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AMA Urges Government To Amend Aged Care Legislation

... new aged care legislation to protect vulnerable// elderly Australians from abuse in aged care facilities. The proposed Aged Care Amendment (Security and Protection) Bill 2007, which the Government hopes to implement from 1 April, calls for the compulsory reporting of any physical and sexual abuse in aged...

Programs to Prevent Falls Among Elders Not Doing Their Work

...th findings that suggest that programs to help the elderly see more clearly had better be kept on hold// till further study. The researchers led by Professor Robert Cumming of the department of epidemiology and geriatric medicine at Sydney’s Concord Hospital, examined more than 600 people aged over 70, wh...

Post Operative Complications More in Obese Patients

...due to an increasing surgical load and the growing elderly and obese populations," he says. Other studies, he notes, have projected that these factors will to lead to a 25 percent increase in the number of surgeries, a 50 percent increase in surgery-related cost and a 100 percent increase in postoperative co...

Artificial Urethral Sphincters can Help the Elderly

...aukee, USA, tried out the new device on a group of elderly men, in the age group of 75 to 83 years and found it very effective. Those, in whom the device was inserted, through a surgical placement, came to use pads less and less, some doing away with them altogether. Artificial sphincters are known to be o...

Mobility can be improved in elders with exercise

...sult of age-related changes in muscle and neurons, elderly people are often frustrated by poor control during precision tasks, and slowed physical responses contribute to more falls as people grow older,' Knight said. Knight and co-author Gary Kamen, who directs the Exercise Neuroscience Laboratory at the ...

HL7 Announces Industry’s First Electronic Health Record System (EHR-S

...ommunity, serving an estimated 3 million frail and elderly patients annually, is a complex mix of private and public enterprises that are heavily regulated and primarily financed by Medicare and Medicaid programs. This provider community is impacted by rising healthcare costs and other challenges that make i...

Irregular Heartbeat Linked to Genetic Mutation

...trial fibrillation is recognized more often in the elderly who have underlying structural heart disease. But in this study, Mayo Clinic researchers address the gene-based form of atrial fibrillation that affects younger people who do not otherwise harbor risk factors for the disease. The case was compared to...

Uric Acid Levels Tied to Impaired Thinking in the Elderly

Even mildly elevated levels of uric acid in the elderly are associated with slower thinking and memory pro... in Neuropsychology. The researchers found that elderly individuals with uric acid levels at the high end of the normal range had the lowest scores on tests...

Bionic Eye may Restore Sight to the Blind

...The technology is being targeted at both young and elderly patients blinded by either retinitis pigmentosa or macular degeneration. Approximately 25 million people, six million in the United States alone, have lost most or all of their vision to such diseases, a figure Humayun said researchers expect will...

Smog in Warm Weather may Contribute to Stroke Risks in Elderly: Study

...998 to 2004 with the number of stroke deaths among elderly subjects above 65 years, living in Helsinki. A t...ticles. “We suggest that on high pollution days, elderly people should avoid spending unnecessary time in traffic, whether in a vehicle or walking, especiall...

Consumers Warned of Using Cat Food Due to Salmonella Contamination

...ause serious illnesses in small children, frail or elderly people, and people and pets with weakened immune s...nds with hot water and soap. Since young children, elderly people, and people and animals with weakened immune systems are particularly at risk from exposure, ...

Seniors Not Taking Enough Vitamin K

...y at Tufts. Although it may be important for the elderly to increase dietary vitamin K, Booth notes that it...ch is also needed to determine vitamin K status of elderly men, as well as to determine what populations, if any, might benefit from vitamin K supplements." ...

New Guidelines for VHD

..."Another important point concerns the treatment of elderly patients," said Prof Vahanian. "VHD occurs most fr...lderly, yet the Euro Heart Survey showed that many elderly patients were not even considered for surgery by physicians, for reasons that were often unjustified...

Obesity and Older Adults

... may lead to disability and other illnesses in the elderly and could be dramatic in the coming years. It points out the great public health importance of developing appropriate interventions that target fat loss while preserving skeletal muscle to prevent disability and other obesity-related illnesses." So...

‘Smart House’ Developed to Monitor People With Dementa

...e Bath Institute of Medical Engineering could mean elderly people with fading memory can now stay in their own homes for longer, rather than being forced to go into care homes, reported the online edition of Daily Mail. Dementia is a progressive brain dysfunction, which results in a restriction of daily a...

Growth Factors Given With Chemotherapy may Increase Risk of Blood Diseases

... overall risk appeared to be small, even among the elderly patients we studied. Nevertheless, if further research confirms this finding, this risk should be factored into clinical decisions with regard to the use of growth factors." In an editorial, Ivo P. Touw, Ph.D., and Marijke Bontenbal, of the Erasm...

Burn Hospitalizations on the Rise

..., while 18 to 44 year olds made up 38 percent. The elderly accounted for the smallest share of admissions (12 percent). ? The average hospital stay for burn care cost hospitals almost twice that for all other conditions as a whole ($ 17,300 compared with $9,000). Hospital costs for burn victims cost hospi...

Incidence of Neurological Disorders on the Rise

...t estimate, with the study finding 67 out of 1,000 elderly Americans with Alzheimer’s disease. The authors sa...n addition, the study found nearly 10 out of 1,000 elderly Americans have Parkinson’s disease, while nearly four out of every 100,000 Americans have ALS (Lou G...

Sanitation and Science Prevent Norovirus Spread

...in says, explaining the prevalence of outbreaks in elderly facilities. Finally, Margolin says, our ability to stop the spread of disease, whether norovirus or the common cold, is hampered by our attitudes about sickness. “If we were a society that really was interested in preventive health, when you had a ...

Robot Nurses Ready For Hospitals 'In Three Years'

...different injuries and disabilities as well as the elderly and seriously ill patients," says Schlegel. Source-IANS...

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