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12.02.2010		Destination Rx: Making Better Decisions Here is a new tool to help consumers make better healthcare decisions for...

12.02.2010		Planning Ahead: Keeping Legal Documents in Order The holiday season is a time to spend with family, and an opportunity for millions of caregivers to check on their loved ones and help them plan for the upcoming year. Preparing legal documents involving health and care decisions with aging relatives is...

12.02.2010		Hospice: The Best Kept Secret in Town “Hospice? Sounds like something that comes out of a can!” responded Jay, the upbeat 30-something I had stopped to ask for directions outside of a large corporate office building. Clearly, Jay hadn’t heard of the hospice organization I was...

12.02.2010		From the Editor: The Healthy Benefits of Volunteering The goal for most of us is to age well. In order to do this, we must make a commitment to take care of ourselves and to handle health challenges as they arise. Listening to your body is important. Rest when you are tired, learn to manage stress so you can...

12.02.2010		Family Meetings: Crucial Times as Siblings Age If you encounter midlife siblings during the holiday events and feel like you have major issues, maybe it’s time to consider a family meeting in the New Year. Midlife brothers and sisters often need to gather as a team to solve a parent care problem...

11.18.2010		National Council of Certified Dementia Practitioners Celebrates Alzheimer's and Dementia Staff Education Week NCCDP Alzheimer's and Dementia Education Week is February 14th to the 21st. To celebrate the organization has developed an Education Tool Kit which...

11.18.2010		Smart Shoes: A Creative Approach in Fall Prevention Approximately one-third of all falls taken by seniors require medical treatment, and 10 percent...

11.18.2010		Home Is Where People Want to Be Although healthcare has been concentrated in hospitals, clinics and other...

11.18.2010		The Changing Family Unit The number of children living in their grandparents’ home increased...

11.18.2010		New Medicines Could Change the Trajectory of Alzheimer's Disease New Alzheimer's treatments are needed to avert a public health crisis. By...

11.18.2010		E-health Remains Key to Improving Patient Care in Hospitals and at Home Health information technology continues to serve an important role...

11.18.2010		Discharge Planner/Case Managers Must Provide Freedom of Choice of Providers All patients have the right to freedom of choice of providers and discharge...

11.18.2010		Introducing The Professional Patient Advocate Institute Last week, Dorland Health rolled out the Professional Patient Advocate Institute (PPAI), a membership organization for individual professionals, organizations, employer groups, consumers and others who have discovered the emerging practice of patient...

11.17.2010		Coming Home for the Holidays to Aging Parents During the holiday season, many Americans will visit their aging parents, often for the first time in many months, or even for the first time since the last holiday season. Even three months can make a big difference in a senior’s mental state and...

11.17.2010		Initiating ‘The Conversation’ About End-of-Life Care Mike, a nurse and the CEO of a large healthcare institution, shared with me recently that he felt paralyzed at the thought of initiating a conversation with his 86-year-old father about his end-of-life wishes. His father had just suffered a stroke, but was...

11.17.2010		Is There a Long-Term Care Funding Crisis? The numbers are staggering. And what they portend for the long-term care industry—and the patients using its services—is a potentially calamitous situation. In 2011, every day will bring 10,000 baby boomers into the federal folds of Medicare and...

11.04.2010		Study Finds No Clear Link Between Stress Levels and Weight Gain A meta-analysis showed that 69% of 32 studies found no clear evidence linking stress...

11.04.2010		Active Lifestyle May Protect Against Common Cold A study showed that people who exercised at least five days a week were 46% less likely to have...

11.04.2010		New Study Shows Increase Rates of Drug Related Admission Hospitalizations due to adverse effects of prescription, over-the-counter and illegal drugs rose by 117% for people ages 45...

11.04.2010		Pain Levels Increase in Older Adults Before Death A U.S. study of older adults found 26% reported pain two years before they died, with pain levels rising four months before...

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