When a nursing home doesn't feel like the right move, home health care can be a good option. Here's how to make your decision
By Beth Piskora
Your mother doesn't see as well as she used to, and sometimes has trouble walking. You wonder if it's a good idea for her to stay alone in that house, or if there is a better option for her. But you just can't stomach the idea of putting mom in a nursing home.
You're not alone.
According to the National Academy on Aging Society, there are 8.5 million people over age 70 in America with limitations in walking, dressing, bathing, shopping, paying bills, and preparing meals. This number will increase dramatically in the future, perhaps to 21 million in the next quarter century, according to estimates. In addition, the National Association of Home Care & Hospice Care reports the number of home-care agencies has increased to 17,700 in what has become a $53.4 billion industry. Readhttp://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/sep2008/pi20080910_761489.htm
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
The Anti-Aging Diet
Can what you eat help you age gracefully?
By Kathleen M. Zelman, MPH
WebMD Weight Loss Clinic-Feature
Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
It seems we're all trying to find the "magic bullet" that delays the natural aging process. Put an antiaging label on most any product, and it flies off the shelves.
Yet if you're trying to look your best without going under the knife, a secret ingredient might be right under your nose. Some experts say one answer to aging gracefully can be found in the grocery store -- in fruits, vegetables, green tea, and a host of other healthful foods that are rich in antioxidants and other potentially age-deterring compounds.
What Is Aging?
Of course, the signs of aging include not only wrinkles, but also memory loss, decreased brain function, and an increasing risk for chronic diseases such as heart disease, osteoporosis, and cancer. Healthy aging is also defined as living a longer, healthier life. And many studies have documented the link between a healthy diet and prevention of age-related or chronic diseases.
Adopting a healthy lifestyle that includes regular physical activity, adequate rest, avoiding tobacco, and a diet full of healthy foods and beverages can be the best defense against aging.
"Dietary choices are critical to delay the onset of aging and age-related diseases, and the sooner you start, the greater the benefit," says Susan Moores, RD, a spokesman for the American Dietetic Association.
Antioxidants and Inflammation
Some foods and beverages contain powerful substances called phytonutrients that some believe are capable of unlocking the key to longevity. Phytonutrients, which are members of the antioxidant family, gobble up "free radicals" -- oxygen molecules that play a role in the onset of illnesses such as heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, and Alzheimer's disease. Read morehttp://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/guide/anti-aging-diet
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By Kathleen M. Zelman, MPH
WebMD Weight Loss Clinic-Feature
Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
It seems we're all trying to find the "magic bullet" that delays the natural aging process. Put an antiaging label on most any product, and it flies off the shelves.
Yet if you're trying to look your best without going under the knife, a secret ingredient might be right under your nose. Some experts say one answer to aging gracefully can be found in the grocery store -- in fruits, vegetables, green tea, and a host of other healthful foods that are rich in antioxidants and other potentially age-deterring compounds.
What Is Aging?
Of course, the signs of aging include not only wrinkles, but also memory loss, decreased brain function, and an increasing risk for chronic diseases such as heart disease, osteoporosis, and cancer. Healthy aging is also defined as living a longer, healthier life. And many studies have documented the link between a healthy diet and prevention of age-related or chronic diseases.
Adopting a healthy lifestyle that includes regular physical activity, adequate rest, avoiding tobacco, and a diet full of healthy foods and beverages can be the best defense against aging.
"Dietary choices are critical to delay the onset of aging and age-related diseases, and the sooner you start, the greater the benefit," says Susan Moores, RD, a spokesman for the American Dietetic Association.
Antioxidants and Inflammation
Some foods and beverages contain powerful substances called phytonutrients that some believe are capable of unlocking the key to longevity. Phytonutrients, which are members of the antioxidant family, gobble up "free radicals" -- oxygen molecules that play a role in the onset of illnesses such as heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, and Alzheimer's disease. Read morehttp://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/guide/anti-aging-diet
Verlia Caldwell, Pres.
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Limited Mobility of Another Sort
By Paula Span
In theory, the continuing care retirement community, or C.C.R.C., makes great sense: build different types of senior housing on a single campus, or even in a single building, so that as residents need more care, they can transfer within the facility — from independent living apartments to assisted living units to a nursing home — instead of being uprooted from familiar surroundings. More than a half-million older Americans find this an attractive idea and have moved into such a retirement community.
Yet ever since reporting a few years ago in an assisted living facility in Bethesda, Md., and hearing about a resident who pushed the wrong elevator button and then screamed in horror when the doors opened onto the nursing home floor, I have wondered how these transitions work in practice.
