He found her one morning in the kitchen, where she'd just warmed up a saucepan of cherry Jell-O. Jaroslawa Anna Karpij, 83, stared at her son. "I said, 'Mom, what are you doing?' and the only thing I could really get from her is that she thought it was water," said Myron Karpij, 48.
This page is a collections of links to recent Free Press articles about Home Care.
A new drug called repinotan blocks the respiratory depressant effects of morphine-like opioid drugs-without altering their potent pain-relieving effects, according to a study in the October issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS).If the promising results of animal studies are borne out by future research, then repinotan could become an important part of safe, effective pain control after surgery. The new study was led by Dr. Ulf Guenther of University of Ulm, Germany.
Employing remote monitoring technology to enable the elderly to move from nursing homes and into community-based settings such as supportive housing can keep seniors safe at a substantially reduced cost, according to a new study released today.
Developed by Rosemary Bakker, MS, ASID, an interior designer with a background in gerontology, thiscaringhome.org is an interactive website that allows dementia caregivers to get real tips about the 4 key areas of the home: the bedroom, the kitchen, the living room and the bathroom. Once a participant clicks on an area such as the bathroom, the site highlights many other detailed areas within the bathroom such as the towel rack, bathtub, lighting, etc. There is written narration as well as some audio feedback that describes some key suggestions for safety.
Nursing homes and doctors say patients…have become unintended casualties in the war on drugs because of a new level of enforcement intended to prevent narcotics from getting into the wrong hands. About 1.4 million Americans live in nursing homes.
Deep vein thrombosis commonly affects the leg veins (such as the femoral vein or the popliteal vein) or the deep veins of the pelvis. Occasionally the veins of the arm are affected (if spontaneous, this is known as Paget-Schrötter disease). A DVT can occur without symptoms, but in many cases the affected extremity will be painful, swollen, red, warm and the superficial veins may be engorged. The most serious complication of a DVT is that the clot could dislodge and travel to the lungs, which is called a pulmonary embolism (PE). DVT is a medical emergency. When present in the lower extremity there is 3% chance of a PE killing the patient.[1] A late complication of DVT is the post-thrombotic syndrome, which can manifest itself as edema, pain or discomfort and skin problems.
Some additional info on Deep Vein Thrombosis, or DVT.
Stroke patients who were left partially paralysed found that their condition improved after they received a simple and non-invasive method of brain stimulation, according to research in the September issue of the European Journal of Neurology.
CRADAR is a man-down application that runs on any Android phone.
CRADAR senses when you fall, waits 30-120 seconds (whatever you set it for), and if it doesn't see you move at least 8 feet, sends a text message to one of your contacts telling them you might be hurt. This gives your contact a chance to call you to see if you're ok.
In the text message is a link to Google Maps with your GPS coordinates.
If they don't get an answer, they know exactly where you are, and have the GPS coordinates so other people can find you too.
Actually, Betty knows exactly what the alternatives are. She has visited friends in assisted living and nursing homes, and she says she finds such places depressing.
"We like to be around young people," she says. "There's so many walkers over there, and I feel sorry for them because they're in these long corridors."
So the O'Connors have a plan: If and when Jack can no longer climb the stairs, they'll convert their first-floor family room to a bedroom. But they'll still need help, so Betty has begun recruiting friends and neighbors to help create what's called a "village," an organized network of volunteers dedicated to doing what's needed for seniors to stay in their own homes. For an annual fee, these communities help seniors manage household tasks they can no longer handle and arrange transportation when they can no longer drive.
The Medicaid rolls now stand at 50-million-plus, according to an analysis by USA Today. And another 16 million people are expected to enroll in the federal-state program due to health-care overhaul legislation, which requires states to cover adults with gross incomes of up to 138% of the poverty level.
So what will these new enrollees look like?
According to a new analysis by the Urban Institute, conducted for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the currently uninsured and privately insured adults in that population are, on average, healthier than the adults now enrolled in the program. That suggests that people who enroll in Medicaid under health-care overhaul aren’t likely to be as expensive as current enrollees, the researchers write.
This is an old idea, come round again. Likely true.