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The Caregiver’s Guide to Alzheimer’s Disease: 20 Memory Care Experts on Caring for Alzhiemer’s Patients
Caring for loved ones with Alzheimer’s Disease or Dementia can be a confusing, emotionally taxing and overwhelming experience for caregivers and family members. Often, it’s tough to know where to turn to get the best, most informative answers to your questions about Alzheimer’s care. With that in mind, we reached out to 20 memory care [...]
Music and Dementia: Does Music Therapy Help Revere the Effects of Dementia in the Elderly?
Dementia is a progressive disorder which can lead to the loss of short term memory and a diminished ability to reason, communicate or process information. The frustration these symptoms bring the patient can result in bouts of depression and behavior problems. The burden of dealing with the breadth of these symptoms has led doctors and [...]
MRSA and the Elderly – The Real Risks and How to Prevent It
MRSA is the abbreviation for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, a Gram-positive coccal bacterium. Prior to the development of penicillin, MRSA was the cause of death for many people. Usually death was caused by pneumonia, an infection of the lungs that was called ‘the old person’s friend’, meaning that a frail, sick, elderly person would be taken [...]
Medicaid Assisted Living Beneifts – Does Medicaid Pay for Assisted Living?
need attention and care outside the scope of our capabilities. It is important, should we have to make that ultimate decision to seek a remedy through assisted living toward the comfort and aid of those in our care—that we know what resources are available and what are the prerequisites for their use. Medicare pays for [...]
Announcing the Winners of the 2012 ALTY Blog Awards
We’ve got some big news! Winners for The 2012 ALTY Blog Awards have been decided. You the voters have spoken and you’ve chosen this year’s best senior care and senior living blogs from across eight different awards categories. And you spoke loudly, with more than 12,000 votes being cast over the course of a month. [...]
Mesothelioma and Seniors: What You Need to Know
This article is a reprint courtesy of our friends over at Asbestos.com and was authored by Rachel Gilner, Outreach Coordinator. Mesothelioma is most commonly found in seniors, with the average age of diagnosis at 62 years old. Mesothelioma has a latency period of 20-50 years, so an older demographic who may have been exposed in [...]
5 Questions to Ask When Choosing Home Care Agencies
When the decision is made to provide a senior citizen with assisted care, there are a number of questions that should be kept in mind when talking to the various available home care agencies. Here are five questions to ask home care agencies in order to help you find the best match for your situation: [...]
Elderly Depression: 5 Effective Treatments
Elderly depression can often be difficult to treat due to the variety of factors that can contribute to depression in the elderly. Options for treatment of elderly depression seem more limited than those for younger individuals due to the higher likelihood of medical factors contributing to the disorder in senior citizens, dementia being particularly difficult [...]
5 Non-medical, Natural Alzheimer’s Treatments that Work
Alzheimer’s disease ranks sixth in the list of top mortality causes in the United States. The Alzheimer’s Association estimates that there are 5.4 million people afflicted with the disease, and this number is expected to rise rapidly in the coming years as the baby boomer population ages. While we have yet to find a cure [...]
Anxiety in the Elderly: 5 Common Sources
Anxiety is a common feeling. Almost everyone falls victim to its clutches one time or another but those who suffer from anxiety disorders or prolonged anxiety episodes understand how debilitating of a feeling anxiety can be. Although there are a number of different things that can cause anxiety, anxiety can often go unnoticed or untreated [...]
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