Monthly Archives: September 2015
Numbers compiled on Alzheimer’s sobering, frightening
The statistics, as statistics so often can be, are startling. According to a report at entitled “Alzheimer’s in America,” the following are the frightening facts: One in nine Americans over 65 has Alzheimer’s disease. (Alzheimer’s Association) When the first wave of baby boomers reached age 85 in 2031, it was projected that more than… Read More »
Law Helps Provide Patients With Proper After-Care
It made little sense: Treating people in the hospital for serious health problems, only to discharge them without making certain some form of after-care was in place. Now in Virginia and several other states, laws are in place that seek to prevent this revolving-door situation from continuing to exist. The Virginia General Assembly earlier… Read More »
Virginia Beach Seniors Can Be Made To Feel Safer For Free
The Virginia Beach Police Department is hoping to expand how safe senior citizens feel in their home by providing them a narrow focus on who is at their front door. Operation Lookout Expanded is a program offered by the VBPD, in partnership with the Virginia Beach Sheriff’s Office that has “the goal of making… Read More »
Unpaid Caregivers Pack Powerful Economic Punch
What would be worth more than the combined 2013 sales of Apple, Hewlett Packard, IBM and Microsoft? Why, the unpaid services by family caregivers in the United States that same year, according to a recent report by the AARP. The medical support and other services provided to loved ones was estimated at $470 billion…. Read More »