What are the most common chronic medical conditions of people who live in residential care facilities, including assisted living communities? This graph depicts the 10 most common chronic conditions of residential care residents. The data come from a …
Continue ReadingThis interesting article, Nursing Homes Trend Toward More Homey, Less Institutional Settings, in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle describes the quality-of-life changes that residents and families experience when a family member lives in a Green …
Continue ReadingRead the March 7, 2012 Atlantic article, Making the Best of What is Often the Very Worst Time of Our Lives. Whether we are helping to support aging parents right now or thinking about the years when we become elderly adults, we all know the situation. This piece is an excerpt from the book, “The Best Care Possible: A Physician’s Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life,” by Ira Byock, the director or palliative medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
Continue ReadingIn Slow Starvation of Senior Services columnist Howard Gleckman writes that Congress, shortly before going on Christmas recess, cut funding for a number of services for seniors and elderly Americans. He describes how some program budgets for senio…
Continue ReadingTake a few minutes to check out and consider reading Growing Up is Hard to Do: Forced into Adulthood by an Aging Parent, by Sarah Khan. Her dad was hospitalized at 62, though he was still employed and went back to work after his hospitalization. The a…
Continue ReadingJanuary 5, 2012 Click on each thumbnail to see a larger image. Other blog posts on the new Green House® Homes at VMRC All About the VMRC Woodland Park Groundbreaking Green Houses for Older Elders Replacing a Nursing Community with Green House Homes…
Continue ReadingI am astonished at the number of diagnostic tests prescribed for older seniors. When my husband’s mother was 90, she had a gynecological exam — we suggested it and the doctor carried it out — and though I knew the doctor was gentle, M…
Continue ReadingI’ve just finished reading You Can See Mortality Better Through a Pair of Reading Glasses, an essay in today’s Washington Post. The opinion piece, by Janice Lynch Schuster, looks at reading glasses — and how nearly all of us eventual…
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