Eldercare, Aging and Long Term Care

For Elderly in Rural Areas, Hard Times Get Harder - NYTimes.com

2009-12-10T07:44:40-08:00

For Elderly in Rural Areas, Hard Times Get Harder - NYTimes.com.

Growing old has never been easy. But in isolated, rural spots like this, it is harder still, especially as the battering ram of recession and budget cuts to programs for the elderly sweep through many local and state governments.

Phys Ed: What Causes Early Arthritis in Knees? - Well Blog - NYTimes.com

2009-12-09T06:26:43-08:00

Phys Ed: What Causes Early Arthritis in Knees? - Well Blog - NYTimes.com.

Human knees (as well as bovine ones) are remarkable instruments, able to bear large loads and pivot in multiple directions. But they also damage easily, as evidenced by the approximately 175,000 anterior-cruciate-ligament-reconstruction operations performed in the United States every year, a number that, by all estimates, has risen steeply in the past decade or so. (No agency tracks the procedures.) Many of these operations are being done now on teenagers, who rip an A.C.L. during a soccer or basketball game. (A.C.L. operations were relatively uncommon in young people before youth sports grew so popular.) Others are in men and women in their 20s and 30s who fall on the ski slopes, for instance.

Senior Site en español - AFB Senior Site - American Foundation for the Blind

2009-12-06T17:28:06-08:00

Senior Site en español - AFB Senior Site - American Foundation for the Blind.

Senior Site en español Bienvenido al Senior Site® español de AFB. En esta sección, encontrará algunas de las partes mas importantes de este sitio web que pueden ayudarle a usted y a los miembros de su familia a enfrentar la pérdida visual. Para conocer más acerca de Senior Site, por favor, dedique un momento a ver el mensaje de bienvenida de Judy Scott, Directora del Centro de Pérdida Visual de AFB.

Senior Site - American Foundation for the Blind

2009-12-06T17:27:37-08:00

Senior Site - American Foundation for the Blind.

Welcome to AFB Senior Site® Are you an older person experiencing visual impairment? This site was designed with you in mind. It contains helpful solutions and resources that can help you and your family members cope with vision problems.

Health Care Plan Could Cut Home Care - NYTimes.com

2009-12-04T18:47:52-08:00

Health Care Plan Could Cut Home Care - NYTimes.com.

Home care shows, in microcosm, a conundrum at the heart of the health care debate. Lawmakers have decided that most of the money to cover the uninsured should come from the health care system itself. This raises the question: Can health care providers reduce costs without slashing services?

David Sedaris’s Latest Audiobook to Be Released on Vinyl - NYTimes.com

2009-11-23T06:07:02-08:00

Not aging or health related - but of personal interest to me:

David Sedaris’s Latest Audiobook to Be Released on Vinyl - NYTimes.com.

Hachette Audio recently announced that the latest audiobook by David Sedaris, “Live for Your Listening Pleasure,” which features readings before audiences, would be available on the least portable of formats: vinyl. Reminiscent of Blue Note albums from the 1950s and 1960s, the cover features a photograph of a woman sprawled on a white shag rug with a come-hither look, albums strewn about.

Patient Money - How to Find Mental Health Care When Money Is Tight - NYTimes.com

2009-11-20T13:30:12-08:00

Patient Money - How to Find Mental Health Care When Money Is Tight - NYTimes.com.

IMAGINE this situation. You fall into a deep malaise. Friends say you need help, but you don’t have insurance (or the insurance you do have has very limited mental health benefits), and you worry that extra bills will only add to your malaise. So you do nothing.

And that’s what many people do. According to a recent survey by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (Samhsa, pronounced SAM-suh) , the leading reason that people with mental health issues don’t seek treatment is cost. They fear the fees.

Patient Money - How to Find Mental Health Care When Money Is Tight - NYTimes.com

2009-11-20T13:30:07-08:00

Patient Money - How to Find Mental Health Care When Money Is Tight - NYTimes.com.

IMAGINE this situation. You fall into a deep malaise. Friends say you need help, but you don’t have insurance (or the insurance you do have has very limited mental health benefits), and you worry that extra bills will only add to your malaise. So you do nothing.

And that’s what many people do. According to a recent survey by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (Samhsa, pronounced SAM-suh) , the leading reason that people with mental health issues don’t seek treatment is cost. They fear the fees.

Playing Sounds to the Sleeping Aids Memory, Study Finds - NYTimes.com

2009-11-20T08:50:05-08:00

Playing Sounds to the Sleeping Aids Memory, Study Finds - NYTimes.com.

Scientists at Northwestern University report that playing specific sounds while people slept helped them remember more of what they had learned before they fell sleep, to the point where memories of individual facts were enhanced. In a study published online Thursday by the journal Science, researchers taught people to move 50 pictures to their correct locations on a computer screen. Each picture was accompanied by a related sound — meow for a cat, whirring for a helicopter, for example.

Health News Review

2009-11-18T18:53:10-08:00

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