According to new research, light to moderate alcohol consumption can prevent disability in healthy seniors. The results from a UCLA study showing that healthy seniors who drink less than 15 drinks per week and less than 5 drinks per day (less than four per day for women), have better overall health, and remain active [...]
There are more than 50 million Americans today providing unpaid care for family members and loved ones: an aging or ailing parent, a friend with a chronic health condition, a spouse with Alzheimer’s, a sibling with a traumatic war injury, a child with physical or mental challenges. Family caregivers represent a huge but invisible “silent [...]
A recent survey of baby boomers revealed that their positive outlook on their own health and that of their spouses’ may not sync up with reality. According to the survey conducted by Energizer Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ENR), more than seven out of ten respondents (73 percent) rated their health – and the health of their [...]
FDA approved a new home health monitoring device from Intel. It is called Health Guide. This home health monitoring device is easy to use and aimed at helping those with chronic health conditions, who need to monitor health regularly.
Intel’s Home Health Monitoring System is a device combining several meters in one and allowing to send [...]
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the AARP released two new checklists designed to help men and women over the age of 50 learn what they can do to stay healthy and prevent disease.
AHRQ and AARP also released an accompanying wall chart, the Staying Healthy at 50+ timeline, that provides information about recommended [...]
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The numberof nursing homes nationwide that were cited for placing residents in%26quot;immediate jeopardy%26quot; increased by 22% from 2000 to 2006, according toa USA Today analysis of CMS records.The citations are the most serious reprimand inspectors can issue and oftenfollow cases in which residents have been physically or sexually abused or didnot receive their medications, [...]
Hyperthermia is the name given to a variety of heat-related illnesses that can include heat stroke, heat fatigue, heat syncope (sudden dizziness after exercising in the heat), heat cramps and heat exhaustion. Older adults are particularly at risk for developing heat-related illness because the ability to adequately respond to summer heat can become less efficient [...]
Robots may be the solution for people with disabilities who are struggling to regain the use of their limbs, thanks to a research team that includes engineers and students from Rochester Institute of Technology.
The study utilizes physiological information, or bio-signals, produced by the human body, to improve the performance of external assistive devices, called orthoses, [...]
As America’s aging population increases, so does its need for long-term care. And the workers who provide these services often lack the support they need – particularly in the area of pay and work relationships, according to “Better Jobs Better Care: New Research on the Long-Term Care Workforce,” the latest special issue of The Gerontologist [...]
It costs money to improve the quality of nursing care through work environment changes or increases in staffing but those costs may be offset through improved nursing satisfaction and patient outcomes, according to research in a Special Issue of Policy, Politics %26amp; Nursing Practice published by SAGE.
The guest editorial, “The Importance and Challenge of Paying [...]