Tag: elderly
Seniors and Bounce Back Hospital Admissions
Nearly 1-in-5 seniors who are hospitalized return to the hospital within 30 days. When seniors are readmitted repeatedly for the same ailment, it may indicate a need for the kind of ongoing care and support available at assisted living communities. One of the leading topics in healthcare today is reducing hospital readmission rates. The National…
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Everything You Know About Longevity Is Wrong
Researchers who tracked 1,500 people over 80 years have come to some surprising conclusions and the factors linked to longevity. Much of what we’ve been taught about how to live a long life may be mistaken. In 1921, just over 1,500 Californian children were selected to participate in a study led by a Stanford University psychologist, Dr….
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Happy Birthday to the World’s Oldest Woman: Misao Okawa
Happy birthday to Misao Okawa, the world’s oldest woman alive today, who turns 115 on Tuesday. Misao, born in 1897, has lived across three centuries. The world’s oldest living woman, Misao Okawa, turns 115 tomorrow in Osaka, Japan where she has lived most of her life. Misao was married in 1919 and had five children,…
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10 Medical Treatments Seniors Should Avoid (Or Question)
As consumers and advocates for our older loved ones, it’s crucial to stay informed, ask questions and get second opinions if necessary. America’s pay-per-service model of health insurance encourages providers to prescribe every test, procedure, and intervention that could be plausibly justified. The result is that many seniors are over-tested, over-treated, and over-medicated. Some medical…
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10 Reasons Families Fight About Senior Care
Caring for an aging loved one can be one of the most stressful family milestones. The sheer difficulty of the task, its high cost, as well as underlying family issues can collide to create a perfect storm of discontent. But when families put aside their differences and work together as a team for the best…
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How Do Your Aging Parents Say “I Love You”?
Caregiving often results in an outright role reversal of the parent-child relationship – the “parenting the parent” phenomena. One day we find ourselves caring for parents who are as dependent on us as we were on them during our childhood. This role inversion can be emotionally challenging for the elderly parent and the adult child….
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5 Caregiver Resolutions: A To-Do List for the New Year
New Year’s resolutions are profoundly personal and intensely optimistic. They require us to candidly appraise ourselves and our lives, and to be able to recognize areas of weakness and aspects of ourselves that need improvement. After all, we can’t fix a problem that we don’t recognize. Resolutions also require us to believe in ourselves –…
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A Startling Cause of Misdiagnosed Dementia
Look in any senior’s medicine cabinet and you’ll likely see a vast assortment of pharmaceuticals. In 2010, the Kaiser Foundation reported that the average senior is taking six prescription drugs daily. Some seniors take twice that amount. Many seniors add one or two new prescriptions to their daily routine each year until it gets to…
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5 Hidden Costs of Family Caregiving
Nearly 10 million adult children are caring for older parents in America. The unpaid care they provide is estimated to be worth $375 billion dollars per year in a report by Indiana University. Caregivers clearly take on their heroic role out of love and duty, but for many, cost is also a big part of…
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6 Survival Tips for Moving Your Elderly Loved One
Whether you’re moving your widowed mother across the country into your own home or moving both parents into a senior community, the process is always tough. Countless scenarios may necessitate relocating an elderly parent from their long-time home, but our underlying concerns are fundamentally consistent: We want to make sure their emotional well-being and health…
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