Senior Care News

An Associated Press article posted today on MSNBC cited an interesting development on the Medicare website—Medicare is “outing” the 54 worst nursing homes in the country, an unprecedented move...Read entire article »

Many of today’s middle-aged Americans are caring for aging parents along with holding down fulltime jobs. How this impacts both employees and employers is discussed in a recent Business...Read entire article »

Do the meals taste like hospital food? Does the staff-to-patient ratio allow for enough individualized attention? Is your loved one’s roommate a known sex offender? Most likely, that last...Read entire article »

Recent events have many people who take statin drugs wondering if they or even their doctors are being manipulated by large drug companies and health insurance providers. One of the...Read entire article »

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) offers retirement benefits to state, public and classified school employees and their families. Employees and their employers (state agencies funded by tax...Read entire article »

You know the case. Forty-one years after the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi, former preacher and Klan Kleagle Edgar Ray Killen was convicted of manslaughter...Read entire article »

Virginia Cole died at Woodstock Residence Nursing Home in Illinois on Sept. 10, 2006. She was 78 years old. Although afflicted with Alzheimer’s, Cole was in good overall health...Read entire article »

Could progressive adoption laws have positive outcomes for today’s gay couples when they look for long-term care? Gay adoptions are on the rise, and adult children are usually the first...Read entire article »

Do senior care and sex make for strange bedfellows? Well, perhaps not. A few months ago, I attended an Alzheimer’s Association conference where one of the seminars dealt with...Read entire article »

In light of MS Awareness Week, which runs from March 5 to March 11, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society is urging Americans to join the movement to help end—once...Read entire article »

As a rule of thumb, I don’t discuss religion and politics unless I’m in the company of close friends or family—it’s just too easy to cross the line from...Read entire article »

In this installment of medical research news, I’ve included some tidbits that will give you a few things to think about—and one to sleep on. An Ounce of Detection...Read entire article »

Most people are well aware of the gaps within the original Medicare plan. For one, there’s no “stop loss” feature. Other health insurance policies will pay 100 percent toward...Read entire article »

Assuming you made it through the holidays without contracting the flu from Aunt Bea or Cousin Alex, I’m here to remind you that you’re not quite out of the...Read entire article »

Recently, I was surprised to learn that a friend of mine was raised by her grandmother. But according to the latest statistics, I shouldn’t have been. Throughout history, grandparents...Read entire article »

Welcome to the December installment of new medical research. This month I have highlighted three important studies relating to Alzheimer’s, memory loss and a new way to help people...Read entire article »

Recently, a colleague bravely addressed the sometimes-taboo issue of senior driving. She also posed the difficult question: when is enough enough? Lots of information was provided on how to...Read entire article »

Life—for most of us—is a juggling act where work, family, home and play are a few of the many things we try to balance. But what if you could...Read entire article »

As this year is the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Alzheimer’s—and November is National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month, I decided to highlight just a few of the small...Read entire article »

A couple of years ago I found myself peddling books at a local travel bookstore. Among the perks—including all of the globes and atlases one bookshelf and many accommodating...Read entire article »

We all have that relative who in times of crisis has a checklist of what should be done. And although we might mock them, many are happy to know what...Read entire article »

It’s always pleasing to highlight good news! Recently, the New Jersey legislature passed a law that will offer seniors on Medicaid more long-term care options. By 2008, senior citizens living...Read entire article »

Let’s face it, readers—the Web isn’t just for kids and to think so would be, well, antiquated. My own mother has realized there’s nothing quite as satisfying as coming...Read entire article »

The other day I realized that summer was over when I noticed my local drugstore’s windows piled high with holiday merchandise. Yes, it’s that time again. The weather is changing...Read entire article »

Here at Gilbert Guide, we are constantly urging family caregivers to seek respite so that when they are “on-duty” they can provide the best care to their loved one. One...Read entire article »

According to National Adult Day Services Association (NADSA), there are over 3,500 adult day care centers currently operating in the United States—and that number is rapidly climbing with the...Read entire article »

“Mom, Dad—maybe it’s time you stopped driving.” That’s probably one phrase no adult child ever wants to utter. We live in a driving culture—from the first Tin Lizzie to...Read entire article »

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, at least 140 residents of long-term care facilities died—either in nursing homes or during botched evacuations. About 60 percent of nursing homes failed...Read entire article »

According to this August 10, 2006 article in the Detroit Free Press, six individuals in Michigan were charged with falsifying their criminal records in employment applications to four separate...Read entire article »

According to the National Institute on Aging, an estimated 4.5 million Americans suffer from Alzheimer’s, and approximately 10 percent of adults 65 years and older are diagnosed with the...Read entire article »

As Consumer Reports’ recent findings on skilled nursing facilities point out, the worst of the worst nursing homes are still in operation. According to the data, many of the...Read entire article »