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We suggest the following videos on Wellness: On Exercise for Seniors: Senior Core Balance and Strength, Show 1.10 from Princeton Community Television on Vimeo. Senior Core Balance and Strength, Show 2.10 from Princeton Community Television on Vimeo. Senior Core . . . → Read More: CaringTube™ Editors’ Picks: Videos on Wellness  Please add your comments, suggesting other helpful resources/ links you have found for caregivers. Where a resource is state-specific, please indicate the state. Please add your comments, suggesting helpful resources you have found On Inspiration & Humor For Caregivers. Please add your comments, suggesting helpful resources you have found On Caregiver Self-Care, Coping & Handling Stress. Where a resource is state-specific, please indicate the state. Please add your comments, suggesting helpful resources you have found On Finding Geriatric Care Managers & Other Care Advisors & Professionals. Where a resource is state-specific, please indicate the state.  Comments are closed  CareWiki™ - Helpful Caregiver Resources on Finding Care Advisors & Professionals Please add your comments, suggesting helpful resources you have found On Senior Housing: Assisted Living & Care Facilities. Where a resource is state-specific, please indicate the state. Please add your comments, suggesting helpful resources you have found On Home Health-Care For Seniors. Where a resource is state-specific, please indicate the state. Please add your comments, suggesting helpful resources you have found on Financial & Legal Information For Caregivers. Where a resource is state-specific, please indicate the state. Please add your comments, suggesting helpful resources you have found on Wellness/ Prevention – Diet, Exercise & Activities. Where a resource is state-specific, please indicate the state. Please add your comments, suggesting helpful resources you have found on Alzheimer’s Disease. Where a resource is state-specific, please indicate the state. Please add your comments, suggesting helpful resources you have found on High Blood Pressure, Heart Disease & Stroke. Where a resource is state-specific, please indicate the state. Gail Sheehy, in her acclaimed book, Passages in Caregiving, outlines strategies to help family caregivers cope. See a (rather slow loading) video of her discussing her book and advice for family caregivers on msn.msnbc. Breathe! Strategies to help caregivers . . . → Read More: Breathe! Strategies to Help Caregivers Cope Please add your comments, suggesting helpful resources you have found on long-distance caregiving. Where a resource is state-specific, please indicate the state. Please add your comments, suggesting helpful resources you have found on how to deal with difficult elderly behavior. Where a resource is state-specific, please indicate the state. Please add your comments, suggesting helpful resources you have found on Cancer. Where a resource is state-specific, please indicate the state. Please add your comments, suggesting helpful resources you have found on Other Medical Ailments Commonly Faced By Seniors. Where a resource is state-specific, please indicate the state. Depending upon level of response and interest, we may create separate topics . . . → Read More: CareWiki™ – Tips From Our Community: Helpful Resources for Caregivers On Other Medical Ailments Commonly Faced By Seniors Please add your comments, suggesting helpful resources you have found on checklists for caregivers & advice on managing care. Where a resource is state-specific, please indicate the state. JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater was reported to be suffering from caregiver stress from caring from his parents. Now that the jokes have been exhausted, it’s time to focus on an issue in the shadows of his fabulous escape: caregiver . . . → Read More: Caregiver Stress: The Other Side of the JetBlue Freak Out New research challenges long-held ideas on calcium, fat. American have commonly accepted as ”fundamental “truths:” (1) that calcium builds strong bones and (2) that saturated fat clogs coronary arteries. As a result, millions of women have been told to swallow a . . . → Read More: Research Challenges Long-Held Ideas on Calcium & Fat A significant study recently published in the August issue of The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, presents new evidence that a diet rish in fish may ward off dementia. This was one of the largest efforts to document a connection — and the first . . . → Read More: Eating Fish May Ward Off Dementia Alzheimer’s: Prevent it now! By Lambert Klein Read Article: Alzheimer’s – Prevent it now! Moving