Mary Maxwell reminds group of senior care professionals that laughter can be the best medicine:
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Category Archives: Caregiving
AIPatHome.com Advisor Louis Tenenbaum wrote us about a report he helped prepare: “Aging in Place 2.0 Rethinking Solutions to the Homecare Challenge” released earlier this month by MetLife’s Mature Market Institute. According to the report communities, government and the public and private sectors will need to make sweeping changes to accommodate older Americans’ desire to remain… Continue Reading
Almost 20% of U.S. consumers who care for an ill family member are willing to pay out-of-pocket for a home health monitoring service, almost double the number who would purchase the service for themselves, according to Parks Associates.
CommonHealth Action releases preliminary data from national survey on aging in America: 90% expect to use Internet/Social Networking to help take care of themselves. Continue Reading
In an aging population, the elderly are increasingly being taken care of by the elderly. Professional caregivers — almost all of them women — are one of the fastest-growing segments of the American work force, and also one of the grayest. Read the full story: John Leland: New York Times A Graying Population, A Graying… Continue Reading
Comprehensive Report Details the Prevalence, Implications, Costs of Caregiving and Demographics of Caregivers Continue Reading
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