Long Term Care and Long Term Care Insurance
A person might need long term care (LTC) if he/she cannot perform activities of daily living such as eating, taking shower or getting dressed by him/herself anymore. Certain disease can also make long term care necessary.
Senior Living Communities Adopting New Program and Online Tool to Help Residents Create Autobiographies
LifeBio.com empowers residents to record their life stories and preserve a lasting legacy for future generations.
Living Large: Overweight Seniors Fueling Growth for Home Instead Senior Care Businesses
Home Instead Senior Care announces that the business is witnessing a dramatic demographic shift as the ranks of obese seniors grow and need personal care services. It might be called the tale of two Boomers: One day you hear that older adults have never been healthier; they're working out and buffing up at YMCAs and fitness clubs throughout America, and living longer as a result. At the same time, half of middle-aged adults between 55 and 64 have high blood pressure and two and five are obese, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.
Senior Housing Leader Ecumen Points Way to Post Partisanship: Long Term Care Financing Reform
Guest post in New York Times and latest whitepaper illustrate reasons why Sens. McCain & Obama are silent on Long Term Care Financing Reform and Outline Opportunity For Candidates
Seniors Living Longer - Being Heallthy and Active Your Entire Life
The focus currently on the various possible ways to extend our life spans may be off-target, in one sense. The real desired goal is to extend the length of time that we maintain a healthful lifespan.
Arizona Assisted Living Homes -- The Alternative to High Priced Senior Care
The cost of skilled nursing care is slowly rising. Currently, the average cost of care in Arizona ranges from $3,500 to $4,500 per month.
Senior Summer School featured on Living Live!
William Levy, Presdient of Senior Summer School, Inc. is interviewed on Living Live! with Florence Henderson.
Home Caregivers Accreditation of America becomes Shield Accreditation - Senior Home Care
Home Caregivers Accreditation of America, LLC (HCAOA), the only non-medical senior home care accreditation in United States has become Shield Accreditation. Dedicated to offering the safest and most professional home care agencies to American seniors, the firm confirms that care companies have the following insurances: general liability insurance, worker's compensation, a dishonesty bond and a business license where required. Shield Accreditation has a more focused approach to seniors and their agencies.
Long-term care Training by Ecumen To Teach Nurses on Psychoactive Medication and Alternatives
Classes designed to ensure directors of nursing and nursing staff separate myth from reality and learn non-pharmacological techniques to treat behaviors
Seniors Living Longer - 5 Steps You Must Do Now
Of all the high priority activities you re now doing in your life, what could be more important than those that promote your ability to increase the quality and length of your life? Here are five major steps that you must start developing now to accomplish this.
Nutrition Specialist Helps Senior Citizens Live Longer
The first of baby boomer generation will become senior citizens this year. Nutrition specialist from www.babyboomercaretaker.com gives health tips to help American baby boomers to live longer.
Strategies on Paying for Nursing Home Care and Medicaid
The decision to place your loved one into a nursing home is an
extremely difficult decision, often causing much guilt for the
caregiver. It is a very emotional decision for most clients we see and
most are under a certain amount of stress, often great, when facing what
they consider to be a drastic course of action.
Arizona Senior Housing: Care Options for Seniors Who Can No Longer Live Alone
The following are a few of the care options available for seniors who can no longer live on their own and require assistance with their Activities of Daily Living (ADL), or require skilled nursing care. Every state is a little different in terms of availability and cost, state regulations, and the specific names used for each care option:Assisted Living Home- A facility consisting of 10 or fewer residents in a private home setting located in residential neighborhoods.
Providing Quality Living: Adult Foster Care Homes
When age has caught up with your loved ones, leaving their bodies weak and their minds distraught, how will you protect them? How will you take care of them? Who will take care of them? For a conservative family, an institutionalized care is probably out of the picture. For a very conservative family, the scenario mentioned in the previous sentence connotes abandonment. I understand their sentiments but I don?t agree with regard the abandoning issue. Each of us has our own limitations. When caring for an aged individual exceeds your capacity, what?ll you do? What will you choose? Nursing homes? Foster homes? Adult housing? Adult day care? The thought of taking care of an elderly is admiring (heroic even.) However, the process itself require...
HomeWell Senior Care is Here to Take Care of Your In-Home Care Needs
HomeWell Senior Care provides live-in and hourly personal care, companionship and homemaker services for seniors so they can remain in the comfort of their own home. HomeWell Senior Care makes life more comfortable with our personalized in-home care service. As the 'Senior Care Specialists', we work hard so seniors can enjoy the quality of life they deserve while remaining in the comfortable and familiar surroundings of their own homes indefinitely.
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Activists Raise Alarm for Senior Safety, Deliver Fire Extinguishers to Atria Willow Park
Tyler, TX (PRWEB) December 10, 2007 -- Are our local seniors safe at Atria Senior Living? That?s what members of the Campaign to Improve Assisted Living and SEIU Healthcare were asking after learning that Atria?s Willow Park facility in Tyler has been cited numerous times for placing residents in situations that make their safe evacuation in an emergency difficult. To raise the alarm over safety problems, members of the Campaign delivered fire extinguishers to the facility on Sunday, Dec. 9. They also requested a meeting with the Executive Director to discuss the facility?s fire evacuation problems.
Atria operates two facilities in Tyler: Atria Willow Park and Atria Copeland. In violation of state regulations, Atria Willow Park has a consistent pattern of retaining seniors who could not quickly evacuate the facility in case of an emergency. Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services (DADS) regulators cited the facility in 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007 for housing residents who would be at risk, including those who:
? Lived on the third floor, but could not walk.
? Required the assistance of 2 staff people to transfer out of a chair.
? Could not make it to a central area on the ground floor within 13 minutes if needed.
? Would not have been able to self-evacuate in an emergency.
According to public records from the DADS, instead of immediately fixing these safety issues, the facility asked for a waiver from state requirements to allow them to continue housing these seniors and collecting rent payments. For several, Atria failed to correct the hazardous conditions and the state rejected the request.
The Campaign has submitted a letter to the Fire Marshal requesting action to protect seniors in Tyler.
In addition to emergency safety failures, Atria?s Tyler facilities have been cited by DADS for medication errors and unsanitary conditions in the kitchen that increased the risk for food-borne illness. Atria Copeland was also fined $600 by state regulators for refusing to produce internal documents on incidents in which residents were harmed.
These problems are systemic to Atria Senor Living nationwide, and the company has been fined more than 1,000 times for serious patient care problems.
Atria Senior Living is one of the largest senior living providers in the country, with more than 140 facilities in 27 states. They are headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, and owned by an investment fund affiliated with Lazard, a large Wall Street firm that manages more than $140 billion globally.
More details at www.improveassistedliving.org.
The Campaign to Improve Assisted Living is an SEIU Healthcare campaign that unites assisted living caregivers with residents, family members, and senior advocates to stand for quality services for seniors and a voice on the job for caregivers. More than one million healthcare workers in hospitals, nursing homes, and in-home care have united in SEIU Healthcare for quality care and quality jobs.
Contact:
Jennifer Kelly, 213-401-3321
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