Tetyana Shippee, a research associate at the Center on Aging and the Life Course at Purdue University, chose an unorthodox way to learn more. Ms. Shippee, then 21, moved into a C.C.R.C. in a Midwestern town and, for two years, observed, ate with, got to know and interviewed its residents.
Ms. Shippee’s findings, recently published in The Gerontologist, show how elusive the aging-in-place ideal remains, even in a facility expressly set up to foster it.
People liked their independent living apartments just fine, Ms. Shippee discovered, but were often reluctant to move to assisted living when their health and mobility declined. “There was a certain level of stigma involved,” she said. It was not that the assisted living units and nursing home, with their separate dining room, were particularly far away; they were just a seven-minute walk from the independent living apartments. “Mostly,” she explained, “there are social boundaries.”
In Ms. Shippee’s facility, where introductory tours often bypassed the assisted living/nursing wing altogether, the health and vigor required for independent living had become an important source of status. To leave an independent living apartment meant not only losing one’s home and social network, but also a part of one’s identity. Friendships often did not survive the move; visits became more like duties or favors than part of reciprocal relationships. Small wonder, then, that Ms. Shippee observed anger, stress and a keen sense of loss when residents were faced with moving.
It is possibly different in other facilities. At least, said Steve Maag of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging, a C.C.R.C. allows for the possibility of continuing social connections, so much harder to maintain across geographic distances. Mr. Maag pointed out, too, that C.C.R.C.’s were adapting to these unexpected social wrinkles, adding home care programs to accommodate residents who did not want to move.
But wasn’t the ability to move within the facility — with the assurance that as one needed more help one could remain socially connected — the whole point of selecting a continuing care community?
The prospect of an involuntary move led Sally Herriot, who cherished her cozy independent-living apartment in Palo Alto, Calif., to make a federal case of the issue — literally. Mrs. Herriot already employed private aides and had agreed to increase their hours, but in 2006, when C.C.R.C. administrators told her she would have to move into assisted living anyway, she filed suit in federal court and charged that forcing her to move was a violation of the Fair Housing Act. “It amounted to a loss of control, a lack of privacy and dignity,” her son Robert Herriot said.
A judge sympathized but ruled that state law permitted the C.C.R.C. to make such decisions. Mrs. Herriot, represented by AARP lawyers and by Relman & Dane, a civil rights firm in Washington, has appealed the verdict; meanwhile, Mrs. Herriot, 91 and very frail, remains in her apartment with her helpers.
Could C.C.R.C.’s improve the situation by promoting more interaction, with less physical and social separatism, among residents who require different levels of care?
“Independent living residents don’t like that,” Ms. Shippee pointed out. “They view themselves as healthy and active. If you try to integrate them with people in wheelchairs who have problems, they will object.”
In the dining room, she added, “they want to feel like they’re in a nice restaurant, conversing with friends; they don’t want to be faced with those in declining health.”
Mr. Herriot has heard of residents who have gone so far as to conceal their health problems, fearing that they will be the next ones moved.
So much for theory. Most C.C.R.C. residents who are told to move will comply, but having to leave a home is disruptive and distressing, it seems, whether you are moving 7 minutes or 70 miles away.
Paula Span is the author of “When the Time Comes: Families With Aging Parents Share Their Struggles and Solutions.”
Verlia Caldwell, Pres.
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In theory, the continuing care retirement community, or C.C.R.C., makes great sense: build different types of senior housing on a single campus, or even in a single building, so that as residents need more care, they can transfer within the facility — from independent living apartments to assisted living units to a nursing home — instead of being uprooted from familiar surroundings. More than a half-million older Americans find this an attractive idea and have moved into such a retirement community.
Yet ever since reporting a few years ago in an assisted living facility in Bethesda, Md., and hearing about a resident who pushed the wrong elevator button and then screamed in horror when the doors opened onto the nursing home floor, I have wondered how these transitions work in practice.
Tetyana Shippee, a research associate at the Center on Aging and the Life Course at Purdue University, chose an unorthodox way to learn more. Ms. Shippee, then 21, moved into a C.C.R.C. in a Midwestern town and, for two years, observed, ate with, got to know and interviewed its residents.
Ms. Shippee’s findings, recently published in The Gerontologist, show how elusive the aging-in-place ideal remains, even in a facility expressly set up to foster it.
People liked their independent living apartments just fine, Ms. Shippee discovered, but were often reluctant to move to assisted living when their health and mobility declined. “There was a certain level of stigma involved,” she said. It was not that the assisted living units and nursing home, with their separate dining room, were particularly far away; they were just a seven-minute walk from the independent living apartments. “Mostly,” she explained, “there are social boundaries.”
