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Numbers compiled on Alzheimer’s sobering, frightening
The statistics, as statistics so often can be, are startling. According to a report at entitled “Alzheimer’s in America,” the following are the frightening facts: One in nine Americans over 65 has Alzheimer’s disease. (Alzheimer’s Association) When the first wave of baby boomers reached age 85 in 2031, it was projected that more than… Read More »
Law Helps Provide Patients With Proper After-Care
It made little sense: Treating people in the hospital for serious health problems, only to discharge them without making certain some form of after-care was in place. Now in Virginia and several other states, laws are in place that seek to prevent this revolving-door situation from continuing to exist. The Virginia General Assembly earlier… Read More »
Virginia Beach Seniors Can Be Made To Feel Safer For Free
The Virginia Beach Police Department is hoping to expand how safe senior citizens feel in their home by providing them a narrow focus on who is at their front door. Operation Lookout Expanded is a program offered by the VBPD, in partnership with the Virginia Beach Sheriff’s Office that has “the goal of making… Read More »
Unpaid Caregivers Pack Powerful Economic Punch
What would be worth more than the combined 2013 sales of Apple, Hewlett Packard, IBM and Microsoft? Why, the unpaid services by family caregivers in the United States that same year, according to a recent report by the AARP. The medical support and other services provided to loved ones was estimated at $470 billion…. Read More »
British Youth’s Test Could Detect Alzheimer’s Long Before Symptoms
RespectThat’s one smart young man. “A 15-year-old British boy has developed a potential test for Alzheimer’s disease which could allow the condition to be diagnosed 10 years before the first symptoms appear,” according to a recent story in The Daily Telegraph newspaper of London. The disease, the story by science editor Sarah Knapton points… Read More »
Elder Mediation Can Help Keep Siblings Friends
The stresses and strains of caring for an aging parent, and especially determine what form that care should take, can push apart even the closest of siblings. A recent story in The New York Times describes how two sisters nearly had a falling out after the death of their father in 2011 when it… Read More »
Article Predicts Technology May Change How People Age
Technology can’t halt the aging process, but a Huffington Post piece points out that it may change the way people grow older. “Technology is changing everything, including how we will age and the quality of our senior years,” begins the story by Ann Brenoff ” Mobile devices, wearable gadgets and Internet-based technologies will help… Read More »
Budget Shortfall Could Close VA Hospitals
Health care for veterans, already in a deplorable state, could be about to get much worse, according to a recent Associated Press story that ran in in The San Diego Union-Tribune. The Department of Veterans Affairs may have to shut down some hospitals this month if Congress fails to act to close to $2.5… Read More »
Some Pointers On Finding New Estate Planning Help
As if moving to a new state wasn’t burdensome enough, relocating almost always means having to find a new estate-planning attorney. An article on the website about.com by wills and estate-planning expert offers some advice to make this part of settling down elsewhere easier. “Are you looking for a new estate planning attorney because… Read More »
FBI site notes elderly often targeted by scammers
Older people are not necessarily easier marks for con artists, but they do tend to fall victim to scams simply because they are targeted more than the rest of the population, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In a web page devoted entirely to the subject, this and other factors point out how… Read More »