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Memory Care: Assisted Living & Long Term Care for Memory Loss

Memory care facilities provide long term care for memory loss patients. See tips for when assisted living is needed & how to pay for a residential care facility.

10 warning signs of memory loss

Memory loss is subtle and elusive, but you can tell when something’s amiss with a loved one

Alzheimer’s Whisperer: What to read or recommend to dementia patients

But, as we get older, and particularly for those facing dementia and memory impairment issues, reading can be an overwhelming task with some unfamiliar obstacles.

How to Deal with Repetition in a Loved One with Memory Loss

When a loved one with memory loss repeats the same question or phrase it can be frustrating having to repeat your answers. What can you do?

In Search Of Age-Friendly Health Care, Finding Room For Improvement

Simple alterations — like better signs, seating, parking or door design — can make it easier for older patients to navigate health care facilities. Here are several changes doctors’ offices, clinic…

Caregivers Who Assist Older Adults With Health Care Activities

This study of caregivers of older adults with disabilities with estimates extrapolated from 2 national surveys examines how caregivers’ involvement in older adults’ health care activities relates to caregiving responsibilities, supportive services use, and caregiving-related effects.

Senior Life: Getting the care you need: Find your health care 'quarterback'

(BPT) - Are you 65 or older? While your primary care doctor may be an internist or general practitioner, have you thought about adding a geriatrician to your health care

When Seeking Value, Look to Home Health Care

In a recent communication, former Acting Administrator for the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services Andy Slavitt said, “Home Health Agency services are a critical part of the health care continuum and are instrumental in helping a patient with Medicare benefits recover after an illness or injury.”

Can entrepreneurial geriatrics fight ageism in health care?

Though I've studied geriatrics for nearly 20 years, it's these innovators who are cultivating an entirely new mindset for aging care.

Senior Home Health Care: Fall Prevention and Seniors

With temperatures skirting the 90 and 100-degree marks, seniors are at a high risk of suffering from heat-related illnesses. Family caregivers can take

Could You Afford Home Health Care? Maybe Not

Only two out of five older adults with significant disabilities have the assets on hand to pay for at least a couple of years of extensive in-home care, researchers found.

Residential Home Inspection: Everything You Need to Know

Failing to have a professional residential home inspection done prior to purchasing the home can lead to a great deal of headaches down the road.

Disease Care or Health Care?

Chiropractors provide health care. They concern themselves with interference to the system of the body that controls all functions—the nerve system. Vertebral subluxations cause interference to t…

Housing is Health Care—and Health Care Can Build Housing

Traditionally, the housing and health care industries have viewed one another as distinct. This distinction has prohibited us from seeing our broader intersections with economic, social and racial equity—and the solutions.

Why is collaboration missing in health care?

Collaboration by health care professionals is an essential element.

Is There a Right to Health Care?

Saying people have a right to health care is based on a conceptual confusion.

What to look for in a health care proxy

A health care proxy, also sometimes known as an agent or the person named in your healthcare power of attorney, is going to make decisions for you when necessary. Using a medical power of attorney is a very common part of estate planning. You get to select the person who can make medical choices if

Attacks on health care questions and answers

Health Care Stocks: Are They More Speculative?

Health care stocks may no longer be a defensive play for investors.