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Senior Home Care - Recognizing a smoker’s face

Senior Home Care Services -We are all familiar with what some doctors call “smoker’s face”: fine lines around the mouth from puckering lips; lines near the eyes from squinting through smoke; a gray-tinged complexion caused by nicotine-slowed blood circulation; thin skin, slackness, and dryness. But did you know that smokers also have higher rates of skin cancers and slower wound-healing rates than non-smokers, and are less able to utilize skin-friendly, antioxidant vitamins such as vitamin C? Moreover, cigarette smoke contains high concentrations of nitrogen dioxide ozone, a compound that damages the DNA your skin cells need to efficiently create new cells.

Assisted Living -With so much going on in one face, a smoker can appear up to 20 years older than her nonsmoking counterparts. For instance, it is common for smokers in their 40s to resemble nonsmokers in their 60s. It’s no wonder that, after sun exposure, dermatologists list smoking as one of the biggest causes of skin damage.

Assisted Living -Several studies have shown that smokers’ skin is an average of 40 percent thinner than nonsmokers’ skin. Researchers say that this is due to restricted blood supply and the deterioration of collagen and elastin in the skin - both caused by cigarette smoke.

Elder Care Providers -Heavy drinking

Elder Care -If you’re at all health conscious, you know you should go easy on the alcohol - a few two-drink nights each week is plenty. That’s because long-term alcohol abuse has been associated with liver disease and breast cancer. Yet the effects of a single night’s binge can appear on your skin as early as the morning after, in the form of dehydration, or water retention under the eyes.

Senior Home Care Services -In addition, heavy drinking saps B vitamins from the body - especially folic acid and thiamine. Skin needs these B vitamins to maintain health, so a deficiency can cause a pale, sallow complexion, dryness, slackness, and unexplained breakouts. Because alcohol dilates the blood vessels nearest your skin, heavy drinking can stress and weaken small blood vessels to the point that some may break, causing visible and unsightly broken veins on your face.

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Home Care For Seniors - Are You New To Contact Lenses?

Senior Home Care Services -Do you wear contacts, but only buy them from your eye doctor? Are you looking for an improved option to buy contact lenses? If you have thought about buying your contacts from a source other than your eye care professional, you are not alone. The amount of people with a contact lens recommendation that buy their contacts online or from warehouses is growing. What do you need to know before you buy contact lenses? You probably know that even if you follow the doctor’s instructions for cleaning your contact lenses, they never feel as good in your eyes as when you just take them of the wrap up for the first time. And if you are a bit casual about caring for your lenses, they can feel even worse.

Assisted Living -Modern technology can create healthy contact lenses with a substance that occurs naturally in human cells. Pro clear Compatibles creates a healthy biocompatible lens material that feels comfortable and moist over several hours. This lens is also very dead set against to dehydration, so it is ideal for people who suffer from dry eyes.

Elder Care Providers -How To Wear Contact Lenses for The First Time?

Senior Health -When trying contact lenses for the initial time you might be laughing thinking about which side is the correct one to wear. If you are among the lucky few who can read the laser imprint you would not require a guide to help you through the process. But if your lens has not got a laser impression over it then the easiest way to locate the wearable side of the contact lens is to hold it on your finger tip. Make certain you wash your hands thoroughly every time before touching your lenses this secures them from pointless harmful deposits. When held over finger tip if the contact lens forms a ‘U’ shape with the edges extended outwards it’s inside out. You must reverse it before wearing. A contact lens if worn from the wrong side would not do any harm but would be uncomfortable. A contact lens wearable side is when it forms a simple ‘U’ shape with it edges not flaring outwards.

Caregiver Support -Caring Instructions for Your Contact lenses:

Assisted Living -1. Rinse your hands with soap and dry those 2. Take your contact lens out and thoroughly rinse each side of it with versatile solution, by putting some solution on it 3. Plug your contact lens case with fresh solution, place your lenses in, screw the lid on and leave your lenses to soak for at least 6 hours, or overnight. It is important to use fresh solution every time you place your lenses in it; recycling is not a good idea, in this case. 4. When you are ready to wear your contacts, rinse each side again and pop them into your eyes

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Due to the aging of America, a dramatic increase in employment opportunities in the elder care, geriatric and senior housing industry is rising.

Home Care For Seniors - (PRWEB) October 9, 2003 –There are 35 million Americans currently over the age of 65, and that number is expected to increase to 40 million elderly citizens by the year 2010. This expanding elder population is generating a dramatic increase in employment opportunities in the elder care industry, and a growing demand for qualified, experienced professionals.

