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
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.
Tests Show More Swine Flu Immunity in Older Folks
Tests Show More Swine Flu Immunity in Older Folks: New test results show what scientists have suspected — people in their 60′s and older have signs of greater immunity to the new swine flu virus.
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Tests Show More Swine Flu Immunity in Older Folks
New test results show what scientists have suspected — people in their 60′s and older have signs of greater immunity to the new swine flu virus.
3/29/2009 Demystyfing Your Aging Parents New Stage of Life
Those of us who are caring for elderly parents are often bewildered by the decisions they make — and by their seemingly stubborn refusal to follow our advice. We shake our heads over their obsession with the past, their caution, and the glacial pace with which they make decisions and move through the world.
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Medication & Risk Factors That Lead to Falls
Medication & Risk Factors That Lead to Falls- An article featured in the Gilbert Guide by Joseph Woelfel looks at the factors that contribute to falls among older people and concludes that medications play an important part. Understanding the risks and what can be done to prevent falls is key to a long healthy life.
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Years Later, Divorce Complicates Caregiving
Years after parents split, their children may wind up helping to sustain two households instead of one, and those households can be across town or across the country.
http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/years-later-divorce-complicates-caregiving/
When Your Loved One Resists Care
How many times has your mother refused to change her clothes? Has your father resisted getting out of bed? Has your wife pushed you away when you tried to brush her teeth? Many times a caregiver will be particularly frustrated by her loved one’s refusal to help himself.
http://www.ec-online.net/Knowledge/Articles/resistance.html
11th Commandment – Don't Parent your Parent
The original ten commandments are divided into the 5 shalts and the 5 shalt nots. One of them is clearly related to caregiving: Honor they father and mother. However, there seems to be considerable psychological confusion about how to do this, which has led to lots of articles and even a few books about a term that brings fear into the hearts of many caregivers: “Parenting your parent.”
http://www.ec-online.net/knowledge/Articles/11thcommandment.html
