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Posts Tagged ‘elders’
22 Jun
New supplement may help slow sight loss in elderly
Queen’s University Belfast academics have helped develop an antioxidant supplement which may slow down sight loss in elderly people. The supplement may help those affected by the leading cause of blindness in the Western World, a five-year research program has found. Professor Usha Chakravarthy, from Queen’s Centre of Vision and Vascular Science (CVVS), co-ordinated [...]
22 Jun
Perfect Elderly Care to Your Loved One
Have you known that old age is our most difficult time? As you might have known, all of human being will surely become aging as it is inevitable. We will unable to do things we used to do when we were young. Our health will also decline significantly and we will often be sick. In [...]
22 Jun
A Meals on Wheels scam in Bennington seems to be targeting the elderly.
The head of the Bennington County Meals on Wheels says a man, who’s in his 40s or 50s, reportedly went to several businesses on Tuesday trying to sell raffle tickets on behalf of New England Meals on Wheels. The thing is, New England Meals on Wheels doesn’t exist. The man was also wearing a shirt [...]
22 Jun
Elderly Persons Living With A Spouse Report Better Preventive Care Use Than Those Living Alone Or With Children
Elderly persons living with a spouse have more timely preventive service use than those living alone or with offspring. The sole exception is in the case of hypertension screening. Data were taken from 13,038 community-dwelling elderly persons who participated in the 2002 to 2005 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. The study’s authors estimated the likelihood of [...]
19 Jun
Elderly Living in Filthy Care Homes
Thousand of elderly people are living in filthy care homes exposed to the risk of infections and malnutrition. Inspectors found one in three homes provides barely “adequate” living conditions, and rated hundreds as “poor”. It means many residents are at risk from untrained staff and low standards of cleanliness. In addition, some are not being [...]
19 Jun
Social Security and Elderly Living
One of the most important economic decisions facing the elderly living, and their families, is whether to live independently. A number of previous studies suggest that widows are fairly responsive to Social Security benefits in deciding whether to live independently. But these previous studies have either generally relied on differences in benefits across families or [...]
