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Thanks to an unusually warm winter, allergy season has come early this year. As pollen fills the air weeks ahead of schedule, people afflicted by seasonal allergies are beginning to groan.
Like many millions of Americans, the elderly are not exempt from the stuffy noses and watery eyes that accompany allergies. But, unlike most of those millions, seniors often have complicating factors such as chronic diseases that can make it difficult to deal with their allergies.
“5 Ways to Safely Survive Allergy Season” By:By Anne-Marie Botek
Agingcare.com
April 10th, 2012
Aging seems to make us more vulnerable to depression, but it’s not a foregone conclusion. “Even though so many things happen as we get older — lots of losses and physical changes — most people weather those by adapting, and adapting without becoming depressed,” says Susan Lehmann, director of the Geriatric Psychiatry Day Hospital at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. There’s a difference, she adds, between feeling profoundly lonely or blue and true clinical depression, which is a mood state involving physical and behavioral manifestations that does not shift easily.
“Aging makes people more vulnerable to depression, but the problem can be treated” By: Carolyn Butler
Washington Post
April 9th, 2012
A gerontologist and professor at Cornell University, Karl Pillemer set out to interview elderly men and women. He had seen studies indicating that many senior citizens were happier than people who were decades younger, despite being plagued with chronic disease, various disabilities and sagging skin. He wanted to know why — or, more to the point, how. Over the past six years, as Pillemer and his research team talked to 1,500 people age 70 and older, they gathered thousands of pages of transcripts filled with practical guides to a happy life.
“Life lessons from the elderly in ‘30 Lessons for Living’” By: Maggie Fazeli Fard
Washington Post
April 9th 2012
About one in six workers has elder care responsibilities of some kind.Given longer life expectancies, that share is likely to grow.Workplaces have spent a lot more effort responding to employees’ child care rather than elder care needs, but demographics are pushing the attention meter toward the other end of the age spectrum. Experts in the elder care field are finding that many workers are quietly stressed by juggling attention to their aging relatives with devotion to their jobs.
“Workers Need Help Caring For Elderly” By: Diane Stafford
Lansing State Journal
April 8th, 2012
The first smart home, “iHome”, has newly opened in Hong Kong revealing the future of home care for the elderly. iHome is a high-tech elderly resources centre featuring smart innovations that support independent living. As age takes its toll, we may experience lose of health, physical ability and independence, that leads to inconvenience and discomfort in our daily lives. Smart healthcare technology allows people to age well by keeping them at home, safe and comfortable, despite mental and physical limitations.
“iHome for Smart Elderly” By: Wilfred Lai
Phys.org
April 4th, 2012
In his apartment in Cold Spring, Ed Thelen now has this magic window to a healthier world. As he touched a picture of a camera on his GrandCare touch screen he said, “My favorite things is merely touching this little thing and having all these beautiful people available to me.”
He’s talking about being able to talk to his three kids and six grandkids through a simple touch screen version of Skype. He said it has been beneficial to his emotional health.
“New Technology Keeping Aging Relatives In Their Homes Longer” By:Renee Tessman
March 20th, 2012
KARE 11
Growth of multigenerational households (mostly grandparents, parents, and minor children, but also other extended-family relationships) accelerated during the economic downturn. Some families shared quarters because the unemployment rate (a 30-year high) forced some out-of-work adult children to move back home. Sometimes it was the senior generation that needed a housing solution because they were no longer able to physically or financially go it alone.
“Should Seniors Live Alone or With Family?” By Rachel Beals
US News
March 20, 2012
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A growing number of people with dementia already live alone – more than 800,000 across the country and 72,000 in California, according to a new Alzheimer’s Association report. Half of them have no specific caregiver.
With the aging of the independent-minded baby boom generation, which has been more likely to forgo childbearing and more apt to divorce, those numbers are expected to soar.
“More seniors with some level of dementia live by themselves”
Bellinghamd Herald
March 19th, 2012
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