ChangingAging Archive

A friend sent me this link to a Washington Post article that highlights the changing aging vibe in the DC area. It’s worth a look.

Coping With the Alternate Realities of Dementia Patients “Expert Caregiver Carol Bradley Bursack’s first blog of this same title told caregivers to “play along” with the alternate realities of their patients. Richard Taylor, author of “Alzheimer’s From the Inside Out” and a sufferer of Alzheimer’s argues differently. Carol responds to his comments in this post. […]

I found this nice article on the success of one Eden Alternative long-term care organization, the Burquitlam Lions Care Centre in British Columbia. Read the full article here

USA Today has a nice write up on some good news for people living with osteoporsis. “A new once-a-year intravenous osteoporosis treatment significantly reduced the risk of additional fractures and death in men and women who had broken a hip, researchers reported Monday.” An estimated 10 million Americans have osteoporosis — 20% of them men […]

“Her readers call her “the little granny,” and for eight months she has engrossed them with her ruminations on the present and her recollections of the past. Since her debut in cyberspace in December, María Amelia López, 95, has drawn thousands of readers from across the globe with an incisive blog.” Read the rest of […]

Nurses agree, this is not exactly news.

Opened my mailbox today (the real metal kind of mailbox at the end of the driveway) and found an interesting article in the most recent edition of the AMA News. “Trials of Treating the Elderly” offers a nice introduction to the risks new drugs pose to older patients. The Money Quote: “Older participants are not […]

The New York Times has a nice piece on the City of San Francisco’s efforts to provide health insurance to uninsured adults. This is good news because it shows that the system can be changed when principled people put their minds to work on “system change.” Still, the San Francisco program is best categorized as […]