In Ms. Shippee’s facility, where introductory tours often bypassed the assisted living/nursing wing altogether, the health and vigor required for independent living had become an important source of status. To leave an independent living apartment meant not only losing one’s home and social network, but also a part of one’s identity. Friendships often did not survive the move; visits became more like duties or favors than part of reciprocal relationships. Small wonder, then, that Ms. Shippee observed anger, stress and a keen sense of loss when residents were faced with moving.
It is possibly different in other facilities. At least, said Steve Maag of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging, a C.C.R.C. allows for the possibility of continuing social connections, so much harder to maintain across geographic distances. Mr. Maag pointed out, too, that C.C.R.C.’s were adapting to these unexpected social wrinkles, adding home care programs to accommodate residents who did not want to move.
But wasn’t the ability to move within the facility — with the assurance that as one needed more help one could remain socially connected — the whole point of selecting a continuing care community?
The prospect of an involuntary move led Sally Herriot, who cherished her cozy independent-living apartment in Palo Alto, Calif., to make a federal case of the issue — literally. Mrs. Herriot already employed private aides and had agreed to increase their hours, but in 2006, when C.C.R.C. administrators told her she would have to move into assisted living anyway, she filed suit in federal court and charged that forcing her to move was a violation of the Fair Housing Act. “It amounted to a loss of control, a lack of privacy and dignity,” her son Robert Herriot said.
A judge sympathized but ruled that state law permitted the C.C.R.C. to make such decisions. Mrs. Herriot, represented by AARP lawyers and by Relman & Dane, a civil rights firm in Washington, has appealed the verdict; meanwhile, Mrs. Herriot, 91 and very frail, remains in her apartment with her helpers.
Could C.C.R.C.’s improve the situation by promoting more interaction, with less physical and social separatism, among residents who require different levels of care?
“Independent living residents don’t like that,” Ms. Shippee pointed out. “They view themselves as healthy and active. If you try to integrate them with people in wheelchairs who have problems, they will object.”
In the dining room, she added, “they want to feel like they’re in a nice restaurant, conversing with friends; they don’t want to be faced with those in declining health.”
Mr. Herriot has heard of residents who have gone so far as to conceal their health problems, fearing that they will be the next ones moved.
So much for theory. Most C.C.R.C. residents who are told to move will comply, but having to leave a home is disruptive and distressing, it seems, whether you are moving 7 minutes or 70 miles away.
Paula Span is the author of “When the Time Comes: Families With Aging Parents Share Their Struggles and Solutions.”
Verlia Caldwell, Pres.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
The Power of Prevention
The most effective way of lowering healthcare costs starts with each of us managing our own health. Preventive steps like these can help Americans avoid chronic diseases:
* Eating well.
* Vaccinations.
* Wellness visits.
Some chronic diseases and their complications can be prevented. In fact, a nonprofit health advocacy group, Trust for America’s Health, issued a report in July 2008 which studied the impact of community health programs for physical activity, healthy eating, and smoking cessation. The study found that within 2 years, these programs can reduce levels of diabetes and blood pressure by 5% and, within 10 to 20 years, some forms of cancer. It also found that states could save up to $9.90 per $1 invested in prevention programs, resulting in millions of dollars over just a few years.4
Continue reading http://www.forahealthieramerica.com/ts/prevention.html
References:
1. Thorpe K., et al., “Trends: The Impact of Obesity on Rising Healthcare Costs,” Health Affairs, web exclusive, October 20, 2004.
2. Weight–control Information Network. Statistics Related to Overweight and Obesity. Bethesda, MD: Weight-control Information Network, 2007. Available at http://win.niddk.nih.gov/statistics/index.htm. Accessed May 18, 2007.
3. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Fact Sheet: Health Effects of Cigarette Smoking. Atlanta: CDC, 2007. Available at http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/Factsheets/health_effects.htm. Accessed May 18, 2007.
4. American Heart Association, 2008
5. CDC. National Vital Statistics Reports: Deaths: Final Costs for 2000. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics; 2002.
6. NCHS “Number of Deaths from 113 selected causes by age: US 2005”
7. US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, JAMA 2003;290:1884-1890.
Verlia Caldwell, Pres.
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* Eating well.
* Vaccinations.
* Wellness visits.