Caregiver Support -To meet this growing demand, ElderJobs.com a new nationwide employment website, has been developed. The site is exclusively for the elder care, geriatric, and senior housing industry, as well as those seeking employment in the field of aging.

Senior Home Care Services -Five years ago Cheryl Culbertson founded Elder Options of Texas, the leading elder care and senior housing website for the state of Texas. Recognizing the need for an employment site that concentrated specifically on job seekers and employers alike within the aging industry, Culbertson created ElderJobs.com.

Elder Care -Employers, human resource managers, and healthcare recruiters are excited about ElderJobs.com because the site focuses precisely on the type of employees they need” said Culbertson. The site accepts resumes only from individuals seeking employment in the field of aging resulting in quality resumes vs. quantity of resumes.”

Caregiver Support -ElderJobs.com is also attracting the attention of hundreds of college graduates with degrees in fields such as Nursing Home Administration, Gerontology and Social Work, who frequent the site searching for employment opportunities, as well as many others seeking jobs in the elder care industry.

Senior Health -Job seekers benefit from the free resume posting services, immediate access to a variety of educational sites offering job-seeking tips & tools, career news & resources, as well as a variety of resourceful links to national and statewide organizations.

Caregiver Support -ElderJobs.com is connecting qualified eldercare job seekers with eldercare employers, filling both of their employment needs.
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Author: Cheryl Culbertson, Founder

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Although our focus is on elder care options it is important to remember that life-changing conditions that threaten independent living are not limited to the elderly. People of any age can experience challenging conditions due to illness or injury that interfere with normal activities of daily living. When a decline in function renders a person unable to live independently, there are many care options to consider in regards to the kind of care they’ll receive and who will provide it.
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It is my desire that the following summary of care options will be helpful to those needing care.
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Hospitals
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Hospitals usually keep patients with acute medical conditions until the acute condition is resolved. However, this is not always long enough to allow the patient to become independent and safe enough to return home.
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Hospitals serve an important function by saving the lives of those with life-threatening conditions, but when patients are medically stable they must move to another type of facility.
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Because the present healthcare environment imposes tight funding restrictions on hospitals, it forces them to reduce the duration of a patient’s stay. The allotted time is rarely sufficient to return patients to their prior level of function. At this point, patients and/or their family members must decide what to do next.
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The care option that’s right for your circumstances depends on availability, accessibility, price, expectations and the patient’s age, condition and recovery potential.
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Swing Bed Programs
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Progressive hospitals offer Swing Bed Programs. To move from acute care to Swing Bed is no more than a paperwork move. However, patients on the Swing Bed Program can continue to qualify for Medicare benefits as long as they make progress in physical therapy, and as long as they demonstrate good rehab potential.
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Rehabilitation is the key in these facilities. Patients are involved in therapeutic exercises, functional training, balance training, and gait training. The Swing Bed Program functions as a skilled nursing facility.
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Regional Rehabilitation Centers
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Qualifying patients may transfer from an acute hospital to a regional rehabilitation center. These patients receive intensive rehab that usually consists of a combination of physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy.
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Stays are typically one to three weeks, after which the patient must either transition to their home or to another care facility.
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Nursing Homes
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Nursing homes, referred to as care homes, convalescent homes, rest homes, and elder care centers, vary in size and type. Skilled nursing homes can, in some cases, carry on the rehabilitation the hospital began. If the patient is able to consistently show physical progress and good rehab potential, Medicare may reimburse for a certain number of days.
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Physical therapy and occupational therapy can include therapeutic exercises and training in activities of daily living (bathing, dressing, grooming, etc). When patients reach a plateau in their progress, they are either discharged or sent to a non-skilled nursing facility. Medicare does not provide financial assistance for non-skilled facilities.
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The best nursing homes provide restorative services. A restorative aide performs simple exercises and assisted ambulation with patients that do not qualify for the skilled services of a licensed physical therapist. Nursing homes are a good choice for individuals who require lots of care or who lack the rehab potential to progress to a rehabilitation facility.
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Assisted Living Facilities (ALFs)
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ALFs provide care for individuals who have a much higher level of independence than do those who require a nursing home. They usually have a private apartment-like setting where the residents can be reasonably independent. Meals and varying levels of care are provided.
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Assisted living facilities are designed for those who have a good degree of independence, yet are not able to live independently in their own homes. ALF’s typically do not offer physical therapy, exercises programs or restorative therapy services, and Medicare offers no assistance.
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Adult Foster Homes
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These facilities offer a home-like environment and the best possible staff-to-resident ratio. The State allows a maximum or five residents in Oregon Adult Foster Homes. Other states vary. Residents are given home-cooked meals and activities that are relevant to their interests.
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In Oregon, adult foster homes are licensed as level 1, level 2 or level 3, based on the experience and capabilities of the care providers. Level 1 foster homes provide for functional residents who require only minimal assistance in their activities of daily living. Level three residents require care in several activities of daily living and may even be bed bound.
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Although adult foster homes specialize in elder care and retirement age residents, people of any age can live in them.
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Family Caregiving
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Sometimes, families want or need to care for their loved ones in their own home. This seemingly overwhelming task can be handled in two ways: One way is by hiring personal in-home caregivers to provide the needed care. Someone needs to coordinate the caregivers to ensure consistency. When 24-hour care is needed the expense can far exceed any of the above options.
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A second option is to personally care for your loved one yourself. This could necessitate leaving your job. This ambitious task can be done if you take care of yourself to prevent burnout and to avoid falling ill. If you take this route you might consider having a personal caregiver come in once or twice a week to relieve you.
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Transitional Care
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Often, patients are not ready to return home after leaving the hospital. Various life-changing conditions, such as a hip fracture, knee or hip replacement or stroke can make it impossible to safely transition home. Even conditions like pneumonia or bowel obstructions can start the deconditioning process that makes a person less stable on their feet and puts them at risk for falling.
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It’s imperative to maximize a patient’s level of function in order to ensure their safe transition home. Transitional care units have emerged to fill this gap. Transitional care units provide various degrees of rehabilitation that can include physical therapy and occupational therapy.

