Making the decision for nursing home care for a parent is often an emotional and exhausting experience.
Whenever possible the patient should sign the contract. Individual state laws, as well as federal laws, forbid a nursing home from requiring that a third party sign the admission agreement in order for a patient to be admitted.
The use of angiotensin receptor blockers was associated with significant reductions in both the occurrence rate and progression of Alzheimer's disease, researchers here reported.
AMNews: Aug. 4, 2008. Assessing self-neglect in older patients ... American Medical News.
Self-neglect is the inability to care for one's own basic needs, including health, welfare and safety. In two national studies, self-neglect was cited most often for referrals to adult protective services, more common than any category of elder mistreatment, including neglect by others. Older people who do not care for their own health and well-being adequately typically have functional impairments and lack necessary support networks; ultimately, they lack the cognitive capacity for self-protection.
Coronary heart disease in midlife is associated with poorer results on cognitive tests, such as reasoning, vocabulary, and verbal fluency, with the effect particularly marked in men, a study found
Older adults took longer to fall asleep and spent less time asleep, contributing to an overall reduction of about 1.5 hours in total sleep time compared with younger adults, Elizabeth Klerman, M.D., of Harvard, and Derk-Jan Dijk, Ph.D., of the University of Surrey in England, reported in the Aug. 5 issue of Current Biology.
Lewy Body or Alzheimer's: Do You Need to Know What KIND of Dementia? | Caring.com.
This week's passing of "Golden Girls" actress Estelle Getty, who died of Lewy Body Dementia (LBD), shone a golden light on a very common type of dementia that's often overshadowed by Alzheimer's.
Mild memory impairment may be associated with a sound processing disorder called central auditory processing dysfunction, say U.S. researchers.
Memory Problems Tied to Sound Processing Disorder - US News and World Report.
Patient Voices - Bipolar Disorder - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com.
What is it like to have bipolar disorder? To be labeled "crazy"? How do you balance the ups and downs? Here, in their own words, are the stories of nine men and women living with bipolar disorder.
The drug, pentobarbital, literally takes a person’s breath away. It can kill by putting people to sleep, and it is tightly regulated in most countries. But aging and ailing people seeking a quick and painless way to end their lives say there is no easier place on earth than Mexico to obtain pentobarbital, a barbiturate commonly known as Nembutal.
Staying fit may help keep Alzheimer's disease at bay, researchers here said. Individuals with early-stage Alzheimer's disease and relatively high peak oxygen consumption during a treadmill test showed less brain atrophy than other early Alzheimer's disease patients who were less fit, reported Jeffrey M. Burns, M.D., of the University of Kansas, and colleagues in the July 15 issue of Neurology.
