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Articles of Interest
The news is full of stories related to aging, senior issues, caregiving, and volunteerism. Below you will find a sampling of recent articles from a variety of news sources relating to the DOROT community.
August 13, 2010
On the Road With, or Without, Elderly Parents
It’s August, time for a vacation from everything stressful — work, commuting, heat, congestion. But what about caregiving? Do adult children of elderly parents deserve a break from them, too?
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August 12, 2010
Rare Sharing of Data Leads to Progress on Alzheimer’s
In 2003, a group of scientists and executives from the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, the drug and medical-imaging industries, universities and nonprofit groups joined in a project that experts say had no precedent: a collaborative effort to find the biological markers that show the progression of Alzheimer’s disease in the human brain.
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August 5, 2010
Yoga’s Newest Fans
Mr. Sisco’s students say yoga has changed their lives. “It makes me feel good, happy, full of energy, vibrant,” said Mrs. Guzman, pumping her arms as if running a race. She has been taking the class and doing yoga nightly for eight years, and she credits it with reducing arthritis pain in her knees. “I walk better now,” she said. She also said she sleeps better.
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August 3, 2010
Being There, Without Leaving Home
With backing from Microsoft and the city’s Department for the Aging, Selfhelp has created a “virtual senior center” for about a dozen low-income elderly people, with six more scheduled to join the party at the end of the summer.
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August 2, 2010
Not on the Doctor’s Checklist, but Touch Matters
A new patient comes to my office, a healthy middle-aged woman. The medical assistant has already documented her normal blood pressure. Of our allotted 15 minutes, I spend more than two-thirds talking with her.
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July 28, 2010
Technologies Help Adult Children Monitor Aging Parents
In the general scheme of life, parents are the ones who keep tabs on the children. But now, a raft of new technology is making it possible for adult children to monitor to a stunningly precise degree the daily movements and habits of their aging parents.
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July 28, 2010
The Technology for Monitoring Elderly Relatives
In the last few years, a series of technological developments has given parents and their adult children some new options. Devices and Internet-based solutions are becoming available that allow caregivers to keep an unobtrusive, high-tech eye on their family members, ensuring that they’re safe, healthy and well cared for.
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July 28, 2010
A New Risk Factor: Your Social Life
Social relationships are just as important to health as other common risk factors like smoking, lack of exercise or obesity, new research shows.
Numerous studies have suggested that strong social ties are associated with better health and longevity, but now a sweeping review of the research shows just how important social relationships really are. Researchers from Brigham Young University reviewed 148 studies that tracked the social habits of more than 300,000 people. They found that people who have strong ties to family, friends or co-workers have a 50 percent lower risk of dying over a given period than those with fewer social connections, according to the journal Plos Medicine.
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July 21, 2010
Old Age in America, by the Numbers
The population of older Americans is growing faster than ever and living longer than ever, but not as long as in much of Europe and elsewhere in the developed world, according to “Older Americans 2010: Key Indicators of Well-Being,” a report compiled by 15 federal agencies.
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July 19, 2010
Creating Safer and Kinder Districts to Grow Old
Efforts to make it easier to grow old in New York City were born of good intentions as well as economic strategy.
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July 16, 2010
Cuts in Home Care Put Elderly and Disabled at Risk
As states face severe budget shortfalls, many have cut home-care services for the elderly or the disabled, programs that have been shown to save states money in the long run because they keep people out of nursing homes.
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June 28, 2010
Preparing More Care of Elderly
With a nudge from the new health care law and pressure from Medicare, hospitals doctors and nurses are struggling to prepare for explosive growth in the numbers of high-risk elderly patients.
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