stories of real caregivers, and an inspiring call to lend a hand, from the New York Times. Read more…The Caregiver Next Door – The New Old Age Blog – NYTimes.com. This is a new topic opened for discussion in our Forum. It will be moderated by a care professional and a family caregiver with experience dealing with Alzheimer’s and other dementia and difficult elderly behavior. As an opening, we . . . → Read More: How to Deal With Difficult Elderly Behavior New Video on healthy eating released by the National Institutes of Health; Senior Health. It makse the point that many of the common diseases of aging, such as high blood pressure, heart disease, and diabetes, can be controlled, delayed . . . → Read More: Eating for Health – Video by NIH Senior Health According to a recently released ranking of the countries in the world by the Save The Children Foundation, Norway ranked # 1. The U.S. was # 28 on the list. Factors considered in the ranking included the level of infant mortality, . . . → Read More: Norway Ranks As The Best Place in the World To Be a Mother Useful tips for caregivers to better manage their loved one’s health care include gathering information, getting an authorization for medical professionals to share health information with you signed by your loved one, enroll your loved one in free Medicare programs to . . . → Read More: Tips for Caregivers to Better Manage Their Loved One’s Health Care Comments are closed AnswersForCare™ - Tips for Caregivers, Tips & Skills for Managing & Coordinating Care Provides detailed information on what Medicare covers, how to enroll, and how to appeal denial of claims if necessary. Provided by a Nonprofit organization. Center for Medicare Advocacy. Check out this useful online search tool offered by the National Council on Aging to determine eligibility for 1,300 benefit programs that help pay for medications, health care, utilities and other elder care needs. BenefitsCheckUp – NCOAs Online Screening Service. Researchers find that a spinal-fluid test can be 100% accurate in predicting early on-set of Alzheimer’s. Read more in NYTimes.com.. Spinal-Fluid Test Is Found to Predict Alzheimer’s – NYTimes.com. New technologies help adult children monitor movements and safety of their aging parents, allowing the seniors to stay in their own homes longer and avoid moving to assisted living. NYTimes.com. Read more… Monitoring Elderly Parents – . . . → Read More: Technologies for Monitoring Elderly Parents The long-term care benefits promised in the Health Reform Law, though badly needed, are a long way off. Read more, as reported in the Washington Post: Read More>>Health-care overhaul: Long-term-care benefits are a long way . . . → Read More: Health-care overhaul: Long-term-care benefits are a long way off The US Department of Health & Human Services announced that it will be making grants to the States in a total amount of $51,000,000 in order to assiste the States in setting up the new competitive health insurance marketplaces required under the recently . . . → Read More: HHS Announces Availability of $51 Million in Resources for States to Build New Competitive Health Insurance Marketplace Comments are closed Health Insurance, News On Health Care Reform, VoicesForCare™ - News & Updates on Health Care Reform Many government and private orgainzations offer help for caregivers to patients with Alzheimer’s and other dementias. Read the story reported in the Los Angeles Times: Help for Alzheimer’s caregivers – . . . → Read More: Help for Alzheimer’s Caregivers Read tips for long-distance caregivers from the Cleveland Clinic. Some of the tips: Get organized; Schedule a family meeting; Research your loved one’s illness and treatment; Keep in touch with the medical providers for your loved one; Ask friends . . . → Read More: Tips for Long-Distance Caregivers Comments are closed AnswersForCare™ - Tips for Caregivers, Tips & Skills for Long-Distance Caregivers A New Study, conducted by an an epidemiologist with the American Cancer Society and reported in the American Journal of Epidemiology, finds that, the longer you sit, the shorter your lifetime. Read more… Read . . . → Read More: The Longer You Sit, the Shorter Your Life Span |
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The New Landscape – Preparing to Care for an Aging Population
Our health care system clearly lacks sufficient geriatric doctors and nurses as our population ages. With the anticipated explosive growth in the numbers of high-risk elderly patients coming as the Baby Boomers age, and under pressure from Medicare, hospitals, doctors . . . → Read More: The New Landscape – Preparing to Care for an Aging Population