkups. It would have given specific directions to doctors on what they should tell patients, including discussion of palliative care, hospice and other services. In early...
More Young in Nursing Homes
The Associated Press recently published an article about the number of younger people in nursing homes. The numbers are small but it does point to the fact that not all aging services are provided to the aging. The article profiled a 26 year old, further citing that one in seven...
Consider Your Lifestyle as New Year Approaches
This guest post is contributed by Bobbie Walker. She welcomes your comments at bobbiew862@gmail.com. At this yearäó»s World Medical Tourism and Global Health Congress, keynote speaker Dr. Jeanette Takamura, Dean of the School of Social Work at Columbia University identified the following as the top issues that affect baby boomers:...
Alzheimer’s Test Clears Hurdle
From McKnight’s – An advisory committee to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously last week that the FDA should approve a brain scan that can identify the beta amyloid plaques that characterize Alzheimer’s in living persons. The FDA typically follows the advice of the advisory committee. Prior to...
Over 90 and Loving It – More Beautiful Aging Stories
Filmmaker Susan Polis Schutz has put together a documentary featuring people in their 90s and 100s living extraordinary and passionate lives. Here’s a sampling. Nola Ochs receives her Masteräó»s Degree just three months shy of her 99th birthday.Folk singer Pete Seeger, 90, uses his music to change the world through...
Ninety-Two Percent of Female Retirees Not Planning Long-Term for Retirement
A new report from the Society of Actuaries (SOA) shows that while half of women will likely live beyond age 85, 92 percent do not plan far enough in the future to cover the 20 some years between retirement and life expectancy. Actuaries say that an understanding of post-retirement risks...
People Who Snore at Increased Risk for Heart Disease
People who snore loudly, have difficulty falling asleep, or often wake up feeling tired may also be at increased risk of developing heart disease and other health problems say researchers at the University of Pittsburgh. They asked more than 800 people between the ages of 45 and 74 about the...
South Korea’s War on Dementia is Something U.S. Should Emulate
The New York Times has reported that South Korea is training thousands of adults and children to become äóìdementia supportersäó as part of the country’s recently launched äóìWar on Dementia.äó These supporters are taught to recognize the symptoms of dementia and techniques for comforting those who are afflicted. Even kids...
More than Half of Americans Will Have Diabetes
More than half of Americans will have diabetes or be prediabetic by 2020 at a cost to the U.S. health care system of $3.35 trillion if current trends go unabated, according to a report released by UnitedHealth Group Inc. Diabetes and prediabetes will account for an estimated 10 percent of...