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Dementia has been slowly stealing Ruth Perez's memory and thinking ability for 20 years."She would put food together that didn't belong…
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Quality over quantity. As people get older, their health care goals may shift away from living as long as possible to maintaining a good quality of life.…
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Having reached the average life expectancy for an American male, Dr. John Henning Schumann's father is acutely interested in his buddies' illnesses and treatments. Call it "medical me-tooism."
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In the old days, she would be propped up on a comfy pillow, in fresh cleaned sheets under the corner window where she would in days gone past watch her…
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It’s that time of year again, when many of us return to our lapsed gym memberships or perhaps join a new one as part of a new year’s resolution to get…
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Elder abuse is underestimated, researchers say, and includes physical, emotional and sexual abuse as well as financial exploitation. Doctors, lawyers or banks are often the first to spot problems.
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Twice a month older residents in a hilly, residential section of City Heights in San Diego, California meet to play board games. Each neighbor takes turns…
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"You can evaluate the person as a whole," says Dr. Roberta Miller, who has been a home care physician for more than 20 years. The traditional house call may be the future of medicine.
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Charlie Stewart was looking forward to getting out of the nursing home in time for his 60th birthday. On his planned release day, in late 2012, the Long…
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Antibiotics are prescribed incorrectly to ailing nursing home residents up to 75 percent of the time, the nation’s public health watchdog says.The reasons…