Some chronic diseases and their complications can be prevented. In fact, a nonprofit health advocacy group, Trust for America’s Health, issued a report in July 2008 which studied the impact of community health programs for physical activity, healthy eating, and smoking cessation. The study found that within 2 years, these programs can reduce levels of diabetes and blood pressure by 5% and, within 10 to 20 years, some forms of cancer. It also found that states could save up to $9.90 per $1 invested in prevention programs, resulting in millions of dollars over just a few years.4
Continue reading http://www.forahealthieramerica.com/ts/prevention.html
References:
1. Thorpe K., et al., “Trends: The Impact of Obesity on Rising Healthcare Costs,” Health Affairs, web exclusive, October 20, 2004.
2. Weight–control Information Network. Statistics Related to Overweight and Obesity. Bethesda, MD: Weight-control Information Network, 2007. Available at http://win.niddk.nih.gov/statistics/index.htm. Accessed May 18, 2007.
3. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Fact Sheet: Health Effects of Cigarette Smoking. Atlanta: CDC, 2007. Available at http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/Factsheets/health_effects.htm. Accessed May 18, 2007.
4. American Heart Association, 2008
5. CDC. National Vital Statistics Reports: Deaths: Final Costs for 2000. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics; 2002.
6. NCHS “Number of Deaths from 113 selected causes by age: US 2005”
7. US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, JAMA 2003;290:1884-1890.
Verlia Caldwell, Pres.
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Domestic Violence Linked to Clinical Illness
By Rick Nauert PhD Senior News Editor
Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on October 13, 2009
Domestic Violence Linked to Clinical IllnessNew research discovers a physically abusive relationship influences health in a far wider spectrum than initially believed.
In addition to mental trauma and musculoskeletal injuries, women abused by intimate partners suffer higher rates of a wide variety of doctor-diagnosed medical maladies compared to women who were never abused.
In the study of more than 3,000 women, researchers discovered many health problems not commonly associated with violence, such as abdominal pain, chest pain, headaches, acid reflux, urinary tract infections, and menstrual disorders.
“Roughly half of the diagnoses we examined were more common in abused women than in other women,” said Amy Bonomi, lead author of the study and associate professor of human development and family science at Ohio State University.
“Abuse is associated with much more than cuts and bruises.”
Compared with never-abused women, victims had an almost six-fold increase in clinically identified substance abuse, a more than three-fold increase in receiving a depression diagnosis, a three-fold increase in sexually transmitted diseases and a two-fold increase in lacerations.
Bonomi led the study, co-authored with researchers from the Group Health Research Institute and the University of Washington in Seattle, and published in the Oct. 12, 2009 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
Their research examined data from 3,568 randomly selected women patients at Group Health Cooperative, a health system in the Pacific Northwest. All women in the study consented to giving researchers confidential access to their medical records.
Women in the study were surveyed by telephone about whether they experienced any physical, sexual or psychological abuse from intimate partners, including husbands and boyfriends, within the past year.
Researchers then checked their medical records from the past year to see the diagnoses they had received from doctors in primary, specialty and emergency care settings.
The researchers then compared the diagnoses of the 242 abused women with the remaining women who had never been abused.
While other research has found a link between intimate partner violence and health, this is among the first major studies that has not relied on self-reports by women about their health status.
“We were able to go to the medical records and find out what abuse victims had been formally diagnosed with in the past year,” Bonomi said.
“These women are not just saying they are depressed or have cuts and bruises,” she stressed. “They are going to the doctor and having their problems diagnosed.”
In addition, the study improves on past work because it includes a random sample of women enrolled in the health plan, and not just women who were already seeking some kind of health services.
Bonomi noted that many of the doctors involved in treating these women probably didn’t know of their abuse history.
“For most women, abuse likely never enters into the conversation with their doctors,” she said.
The results suggest that physicians should use a “targeted screening” approach with their female patients to determine if they are being abused.
Any women who come to the doctor with complaints of depression, substance abuse, sexually transmitted disease, or cuts and bruises should be interviewed about the possibility of abuse.
“Many women may not volunteer that they are in abusive relationships, so health care providers should be suspicious if their female patients have any of these diagnoses and symptoms that occur much more often among abuse victims,” she said.
Bonomi said these results may be conservative, and that many abused women may suffer even higher rates of some health problems than the study suggests. That’s because the participants in this study all had health insurance, and research shows that women who are not consistently insured have higher rates of intimate partner violence and may have worse health overall.
Source: Ohio State University
Verlia Caldwell, Pres.
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Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on October 13, 2009
Domestic Violence Linked to Clinical IllnessNew research discovers a physically abusive relationship influences health in a far wider spectrum than initially believed.
In addition to mental trauma and musculoskeletal injuries, women abused by intimate partners suffer higher rates of a wide variety of doctor-diagnosed medical maladies compared to women who were never abused.
