Does Your Parent Need Nursing Home Care?
Watch CBS News Videos Online One of the great blessings of my life is that my 91-year-old father, whom I dearly love, lives in the apartment building next door. After sixty-six years of marriage,...
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Wireless Incontience Detection Device
An Australian company called Simavita is releasing an incontinence detection device to be used in nursing homes across New South Wales. The SIMsystem uses a strip that detects liquid and a cellular...
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A Helpful Guide For Discharge Planning
Medicare has a handy guide to help patients and their caregivers take control of the discharge planning process. It might be good for hospitals to have a stack of these at the ready and a plan to make...
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Social Network Keeps Seniors Connected
Care Innovations, a joint venture between GE and Intel, has released Connect, a service designed to address social isolation in seniors. Connect software runs on a touch screen device and features...
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Hospitals May Not Be The Best Places To Treat Dementia Patients
Sending dementia patients to the hospital could overwhelm the health care system and not offer them any better care at the end of life, researchers noted. The researchers obtained data on all...
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Telehealth Services May Support Mass Exodus From Nursing Homes
Did you know that every nursing home resident in the U.S. must be asked every quarter whether she wants to go home, regardless of her health or mental status? And if she says yes, there is a local...
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When Elderly Parents Suck The Life Out Of Their Kids
My patient’s son stood vigil outside her hospital room day and night. His eyebrows were frozen at an anxious angle. Although his mom was healing well from her injury, I could see that he was worried...
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A Helpful Guide For Discharge Planning
Medicare has a handy guide to help patients and their caregivers take control of the discharge planning process. It might be good for hospitals to have a stack of these at the ready and a plan to make...
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Hospitals May Not Be The Best Places To Treat Dementia Patients
Sending dementia patients to the hospital could overwhelm the health care system and not offer them any better care at the end of life, researchers noted. The researchers obtained data on all...
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A Helpful Guide For Discharge Planning
Medicare has a handy guide to help patients and their caregivers take control of the discharge planning process. It might be good for hospitals to have a stack of these at the ready and a plan to make...
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Hospitals May Not Be The Best Places To Treat Dementia Patients
Sending dementia patients to the hospital could overwhelm the health care system and not offer them any better care at the end of life, researchers noted. The researchers obtained data on all...
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