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Myths associated with selecting quality nursing home care suggest quick and easy ways to identify quality care. In fact, relying on these myths can lead to disastrous results. I have identified a few of the most common myths in hopes of helping you avoid some of the problems commonly found in many nursing homes.
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1. The Smell Test
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You’ve heard it repeatedly: “The best way to determine the quality of care a nursing home provides is to be alert to bad odors when you visit the home.”
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It seldom, if ever, works. Why? Nursing home administrators have heard the very same advice. As a result, they are particularly sensitive to unpleasant odors in any area that might receive visitors. Almost all will do their best to remove offensive odors as quickly as possible, even when it means avoiding their primary responsibility to their residents.
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2. The Personal Recommendation
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Recently, I heard a guest on a radio talk show state that the very best way to find great nursing home care is to get recommendations from a friend. Like other myths, there is a grain of truth here, but you must check whether your friend has had extensive interactions with the nursing home recommended. Often that is not the case.
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Last weekend I dealt with an emergency call from Jim, a friend who had placed his mother in a nursing home recommended by a friend. Although she was recuperating from a stroke, no nurse or aide checked on her condition for more than 14 hours. Jim discovered her in the morning with many cuts and bruises, her bedsheets soaked in blood. He was astonished that anyone would recommend such a poor care facility.
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“My friend said her grandmother was in this particular nursing home,” he reported. “So, I thought it would be good care.”
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“How often does your friend visit her grandmother?” I asked him.
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“I didn’t think to ask,” he responded.
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“And did you check the latest survey for that nursing home?”
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“No,” he answered. “I thought a personal recommendation was all I needed.”
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Jim’s mother is now back in an area hospital. No one knows yet how much damage this experience caused to her recovery.
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3. You Get What You Pay For
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Nowhere is this statement less applicable than in nursing home care. In fact, I’d replace it with another shibboleth — “Buyer Beware.” Our own research, encompassing more than 6000 nursing homes and more than 100 assisted living facilities shows no relationship between cost and quality of care. You may find quality care in an expensive facility, or you may not! Similarly, the fact that a facility is low-cost does not indicate whether you’ll get poor, average, or quality care. You have to do your homework. Relying on price as the sole indicator of quality care can lead to disastrous results.
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4. Adequate Staffing Equals Quality Care
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A recent report by the Senate’s Special Committee on Aging indicated that quality care for a single nursing home resident requires more than three hours each day of nursing and nursing aide time. However, statistical analysis of the latest federal database on nursing home deficiencies indicates no relationship between quality of care and staffing levels. This finding is consistent with a number of university studies.
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What should you look for, then, in nursing home staffing levels?
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There is a level below which nursing homes are so understaffed that quality care can not be provided. I’d suggest that you not consider any home providing a level less than two hours per day per resident. For levels greater than this, I’d focus not on the number of hours available for care but on the motivation of staff available to provide care. Those who are motivated to care for the elderly will do so. Those who are motivated only by a paycheck will probably provide shoddy care regardless of their numbers.
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5. A Well-Known Chain Will Provide the Best Care
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This is another myth that can lead to tragedy. Sometimes, well- known companies do provide top-quality care. In other instances, however, a quick review of newspapers and magazines will show you other companies with long records of legal troubles stemming from accusations of neglect and abuse. One such company has been sued simultaneously by several states’ attorneys general.
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How will you know? The company is not likely to tell you, so you won’t know unless you take the time to look into the company’s historical performance.
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There you have it — 5 myths exploded!
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What does work? There is no substitute for your own personal investigation. With a little research, with personal visits to nursing homes before you sign anything, you can avoid many of the difficulties that have come to those who relied on such myths.

