What is a Aging Disability Resource Center? — Changes to Medicare Part D Perscription Drug Plans 10-16-11
An Aging Disability Resource Center, contrary to the name is not a place but is a resource that exists under the banner of the Area Agency on Aging around the US. It is designed as a one stop location for seniors and their families to get information and access to services that enable seniors to remain independent in their own. According to the Administration on Aging – ” The Aging and Disability Resource Center Program (ADRC), a collaborative effort of AoA and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), is designed to streamline access to long-term care. The ADRC program provides states with an opportunity to effectively integrate the full range of long-term supports and services into a single, coordinated system. By simplifying access to long-term care systems, ADRCs and other single point of entry (SEP) systems are serving as the cornerstone for long-term care reform in many states.”
Marie Allen – Executive Director of the Southwestern Area Agency on Aging in Bridgeport, CT discusses the Resource Center- What, How, Where and Why.
MEDICARE PERSCRIPTION DRUG PLAN – PART D This year as before there are significant changes that need to be known by those eligible or becoming eligible for Medicare. Perhaps most significant is the Enrollment and Plan Change Dates which are now OCT 15th to Dec 7th.
Lisa Alhabal Communications Specialist for the Area Agency on Aging offers timely and useful information that will make navigating this sometimes complex Medicare benefit a bit easier
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Is Your Sleep Elusive? – Looking for Care for Elders? Look to the Area Agency on Aging- Caregivers Corner-Medication Related Injuries
ELUSIVE SLEEP
Being able get to sleep and being able to stay asleep for many may be more of a goal than a reality. Understanding why we have sleep problems and what we can do to make them better, goes a long way toward getting rested and able to function well during your waking hours.
Dr. Evan Steep, a Pulmonologists and Sleep Specialist discusses in this first of a multi-part interview on what we need to know about sleep and what we can do to help ourselves and finding those that can assist.
Finding Answers to Care for the Elderly – Area Agency on Aging
There are a lot of things we just don’t know and it doesn’t matter until we have a need. Often issues of aging and care come about by a crisis and finding solutions can be a challenge. Marie Allen, Executive Director of the Southwest Area Agency on Aging in CT continues her interview to discuss even ,ore things you probably didn’t know.
Care Givers Corner
Gerontologist Sheryl Inglat discusses how we handle those care giving issues such as “You Didn’t Tell Me I Have an Appointment – I Don’t Want to Go” Search Sheryl Inglat for more topics on care giving.
Medication Related Injuries
The number of people treated in hospitals in the United States for problems related to medication errors has surged more than 50 percent in recent years. NY Times
072411 Evan Steep – Sleep – Broadcast Part 1
072411 Evan Steep – Sleep – Broadcast Part 2
072411 Marie Allen – Area Agency Track 2a – Broadcast Part 3
072411 Sheryl Inglat Shopping-Med Related Injury – Broadcast Part 4
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Medication-Related Injuries on the Rise
Area Agency on Aging – Marie Allen, New CPR Techniques, Asphasia, Medication Mis-Management, Caregiving Corner, Aging Children with Autism
Air 06-26-11 Marie Allen Broadcast Part 1
Air 06-26-11 Marie Allen Broadcast Part 2
Air 06-26-11 New CPR-Thief Robs Brain-Take Pill- Part 3
Navigating Life Transitions – Intergenerational Issues
Whether you are part of the Greatest Generation, Baby Boomer generation, Gen X or something else, we all have different perspectives on those in the other groups. Understanding or even just tolerating each other is crucial. Card carrying members of the Sandwich Generation know how being in the middle feels. Transitions in life are for some very traumatic.
Art Gottlieb, MSW discussed how the dynamics of aging, care giving, being a parent or being a child effects how we relate to each other. 2/27/11
01/16/11 Smoking Cessation – 10 Tips to Stop Driving
Smoking Cessation – It’s like burning money, yet to many it’s so hard to quit. One of the cardinal rules is to do it for yourself. Although everyone around you will appreciate it. With so many options available, which is the best way to go? Cold Turkey, Hypnosis, the Patch, behaviour modification? We discuss stopping smoking with Mary Judge a nurse educator from Stamford Hospital in Stamford CT. Mary operates a smoking cessation program and discusses what it takes to stop successfully.
10 Signs That It’s Time To Give Up the Keys Deciding when an older adult is no longer fit to drive is a challenging issue with no clear answer. When it comes to dementia, the decision can be especially tricky. A recent study in the journal Neurology found that as many as 76 percent of people with mild dementia are still able to pass an on-road test and drive appropriately.
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1/16/11 Smoking Cessation with Mary Judge – Part 1
1/16/11 Smoking Cessation with Mary Judge – Part 2
1/16/11 Smoking Cessation with Mary Judge – Part 3
1/16/11 10 Signs That it’s Time to Give Up the Keys
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Smoking Cessation
Tobacco Cessation – You Can Quit Smoking Now!
Smoking & Tobacco Use
10 Signs That It’s Time To Give Up the Keys
Medical Marijuana Raises Tough Questions for Nursing Homes
When states began embracing medical marijuana, few anticipated this inevitable scenario: patients using it would grow older, and many would need to enter assisted living and nursing homes. The prospect has just begun to raise difficult questions for administrators and state regulators.
Medical Marijuana Raises Tough Questions for Nursing Homes
8/30/10 Doctors Seek Way to Treat Muscle Loss
Why muscles wither with age is captivating a growing number of scientists, drug and food companies, let alone aging baby boomers who, despite having spent years sweating in the gym, are confronting the body’s natural loss of muscle tone over time.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/health/research/31muscle.html?ref=health
Aging Differences – Men versus Women
We know that women are from Venus, at least that what the book says, but where the heck did men come from? Art Gottlieb, a licensed social worker and former director of the Intrepid Sea Air and Space Museum has a special perspective on aging differences. His special association with men in the military is key to understanding how life experience impacts who and what we are. Where we come from, what our values are play key roles in how we see ourselves and the roles we play in society. So why wouldn’t that hold in diffences between the sexes as we go into our older years.
Types of Home Health and Hospice Care Providers
http://healthlibrary.brighamandwomens.org/Search/85,P00613
