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Elderly Fall Prevention Strategies
Statistics: 66% of indivuals that have a fall, will fall again in the next six months. In people aged 65 to 70 only 1 out of every 200 falls will result in a broken hip. In people over 85 years … Continue reading
How and Aging Population can Influence Infrastructure Changes
The baby boomer generation is starting to age. According to a recent study, in 2050 the number of citizens over 65 will be greater than 88 million. This number will be more than twice the seniors over the age of … Continue reading
Dancing Improves Health for Senior Citizens
One challenge that many healthcare providers have is getting their elderly patients to exercise regularly enough. Many seniors find it too challenging to take up a rigorous strength training, or cardio routine, due to health reasons. For many seniors these … Continue reading
Are Retirement Homes Taking Care of Their Properties Correctly
There is a retirement home in San Jose called The Villages. This community has a small problem. There is a 170 head Deer herd. In an effort to take care of the problem the retirement home decided to hire some … Continue reading
A Reverse Mortgage can Reverse your Fortune
Recently due to the banking crisis a lot of the major players such as Metlife, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America, have pulled out of the reverse mortgage market because of the housing market being so poor and because of … Continue reading
Social Security Benefits Stolen with a Phone Call
The only information a would-be identity thief needs is a small amount of personal information about a recipient of Social Security. With this starting point it only takes a phone call to reroute the benefits to the thief’s personal account, … Continue reading
Should home health care workers only make minimum wage?
In New Jersey there is a law on the books to reduce the reimbursement rates for home healthcare professionals to those of 1991. These professionals administer quality healthcare with the best equipment used in home healthcare. This change would essentially … Continue reading
Should an Alzheimer’s Patient Have a Credit Card?
The question has been raised by a colleague of mine if I think an Alzheimer’s patient should have a Credit Card or not? This issue initially seems pretty straight forward. If the patient wants the card they should be able … Continue reading
Door to Door scams to watch out for
If you have a small group of people wanting to drop by your house unannounced and sell you some service like concrete work, home repair, or landscaping without first showing you legitimate business cards or calling you so you can … Continue reading
6 Steps to stay cool for Seniors during the summer
The blazing summer is approaching an we need to be careful not to have heat exhaustion or even heat stroke, especially in the southern, low elevation states. Drink water preferably or at least nonalcoholic beverages; if your doctor generally limits the amount … Continue reading