Category: Caregivers / Homecare

Senate Finance Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) this week asked 11 long-term care insurers to provide information on their business practices in response to “troubling data,” the New York Times reports.

Mayor of London Ken Livingstone published two reports that aim to help increase the supply and choice of accessible homes available to disabled and Deaf Londoners.The London Plan sets a target that at least ten per cent of new homes should be either wheelchair accessible or easily adaptable for wheelchair users - a policy reinforced last week when the Mayor launched his draft Housing Strategy that aims to ensure all Londoners have access to a decent, affordable home.

About 7.4% of U.S. residents ages 75 and older lived in nursing homes in 2006, compared with 8.1% in 2000 and 10.2% in 1990, according to data released on Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau, USA Today reports.

As Wall Street investment firms in recent years have acquired thousands of U.S. nursing homes, they have “often reduced costs, increased profits and quickly resold facilities for significant gains,” but by “many regulatory benchmarks, residents at those nursing homes are worse off, on average, than they were under previous owners,” the New York Times reports.

A “new kind of medical practice is flourishing nationwide that offers to go to where the patients are — whether a home, an office or a hotel — to treat ailments as diverse as a sprained ankle or a bad case of bronchitis,” the New York Times reports.

It’s not just distance that separates the children of Tanzania and the UK. Their lifestyles, aspirations and access to employment, education and healthcare are worlds apart. But if you are a young person looking after a parent or relative with HIV or AIDS, you might find that the differences are far less pronounced.

Following the latest survey of care inspectors and workers, unions have slammed cuts to care inspections and called for urgent ministerial talks. More than three-quarters of members no longer have confidence in the Government’s new care inspection regime that has slashed care home and homecare inspections by almost half (47,341 in 2005/06 to just 26,676 last year).

SilverCensus.com, Inc .. founders Michael and Jessica Adams are proud to announce the launch of their senior health and living search engine http://www.silvercensus.com. A recent fall of an ailing parent in Florida triggers waves of distress amongst the adult children in Michigan.

Blacks in the U.S. are more likely to receive lower-quality nursing home care than whites, according to a study published in the September/October issue of the journal Health Affairs, CQ HealthBeat reports. The study — led by Vincent Mor, chair of the

Are you prepared for the demands of your aging parents, relatives and friends? Join experts from Rush University Medical Center for a free wellness program on planning for the future and an educational health fair for caregivers from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, September 29. This free event sponsored by Rush Generations and the Chicago Department on Aging will be held at the Searle Conference Center, located on the Rush campus, at 1725 W. Harrison St., Chicago.