About the author:

copyright 2002, Phyllis Staff. Phyllis Staff, Ph.D. - Phyllis Staff is an experimental psychologist and the CEO of The Best Is Yet.Net, and the author of How to Find Great Senior Housing: A Roadmap for Elders and Those Who Love Them (2002).
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This article was posted on December 27, 2002

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Non-medical home health care provider options outweigh assisted living, senior communities for elders seeking care.

Senior Health - Ashland, MA (PRWEB) February 20, 2006 — Non-medical home care tops the list of preferred options for those seeking assisted living and senior communities for seniors primarily between the ages of 75 and 84. Other choices for senior care included emergency response services, adult day care centers, group health care facilities and nursing homes.

Elder Care -The numbers are consistent with growing trends for elderly to be cared for in the home rather than in nursing homes and assisted living centers. Using home care providers for non-medical care can support families in their care efforts and support seniors in continuing to live independently. Utilizing home health care and personal care providers can be more cost effective as well. Elder home care services often include meal preparation, personal care services such as grooming and dressing, household services and transportation, according to the ElderCarelink survey.

Senior Health - As we continue to match quality providers from our network to our consumers, it is likely we will see elder home care providers expanding services and developing more targeted specialties to meet this growing need in elder care. The survey was established by ElderCarelink to provide crucial information about a growing demographic in an effort to best serve families seeking elder care and services. The trend toward caring for our seniors in the home is evident as concerns about quality of life and reluctance to turn to dependent living situations such as nursing homes or assisted living grow, said Robert F. Brooks, Chief Executive Officer of ElderCarelink. As we continue to match quality providers from our network to our consumers, it is likely we will see elder home care providers expanding services and developing more targeted specialties to meet this growing need in elder care.

Senior Home Care Services -About ElderCarelink
ElderCarelink is a leading provider of qualified lead generation services within the eldercare industry. Through proprietary profiling technology and web-based marketing techniques, ElderCarelink provides free, personal internet-based referrals to consumers, matching specialists in eldercare to elders and their families. ElderCarelink assists families in finding a multitude of senior services, including assisted living, nursing homes, adult day care, private duty nursing, care management and homecare in all 50 states, which meet the specific needs of each familys individual situation. More about finding eldercare assistance or joining our network of providers can be found at www.eldercarelink.com.

Author: Robert Brooks

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The Elder Care and Youth Education Foundation of Detroit announces its reading awards for children to highlight reading and reward children interested in learning.

Senior Home Care - (PRWEB) August 11, 2005 — The Elder Care and Youth Education Foundation (ECAYE) of Greater Metropolitan Detroit announced today the availability of Childrens Reading Awards.

Senior Health -These awards are small monetary incentives for children to read during non-school hours. The award is a sum between 20-50 dollars that is awarded to a child between 3rd grade and 12th grade for reading 20 books deemed to be difficult by ECAYE board standards. ECAYE is enlisting help from neighborhood churches, and schools in this effort. If you are interested in entering your child in this competition, please visit us at www.ecaye.org. The application can be filed on-line and awards will be mailed to winners. ECAYEs goal is to give 20-40 awards this summer and keep the program running indefinitely.

Senior Home Care -ECAYE also plans to roll out a new scholarship program in September as well as a utilities award for elders who can’t pay their utilities bills.

Author: Christopher Dixon

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Families now have an easier way of locating senior services and elder care throughout Texas by way of the Internet.

Caregiver Support - Driftwood, TX (PRWEB) June 20, 2008 — Elder Options of Texas, a free senior site and directory, is celebrating eight years of online services.

