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The Difficulties Of Early Identification Of Dementia - May 27, 2009
Source: Elin Lindstrom Claessen, University of Gothenburg
Article Date: 21 May 2009 – 5:00 PDT
If grandma seems to forget things, will she end up demented? These days, memory loss is one of the very few symptoms that may signal which 70-year-olds risk developing dementia. This is shown in a doctoral thesis at [...]
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Ensuring Seniors Are Safe And Secure During Emergencies - May 27, 2009
Source: Susan Smith, Inderscience Publishers Article Date: 20 May 2009 – 0:00 PDT
Planning for emergencies must take into account the growing numbers of frail elderly people who will by virtue of shifting demographics be involved in any natural or manmade disaster, according to US researchers writing in the International Journal of Emergency Management. [...]
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Elderly Persons Living With A Spouse Report Better Preventive Care Use Than Those Living Alone Or With Children - May 27, 2009
Source American Journal of Public Health
Article Date: 18 May 2009 – 3:00 PDTElderly 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 [...]
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Elderly Women With ‘Dowager’s Hump’ May Be At Higher Risk Of Earlier Death - May 27, 2009
Source: University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
26 May 2009 Hyperkyphosis, or "dowager’s hump" the exaggerated forward curvature of the upper spine seen commonly in elderly women may predict earlier death in women whether or not they have vertebral osteoporosis, UCLA researchers have found. In a study published in the May 19 issue [...]
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Elderly need more ’sun vitamin’ - May 27, 2009
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Spending more time in the sun could help older people cut their risk of heart disease and diabetes say experts.
Sun exposure helps the skin make vitamin D – a vitamin older people are generally deficient in due to their lifestyles and ageing processes.
A team at Warwick University has shown a deficiency increases the [...]
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Alta Kocker Humor, For All Ages - May 26, 2009
Old jokes, old joke-tellers: Jewish humor hits the Web
by Sharon Udasin
Posing in a black-banded khaki-colored fedora as kitschy klezmer Muzak introduces his routine, Neil Lawner gestures loudly with outstretched arms and tells a joke about newlywed Luigi, who rode a train to Florida with his new bride Virginia, and tragically, mistook the station stop “Norfolk” [...]
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Winnipeg Jewish seniors centre loses major funder - May 26, 2009
By MYRON LOVE, Prairies Correspondent
WINNIPEG — As if facing a $25,000 deficit for its kosher meals-on-wheels program wasn’t enough in the way of tzuris, the Gwen Secter Creative Living Centre has just been dealt another financial body blow.
On April 7, the day before Pesach, the Gwen Secter’s executive director, Marilyn Regiec, received a letter [...]
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Looking to the Future - May 26, 2009
JOYCE S. ANDERSON
After a whirlwind of legislation and glimmers of financial recovery in the First Hundred Days of the Obama administration, we can stop and take a look at some of the signs of where we are going next.
• Health Care: President Barack Obama has placed an overhaul of our massive health care [...]
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Halachic and medical guidelines while caring for your parents [video included] - May 19, 2009
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