In the study of more than 3,000 women, researchers discovered many health problems not commonly associated with violence, such as abdominal pain, chest pain, headaches, acid reflux, urinary tract infections, and menstrual disorders.
“Roughly half of the diagnoses we examined were more common in abused women than in other women,” said Amy Bonomi, lead author of the study and associate professor of human development and family science at Ohio State University.
“Abuse is associated with much more than cuts and bruises.”
Compared with never-abused women, victims had an almost six-fold increase in clinically identified substance abuse, a more than three-fold increase in receiving a depression diagnosis, a three-fold increase in sexually transmitted diseases and a two-fold increase in lacerations.
Bonomi led the study, co-authored with researchers from the Group Health Research Institute and the University of Washington in Seattle, and published in the Oct. 12, 2009 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
Their research examined data from 3,568 randomly selected women patients at Group Health Cooperative, a health system in the Pacific Northwest. All women in the study consented to giving researchers confidential access to their medical records.
Women in the study were surveyed by telephone about whether they experienced any physical, sexual or psychological abuse from intimate partners, including husbands and boyfriends, within the past year.
Researchers then checked their medical records from the past year to see the diagnoses they had received from doctors in primary, specialty and emergency care settings.
The researchers then compared the diagnoses of the 242 abused women with the remaining women who had never been abused.
While other research has found a link between intimate partner violence and health, this is among the first major studies that has not relied on self-reports by women about their health status.
“We were able to go to the medical records and find out what abuse victims had been formally diagnosed with in the past year,” Bonomi said.
“These women are not just saying they are depressed or have cuts and bruises,” she stressed. “They are going to the doctor and having their problems diagnosed.”
In addition, the study improves on past work because it includes a random sample of women enrolled in the health plan, and not just women who were already seeking some kind of health services.
Bonomi noted that many of the doctors involved in treating these women probably didn’t know of their abuse history.
“For most women, abuse likely never enters into the conversation with their doctors,” she said.
The results suggest that physicians should use a “targeted screening” approach with their female patients to determine if they are being abused.
Any women who come to the doctor with complaints of depression, substance abuse, sexually transmitted disease, or cuts and bruises should be interviewed about the possibility of abuse.
“Many women may not volunteer that they are in abusive relationships, so health care providers should be suspicious if their female patients have any of these diagnoses and symptoms that occur much more often among abuse victims,” she said.
Bonomi said these results may be conservative, and that many abused women may suffer even higher rates of some health problems than the study suggests. That’s because the participants in this study all had health insurance, and research shows that women who are not consistently insured have higher rates of intimate partner violence and may have worse health overall.
Source: Ohio State University
Verlia Caldwell, Pres.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Prepare to Care
A planning guide for families
Source: AARP.org
Today, 44 million households are providing care for an adult over the age of 50—and that number is expected to double over the next 25 years. If you have not yet begun to discuss a caregiving plan with your family, it’s not too late. It doesn’t matter who starts the conversation. What really matters is that every family has the opportunity to talk about and create a caregiving plan for their loved ones based on the needs and wishes of those who will be receiving the care.
Each of the following five steps in PDF format (requires free Adobe Reader) includes information on how to get started, questions to ask and where to find basic resources. Don’t be discouraged if you can’t answer every question or fill in every blank.
The important thing is to start the conversation in a way that works for you and your family:
Step 1: Prepare to Talk
Step 2: Form Your Team
Step 3: Gather and Organize Information
Step 4: Make a Plan
Step 5: Take Action
Readhttp://www.aarp.org/makeadifference/gettinghelp/articles/prepare_to_care.html
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Source: AARP.org
Today, 44 million households are providing care for an adult over the age of 50—and that number is expected to double over the next 25 years. If you have not yet begun to discuss a caregiving plan with your family, it’s not too late. It doesn’t matter who starts the conversation. What really matters is that every family has the opportunity to talk about and create a caregiving plan for their loved ones based on the needs and wishes of those who will be receiving the care.
Each of the following five steps in PDF format (requires free Adobe Reader) includes information on how to get started, questions to ask and where to find basic resources. Don’t be discouraged if you can’t answer every question or fill in every blank.
The important thing is to start the conversation in a way that works for you and your family:
Step 1: Prepare to Talk
Step 2: Form Your Team
Step 3: Gather and Organize Information
Step 4: Make a Plan
Step 5: Take Action
Readhttp://www.aarp.org/makeadifference/gettinghelp/articles/prepare_to_care.html
Verlia Caldwell, Pres.
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