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Senior Health - In our mobile society, a large problem facing many families today is not knowing what elder care providers are available in the Texas city or town their loved one lives, when they themselves, live a distance away In January of 2000, Cheryl Culbertson, owner and founder of Elder Options of Texas, had a dream of creating a web site that would make it easier for families to access senior housing and care options, caregiver resources, home health providers and more throughout the state of Texas.

Home Care For Seniors -”In our mobile society, a large problem facing many families today is not knowing what elder care providers are available in the Texas city or town their loved one lives, when they themselves, live a distance away,” said Cheryl Culbertson, owner and founder of Elder Options of Texas.

Assisted Living -Today, hundreds of Texas companies that provide a variety of senior products and services to families in need are featured on Elder Options of Texas. Families have the opportunity to learn more about each company by reading their Company Profile section.

Senior Home Care Services -Like the rest of the nation, Texas will continue to grow older. The older adult population will grow more rapidly as Texas Boomers reach age 60 and older.

Elder Care -In 2000, the aged population comprised 13 percent of the Texas population, but by 2040, older adults will comprise almost one quarter (23%) of the total Texas population. In 2000, the 85-plus population group totals over 237,000; by 2040, they are projected to reach over 831,000, a 249.4 percent increase. SOURCE: Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services

Elder Care Providers -In addition to featuring many companies who provide a variety of senior and elder care services, Elder Options of Texas has an internet Library full of informative articles to assist with understanding the differences in the many options available.

Assisted Living -The “Ask a Question” section, moderated by top professionals in their fields, is a community service available free of charge. There is also a database for accessing not-for-profit and state agencies that provide services to low and fixed income elderly.

Assisted Living -There are several additional sections within the web site that assist families become familiar with available housing and care options. Elder Options of Texas philosophy is the more knowledge one has the better decisions they will make.

Elder Care Providers -Taking advantage of the the Internet, regardless where a family members live, opens the door to a wealth of information right at their finger tips.

Senior Home Care Services -Elder Options of Texas is a free online directory for locating a variety of senior services and elder care resources, including the services listed above, available throughout the state of Texas.

Senior Health -Contact Information:
Cheryl Culbertson
Tel: (512) 415-0567
info@elderoptionsoftexas.com

Author: CHERYL CULBERTSON

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Preventing Elder Abuse Is a Question of Ethics and Morality

Elder Care Providers - Pasadena, CA (PRWEB) March 20, 2007 — People are living longer and longer lives; many requiring ongoing, long-term care. Current events show that more elder abuse cases are being reported than in years past, and many experts believe that the actual number of cases will increase in the years ahead as older Americans constitute a larger proportion of the U.S. population than ever before. One of the pressing social issues of our time is elder abuse, which can include physical harm, sexual abuse, emotional or psychological abuse, financial or material exploitation, and intentional or unintentional neglect.

Assisted Living -Many baby boomers, currently the age group ranging from 40 to 60 years old, can expect to live well into their 80s and 90s. Elder care often falls to the grown children of seniors, who now are baby boomers and busy with their own children and careers. Getting caught in this care-giving sandwich can be an emotional as well as a financial burden.

Elder Care - As the elderly population continues to grow, and as health care and senior living arrangements increase in costs, more people will assume responsibility for those who raised them Complicating the problem is the fact that, in the next few years the first baby boomers will reach retirement age. “As the elderly population continues to grow, and as health care and senior living arrangements increase in costs, more people will assume responsibility for those who raised them,” predicts Carmel Bitondo Dyer, associate professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and codirector of the Texas Elder Abuse and Mistreatment Institute. “With few alternatives and no training in how to handle their new-found care giving responsibilities, many will inflict pain.” (See the current article on elder abuse, Whos at Risk?).

Elder Care Providers -No one knows exactly how many elderly people are mistreated, but the National Research Councils Panel to Review Prevalence and Risk of Elder Abuse and Neglect estimated in a 2003 report that between one and two million Americans, aged 65 or older, have been injured, exploited, neglected or otherwise mistreated by someone on whom they depend for care or protection. The figures for the United States are thought to reflect those in the rest of the world.

Senior Home Care Services -The National Center on Elder Abuse, funded by the U.S. Administration on Aging, estimates that only one in six domestic elder abuse cases is reported to authorities. For instance, in 2003, 565,747 cases were reported to state Adult Protective Services agencies in the United States, whereas they believe the actual number of elder abuse victims for that year may have been closer to two million.

