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
How We Age – PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES
For young people, time seems to have no end. But, as time passes we suddenly realize that the number of remaining years is limited. The realization that we are growing old can be traumatic. Our ideas about and attitudes toward aging are very important in how well we cope with and enjoy the passing years.
http://www.healthinaging.org/agingintheknow/chapters_ch_trial.asp?ch=3
What Are We Going To Do With Dad?
What Are We Going To Do With Dad? Writing in Health Affairs, Geriatrician Jerald Winakur looks at the “vast inland sea of elders” that is building and wonders where the doctors will come from to care for them. Writing as the son of an eighty-six-year-old man with dementia, Winakur also details the nitty-gritty of caring for an increasingly debilitated parent. In both of his roles—loving son and highly skilled professional—he is hard pressed to alter a course that punishes his dad and tears at his family. Even as medical science extends life, the future seen through his eyes is fraught with clinical and moral quandaries.
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Preserving Your Balance – How Do You Rank?
Preserving Your Balance – How Do You Rank? Measuring ones ability to maintain balance is crucial to remaining independent. Falls are among the greatest risks to seniors living alone. We put John Perry to the test – see where he ranks.
7/12/09 Making Stairs a Lure for Exercise: A Surprising Sign of Dementia: In Early Alzheimer's, When to Give Up the Car Keys
Making Stairs a Lure for Exercise: Now, researchers are urging building designers to rethink their approach to stairs — even including using music — to encourage people to use them more. A Surprising Sign of Dementia: Being too thin in later years-especially for those who lose weight rapidly or who had been overweight-may well be an early sign of dementia. In Early Alzheimer’s, When to Give Up the Car Keys: It’s one of a family’s most wrenching decisions, and as Alzheimer’s increasingly is diagnosed in its earliest stages, it can be hard to tell when a loved one is poised to become a danger.
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Secrets Of The Centanarians
Regardless of centenarian findings, Perls said, evidence is emerging suggesting that people can make choices affecting their longevity… good lifelong habits, such as maintaining healthy diets, exercising, practicing religion, not smoking and so on, had an average life expectancy of 88 years–about 10 years more than the United States population as a whole. Most of the added years, he said, are healthy ones with limited illness and disability.
http://www.asaging.org/at/at-263/ASANCOAJointConference_SecretsOfTheCentanarians.cfm
12/14/2008 What's Your eyeQ? Continued … Men taking on the Caregiver Role
What’s Your eyeQ? (continued) … Men taking on the Caregiver Role. A New York Times article 11/29/08 discusses how today’s men are taking on the challenge of being a primary caregiver to a parent. Not exactly in the footsteps of their dads. Issues are different for sons than daughters. An interesting and timely topic.
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1/4/2009 Why Hire a Geriatric Care Manager? Who cares for the Caregiver?
Why Hire a Geriatric Care Manager? New York Times columnist Jane Gross interviewed Oct 6, 2008 and gave readers tips on what is a GCM, what they do and what they cost. A very timely and helpful professional, we take exception to some of the reasons and discuss some possible cost effective alternatives. Who cares for the Caregiver? Again Jane Gross Oct. 14, 2008 looks at the family caregiver and the challenges and stress that bears down on these heroes. We discuss what we need to do to ready the next generation of caregivers.
