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2008 May Is Mental Health Month: Stressed "Sandwich Generation" Mothers Must Care For Themselves
Today's mother often juggles full-time employment, household chores and parenting, but a growing number of women are taking on yet another responsibility-caring for an aging loved one. Next week, as Americans observe both Mother's Day and Mental Health Month, Mental Health America encourages mothers to take the Mental Health Connection Challenge by building their social support networks to help cope with the stress of their demanding lives.
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Stark And Health Subcommittee Grill CMS Over Bidding System Problems, USA
"The system is somewhere between flawed and lousy," said U.S. Representative Pete Stark (D-Calif.) in yesterday's House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee hearing on the Medicare competitive bidding program. The hearing was held because of concerns Stark and his colleagues have heard from constituents in the homecare community.
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Funding To Prevent Elder Abuse And Help Victims Achieve A Life Without Mistreatment
Weill Cornell Medical College has been awarded $80,000 to study the creation of a Manhattan Elder Abuse Case Coordination and Review Center (EACCRC), in collaboration with the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Center for Elder Abuse Prevention at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale and the New York City Elder Abuse Network.Funded by the Fan Fox & Leslie R.
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Medicare Bidding Program For Home Medical Equipment Is A 'Train Wreck' For Patients And Providers, AA Homecare Tells Ways And Means Subcommittee
In testimony today before the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health, the American Association for Homecare (AAHomecare) urged Congress to suspend a controversial, flawed Medicare bidding program for home medical equipment, calling it "a train wreck.
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Accordance Home Care Launches Operations In Huntsville
Seventy-nine percent of older Americans live in homes that they own, and most of them want to keep it that way for as long as possible. That's the reality driving the surge in professional home health care, according to Dee Harrell, founder of Accordance Home Care, which has begun providing services to the Huntsville area's aging population. "The old models for aging just don't work any more - socially, medically or economically.
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ResCare Acquires Texas Home Care Services
ResCare, Inc. (NASDAQ: RSCR) the nation's leading provider of residential, training, educational and support services for people with disabilities and special needs, announced the acquisition of Select Health Care Services, a home health care agency located in Baytown, Texas, serving 30 counties in the Houston area. Select Health Care offers programs for adult and pediatric patients that include companion care, skilled nursing, physical, occupational and speech therapy.
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Government Launches Guidance To Assist In Support For Self Care, UK
Health Minister Ivan Lewis announced the introduction of seven Common Core Principles to Support Self Care, designed to help health and social care staff support people to live independently, stay healthy and make the most of their lives by managing their conditions.
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Costs For Elder Care Increase For Fifth Consecutive Year, Study Finds
Costs for nursing homes, assisted living facilities and some in-home care services have increased for a fifth consecutive year and might continue to increase as a result of an expected shortage of long-term health care workers, according to a study released on Tuesday by Genworth Financial, the
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Functional Decline Linked To Dual Treatment Of Incontinence And Dementia
Older nursing home residents who took medications for dementia and incontinence at the same time had a 50 percent faster decline in function than those who were being treated only for dementia, according to a study from researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and colleagues."It is likely that the oppositional effects of the drugs contributed to the accelerated decline," said Kaycee M. Sink, M.D., M.A.S., lead author.
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The Gerontological Society Of America Announces 2008 Hartford Faculty Scholars
Ten outstanding geriatric social work faculty members have been chosen as the newest inductees into the Hartford Faculty Scholars Program, a venture funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation, administered by The Gerontological Society of America, and directed by Dr. Barbara Berkman.
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