Caregiver Support -In an article featured on Vision Magazine, one such case of elder abuse involves a social workers report about a man who started exhibiting signs of dementia. His 32 year old daughter suggested he move in with her and coerced her father into granting her power-of-attorney. She quickly took advantage of the situation, withdrawing $500 each day out of his checking account, soon bringing the account balance to zero. She cashed her fathers $2,000-a-month pension check using some of it to pay for her fathers food, doctor bills and medications, but spending the majority on her own living expenses.

Home Care For Seniors -As her fathers dementia worsened, he also lost bladder and bowel control, and it became harder for her to care for her father. As a result her tolerance level for him and his condition decreased. But she knew that if he went into a nursing home or an assisted-living facility where he would get 24-hour professional care, she would lose her fathers pension checks. Her solution: she tied her father onto the toilet and kept him there for several days at a time until he was so dehydrated and sick that he was dying.

Senior Home Care Services -What can we do as a society to curb the current social problem of elder abuse? According to Elizabeth Podnieks, vice president of the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse, “The first step is education. We need to get to the point where everybody knows what elder abuse is and is aware that it exists. The more we talk about it, the more real it becomes and the more people are shocked by it, and then the more committed we are going to be as a society to do something about it.”

Elder Care -Eliminating elder abuse will take a commitment on the part of people everywhere to take responsibility for their thoughts and actions. In order to eliminate this growing social issue we need to be each others keeper.

Author: Edwin Stepp

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The Seniors Approved Certification Has Recently Been Awarded to Qualified Elder Care Businesses

Home Care For Seniors - Cleveland, OH (PRWEB) January 4, 2005 — Quality Care Options, LLC announces newly added Certified Senior Approved Services to their exclusive network of resources. Each of the businesses serving the senior citizen and his or her adult child or caregiver received the Certification based on actual feedback derived from the elder care industry’s first consumer-driven survey process.

Senior Health -Quality Care Options (www.qualityeldercare.com) and its sister company Seniors Approve Free Web Community (www.seniorsapprove.com) advocates for the right of all seniors to receive excellent care and to most importantly, remain safe in the receiving of that care. QCO links seniors (and their family members) to elder care businesses that hold a 90% or higher ’senior’ approval rating.

Home Care For Seniors -The following businesses are now Certified as a Senior Approved Service:
Comfort Keepers, Home Care Service, South Cleveland
Comfort Keepers, Home Care Service, Elyria
Advanced Laser Solutions, Garfield Hts
Legacy Village, Assisted Living, Twinsburg
Northcoast Conflict Solutions, Elder Mediation, Independence
Occasional Help For Seniors, Handyman & Cleaning, Cleveland
Helping Hands Home Care, Home Care Service, Stow
Infinity Home Care, Home Care Service, Lakewood
Docuprep, Affordable Legal Documentation, PA
M&M Partnership, Seniors Sharing a Home, Shaker Hts
Sunrise of Rocky River, Assisted Living and Alzheimer’s Care, Rocky River
Alterra Wynwood, Assisted Living, Westlake
Seniors Home Advantage, Home Care Service, Solon
Brighton Gardens, Assisted Living and Alzheimer’s Care, Westlake
Life Quest, Home Medical Supplies & Equipment, Euclid
S.A.R.A.H. Adult Day Services, Strongsville
Wales Consulting, Do-It-Now (an organizational book for families), Hartville
Birch Financial, Bill-Paying Service, Chagrin Falls
Raymond James Financial, Elder Financial Planning, Long-Term Care Health Insurance, Willoughby

Home Care For Seniors -QCO is developing the first ‘One-Call-Solution’ for seniors and their family caregivers connecting the senior to a variety of services, both medical and non-medical. There is no charge to the senior for this all-encompassing service. You are welcome to call QCO toll free at 877-620-6448 for personal one-on-one service, or if you prefer, you may self-select a service by visiting www.seniorsapprove.com/services.html.

Elder Care Providers -Finally. A simple no-nonsense method is available to assist the senior and the family caregiver as they sift through the multiple choices of elder care businesses. The guessing is over! With complete confidence, choose a Certified Senior Approved service!

Senior Home Care Services -Businesses that serve the elder population are welcome to inquire about the certification process by visiting www.qualityeldercare.com/providers or by phoning toll free at 877-620-6448. QCO serves seniors nationwide and so your medical and non-medical service is of interest, regardless of the location of your business.

Author: Barbara Mascio