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• Docs Feel Stress When Patients Cant Make Own Decisions - in Geriatrics, General Geriatrics from MedPage Today

  
  Your Learning Guide In Surgery And Surgical Treatments — Authority: 118
  Medical News: Docs Feel Stress When Patients Cant Make Own Decisions - in Geriatrics, General Geriatrics from MedPage Today
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• Shifting Vaccine for Flu to Elderly

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 912
  SUPPLY Nursing homes say they have gotten fewer vaccine doses than expected.
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• Californians Seeking Home Based Healthcare – Watch for More Monitoring Devices To Interact

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  The California HealthCare Foundation now has a page for additional information and yes, just due to our population numbers in California it makes sense that we would have more individuals looking for Home Based Healthcare.  In short, this means devices are on the way, home monitoring, PHR or personal health ...
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• My philosophy of "Old Stuff"

  
  Mamas*Little*Treasures — Authority: 122
  Ive always known (kind of) about the Chinese culture, which holds great reverence for their ancestors and elderly relatives.  So much so, that sons of Chinese families, traditionally, care for their aging parents, while daughters typically marry into another family and help care for the aging parents of their ...
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• Journal of Medical Ethics 2009 (Vol. 35, No. 11)

  
  Fade Library — Authority: 147
  Journal of Medical Ethics 2009 (Vol. 35, No. 11) content page Fade Fave: Autonomy at the end of life: life-prolonging treatment in nursing homes—relatives’ role in the decision-making process Fade Skinny: The increasing number of elderly people in nursing homes with failing competence to give consent ...
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• Care Home Let Gran, 90, Wander Out and Freeze to Death (UK)

  
  Spotlight on Elder Abuse — Authority: 140
  By  Nick Owens   22/11/2009 No one noticed for three hours A woman of 90 died from hypothermia after she wandered away from her care home for 16 hours. Former nurse Margaret Titchmarsh froze to death when she disappeared on a bitterly cold night in a thin summer dress. ...
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• An Emotional Week… or So

  
  Walking Therein — Authority: 121
  In the past few months, we have had a lot of death in our family and on our farm. I know they have been learning experiences and times to draw on Yahweh himself and also draw closer to each other. In the past month, we have had 2 Grandfathers pass away and a new Baby [...]
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• If I Were An Inventor...

  
  Mother Talkers — Authority: 142
  I smiled at this doodad in Japan. From the CrunchGear blog : A research laboratory at Japan’s Ritsumeikan University has developed a monitoring system for wet diapers that consists of a self-powered sensor/transmitter and a receiver and is supposed to assist staff in hospitals and nursing homes in performing ...
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• Melroses EPOCH Abuse Case Continued Without a Finding (CA. USA)

  
  Spotlight on Elder Abuse — Authority: 140
  By Daniel DeMaina Nov 19, 2009 A former certified nurse aide at Melrose’s   EPOCH Senior Healthcare   nursing home, who in August pled not guilty to charges that she punched and pushed down an 83-year-old resident of the nursing home who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, changed her ...
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• Ministry of Health Changes Audit Rules After Rest Home Closure (NEW ZEALAND)

  
  Spotlight on Elder Abuse — Authority: 140
  Ministry Of Health Changes Audit Rules After Rest Home Closure 18 November, 2009   The Ministry of Health has changed rest home inspection procedures, following criticism in the wake of the closing of a Palmerston North home yesterday. After receiving photographs of a 103-year-old resident tied to a ...
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• Report: Health reform measure insolvent by 2025

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 503
  A key component of Congress plan to overhaul the U.S. health-care system could become insolvent by 2025, according to a government report. The component -- known as the CLASS Act -- is an insurance plan to help the elderly and disabled pay for in-home care rather than using nursing homes. Voluntary participants would ...
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• Anti-Psychotic Drugts Kill 2,000 British Dementia Patients Each Year (UK)

  
  Spotlight on Elder Abuse — Authority: 140
  Anti-Psychotic Drugs Kill 2,000 British Dementia Patients Each Year By   Owen Bowcot November 15, 2009 (Guardian/UK) Nearly 2,000 elderly patients are killed each year by unnecessary anti-psychotic medication, report finds. Treatment of dementia patients has been promised by the ...
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• From a Strip Mall, Chicago Psychiatrist Delivers High-Risk Meds, Cut-Rate Care To Elderly

  
  KEVIN MILLER'S WORLD — Authority: 100
  by Christina Jewett, ProPublica, and Sam Roe, Chicago Tribune Dr. Michael Reinstein is one of the most prolific providers of psychiatric care in Chicago-area nursing homes and mental health facilities. But he is trailed by lawsuits and complaints while getting government reimbursement for seeing a large number of ...
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• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
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• Tribune investigates nursing home psychiatrist

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 477
  In the latest installment of the Chicago Tribune ’s investigation into Illinois nursing homes , Sam Roe and ProPublica’s Christina Jewett investigate Dr. Michael Reinstein , an impressively prolific prescriber who, in 2007, wrote more prescriptions for clozapine (”a potent psychotropic medication that carries ...
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• The Power of the Human Touch

  
  Hypnosis Melbourne — Authority: 447
  Some people may not realize this but human touch has intense positive effects on overall health. In fact, people who are touch deprived are prone to diseases and emotional dysfunction. In nursing homes, tactile stimulation and caring touch are utilized to give patients a sense of security. Read more from the original ...
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• One Patient: Sixty Seven Different Drugs

  
  National Association to Stop Guardian Abuse — Authority: 143
  The scariest wrinkle in the Omnicare kickback case is just how vulnerable old people in nursing homes are to schemes in which drug companies allegedly induce pharmacies to prescribe drugs they otherwise wouldn’t. One patient cited by the government’s complaint received 67 — sixty-seven! – different drugs ...
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• Americans Lacking in Long-Term Care Knowledge

  
  Who Moved My Dentures? Musings on Aging and Health Care — Authority: 123
  Overall, Americans did not do well on a survey of their long-term care knowledge , according to results gathered by the MetLife Mature Market Institute. Most know what long-term care is and how much it costs, but their scores fall short regarding how many people will need it and how they will pay for it. ...
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• What is the History of Our Future?

  
  The Future of Aging Blog — Authority: 125
  Below is my State of the Association speech from the 2009 AAHSA Annual Meeting and Exposition in Chicago:Our members at Selfhelp in New York had a great theme a couple of years ago: “Our past propels us forward.” It conveys how four generations of values and mission are being transformed into contemporary programs ...
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• Better water-management can keep water borne diseases at bay: Trivedi

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  New Delhi, Nov. 10 (ANI): Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Dinesh Trivedi, on Tuesday called for the need to have better water management, as it could help in keeping many water borne diseases like Dengue at bay.“If you don’t do water management then if it’s drought or its floods or it’s ...
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