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This provocative, intellectually charged treatise serves as a concise introduction to emancipatory gerontology, examining multiple dimensions of persistent and hotly debated topics around aging, the life course, the roles of power, politics and partisanship, culture, economics, and communications. Critical perspectives are presented as definitions for reader understanding, with links to concepts of identity, knowledge construction, social networks, social movements, and inequalities. With today's intensifying concentration of wealth and corporatization, precarity is the fate for growing numbers of the world's population. Intersectionality as an analytic concept offers a new appreciation of how social advantage and disadvantage accumulate, and how constructions of race, ethnicity, class, ability, and gender influence aging. The book's entries offer a bibliographic compendium, crediting the salience of early pioneering theorists and locating these within the cutting-edge of research (social, behavioral, policy, and gene-environment sciences) that currently advances our understandings of human development, trauma, and resilience. Accompanying these foundations are theories of resistance for advancing human rights and the dignity of marginalized populations.
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In The Age of Dignity, Ai-jen Poo says getting older should be viewed not from a place of scarcity and fear but as an opportunity. And, she writes, the U.S. must fix its flawed care system.
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How is society to look after the ever-growing number of people with dementia? A curiously uplifting care home near Amsterdam may have the answers
Never lose hope on your loved ones, even when you feel like they are losing hope on themselves.
CREATIVITY – it's great for the head. I've long since worked my way through dull and down periods of my life with a pen, a paint brush or a rolling pin in my hand. Life is SO unfair? Pummel it out on a piece of dough; not only will you get all your frustrations out, you'll have a delicious loaf with your cuppa afterwards.
From the antique cast-iron stove in the kitchen to the ancient wood-paneled radio in the living room, the decor in The Easton Home comes straight out of the 1930s, '40s and '50s.
Many people don’t. And the two terms often cause confusion among patients and families, as well as caregivers. The terms Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease are
If you have a loved one in a care facility chances are you have heard horror stories of neglect, abuse, and other problems. You probably feel some guilt associated with their care. However, with proper monitoring and regular check ins you can insure the care facility is meeting your loved one’s needs, and those horror stories just stay stories. One potential problem area for care facilities is the mismanagement of incontinence products. With over half the population of nursing homes and care facilities experiencing some degree of incontinence, a significant sum of money is spent each year on these products, and the residents are the ones footing the bill. So how can you make sure your loved one’s incontinence products are not mismanaged and costing more than they should?
Compare assisted living and home care in key areas like cost, services offered, and benefits.
Successful caregivers must be technically able to do the job, have a very high level of people skills and must be able to deal with the emotional nature of the work. Despite the physical and mental challenges of the job, many caregivers find the calling an incredibly rewarding career choice.
Most seniors look forward to aging in place, and are confident in their ability to do so. Such is the top-line feel-good finding from the National Council on Aging‘s (NCOA) survey, The United States of Aging, sponsored by USA Today and United Healthcare. A majority of seniors have a sense of purpose and plans for their future. Three-fourths of older Americans say staying physically fit through exercise and proactively managing their health is important. However, only 36% of seniors say they exercise or engage in physical activity every day. 11% never do. The most common chronic conditions noted by seniors in the survey are high blood pressure, diabetes, arthritis, high cholesterol, asthma, cancer, cardiac failure, COPD, coronary artery disease, and osteoarthritis. Among seniors with chronic conditions, 80% are confident they can manage their conditions so as not to need to see a doctor. And, 84% of older Americans believe they will be able to do the things they need to to maintain their health over the next 5 to 10 years. Furthermore, a whopping 92% of seniors say they can communicate with their doctors regarding health questions and concerns. Underlying seniors’ general upbeat perspective and confidence in self-care is some financial concern, split by gender: more men say they’re financial plans for retirement are sufficient than women, and among seniors still working, 73% of women say they work because they need the money, vs. 65% of men. 46% of senior women say they’re working for the benefits, compared with 33% of senior men. Financial insecurity is also more pronounced among senior women than men when it comes to long-term care. Among seniors who rely on LTC or support services, 41% consider it easy to afford the help, compared with 25% of women. Among seniors who don’t need LTC yet, 38% aren’t confident they’ll be able to afford the services if they need them in the future. NCOA conducted this survey noting that 77 million baby boomers turn 65 at a rate of 10,000 per day. Pressures will mount among this growing aging population challenging housing, transportation, social services, cultural offerings, and health and wellness programs. The poll was conducted in May and June 2012 among 2,250 U.S. adults age 60 and older, in Upstate New York, Milwaukee, Miami, Dallas, and Orange County, CA. Health Populi’s Hot Points: This week’s New Old Age column in the New York Times is titled, More Older Adults with Multiple Problems. The column reports, “These are statistically significant increases, found across all racial and ethnic groups examined — blacks, whites, Hispanics — and most income groups. By 2009-10, 45 percent of the respondents older than 65 had two or more chronic diseases, including stroke, emphysema, asthma and kidney disease. A decade earlier, only 37 percent did. That’s alarming, because people with more than one chronic disease have a harder time managing their health. They’re more likely to be hospitalized. They fill more prescriptions and make more doctors’ visits. They cost themselves and the nation more.” The seniors polled by NCOA are optimistic about their ability to manage their growing burden of chronic disease. One question asked seniors, “How confident are you that you know what your medications do and know what side effects to watch for?” The results of that question are shown in the bar chart. There is a chasm between seniors’ confidence in their perceived understanding of how to take medicines and what clinicians and researchers have found: that is, lack of medication adherence, health il-literacy when it comes to understanding how to take prescription meds, and an alarming number of medication accidents that result in some seniors’ adverse events where people land in emergency departments or morgues. It is heartening to see that seniors feel upbeat about their future and ability to self-manage. Confidence bolsters self-efficacy in health — a very good thing indeed. The fact remains that caregivers, clinicians and communities alike must bolster seniors’ health efficacy and health literacy.
