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Innovation and experimentation are techniques professionals use to find new cures and procedures to alleviate pain. As we age we are prone to injuries and even a break down of our mental capacity. Billions of dollars and hundreds of companies around the world continually try to find ways to meet these needs. Though one technique has started to catch on throughout the country and is being used by assisted living facilities, nursing homes, and care managers for Dementia and Alzheimer’s patients, music therapy.
Geriatric caregivers have observed for …
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Today we have more and more of our senior population using computers and cell phones. My own parents are on Facebook *gasp*and enjoy computer games, checking email and the like. I applaud our parents and grandparents for embracing this technology. I know in my own family this is a primary way for all of us to keep in touch with one another. If it weren’t for phones and computers we would rarely know what was going on since we are spread across the country.
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AARP has renewed its efforts to have Medicare close the gap in prescription coverage known as the “doughnut hole.” Roughly 3.4 million Medicare Part D beneficiaries fall into this gap in coverage each year. The bigger problem is that of these only 15% end up spending enough out of pocket money to hit the upper limit and receive catastrophic coverage.
This gap in coverage totals $3,454 in out-of-pocket spending. By 2016, that gap is expected to exceed $6,000. AARP is fighting this stating it is …
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With the largest generation of Americans entering the latter stages of life coupled with our longer life expectancy, it is crucial that patient care is readily available. The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation has just announced that it has received grants totalling $33.4 million for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging. The grants will be used to build four floors (55,000 square feet) at the facility as well as $3 million toward care giver training program that will be …
