Senior Help Desk Community Timeline
Help with Alzheimer's Caregiving!
By: Senior Help DeskSenior Help Desk healthcare blog credited to The National Institute on Aging, part of NIH www.nia.nih.gov
Some caregivers need help when the person is in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Other caregivers look for help when the person is in the later stages of Alzheimer’s. It's okay to seek help whenever you need it.
Senior Help Desk healthcare blog credited to The National Institute on Aging, part of NIH www.nia.nih.gov
Coming Full Circle, Doulas Cradle The Dying
By: Senior Help DeskArticle by Bruce Horovitz and Kaiser Health News
Cover photo: Bob and Ellen Gutenstein celebrate Ellen's birthday three months before her death. (Courtesy of the Gutenstein family)
As Ellen Gutenstein lay in her bed at home, dying from lung cancer that had metastasized in her brain, a heart-wrenching Mother’s Day card arrived from her granddaughter. Neither Ellen’s daughter — nor her husband — felt they could read it to her without breaking down.
Article by Bruce Horovitz and Kaiser Health News
Cover photo: Bob and Ellen Gutenstein celebrate Ellen's birthday three months before her death. (Courtesy of the Gutenstein family)
How To Fight For Yourself At The Hospital — And Avoid Readmission
By: Senior Help DeskSeniorhelpdesk.com Healthcare Blog by Judith Graham and Kaiser Health News http://khn.org
Everything initially went well with Barbara Charnes’ surgery to fix a troublesome ankle. But after leaving the hospital, the 83-year-old soon found herself in a bad way.
Dazed by a bad response to anesthesia, the Denver resident stopped eating and drinking. Within days, she was dangerously weak, almost entirely immobile and alarmingly apathetic.
Seniorhelpdesk.com Healthcare Blog by Judith Graham and Kaiser Health News http://khn.org
For Seniors, Teeth Need Care — But Insurance Coverage Is Rare
By: Senior Help DeskArticle by Michelle Andrews and Kaiser Health News
Cover photo: Ada Anderson helps her mother, Violeta Anderson, brush her teeth before her dentist appointment in November 2015. (Photo by Heidi de Marco/KHN).
Aging can take a toll on teeth, and for many seniors paying for dental services is a serious concern because they can’t rely on their Medicare coverage.
Article by Michelle Andrews and Kaiser Health News
Day-Tripping To The Dispensary: Seniors In Pain Hop Aboard The Canna-Bus
By: Senior Help DeskBy Stephanie O'Neill and Kaiser Health News
Cover photo: Megan Baker (left) of Papa & Barkley Co., a cannabis company based in Eureka, Calif., shows Shirley Avedon different products intended to help with pain relief. (Stephanie O’Neill for KHN)
This story also ran on NPR. This story can be republished for free. http://khn.org/syndication/ 
By Stephanie O'Neill and Kaiser Health News
You Are Invited - Free 4 Part Series
By: Linda Ziac
THE CAREGIVER CIRCLE - GREENWICH
Founded by the Greenwich Commission on Aging, River House, Junior League of Greenwich and the American Red Cross, the Caregiver Circle is a free four part series designed for non-professional caregivers in the community.
Four sessions are held in the Fall and the Spring of each year at the Greenwich Main Library from 6 – 7:30 p.m. (2nd floor Meeting Room).
For Seniors, Medicare's Obesity-Counseling Benefit Goes Largely Unused
By: Senior Help DeskSeniorhelpdesk.com Healthcare Blog By Phil Galewitz and Kaiser Health News http://khn.org
The Obama administration offered hope to millions of overweight seniors when it announced Medicare would offer free weight-loss counseling.
Officials estimated that about 30 percent of seniors are obese and therefore eligible for counseling services, which studies have shown improve the odds of significant weight loss.
By Law, Hospitals Now Must Tell Medicare Patients When Care Is ‘Observation’ Only
By: Senior Help DeskSeniorhelpdesk.com Healthcare Blog By Susan Jaffe and Kaiser Health News http://khn.org Cover
Under a new federal law, hospitals across the country must now alert Medicare patients when they are getting observation care and why they were not admitted — even if they stay in the hospital a few nights. For years, seniors often found out only when they got surprise bills for the services Medicare doesn’t cover for observation patients, including some drugs and expensive nursing home care.
Seniorhelpdesk.com Healthcare Blog By Susan Jaffe and Kaiser Health News http://khn.org Cover
Staying Out Of The Closet In Old Age
By: Senior Help DeskSeniorhelpdesk.com Healthcare Blog by Anna Gorman and Kaiser Health News http://khn.org
Cover photo:Partners Edwin Fisher, 86, and Patrick Mizelle, 64, moved to Rose Villa in Portland, Oregon, from Georgia about three years ago. Fisher and Mizelle worried residents of senior living communities in Georgia wouldn’t accept their gay lifestyle. (Anna Gorman/KHN)
Patrick Mizelle and Edwin Fisher, who have been together for 37 years, were planning to grow old in their home state of Georgia.
Seniorhelpdesk.com Healthcare Blog by Anna Gorman and Kaiser Health News http://khn.org
Like Hunger Or Thirst, Loneliness In Seniors Can Be Eased
By: Senior Help DeskSeniorhelpdesk.com Healthcare Blog by Judith Graham and Kaiser Health News http://khn.org
It’s widely believed that older age is darkened by persistent loneliness. But a considerable body of research confirms this isn’t the case.
In fact, loneliness is the exception rather than the rule in later life. And when it occurs, it can be alleviated: It’s a mutable psychological state.
End-of-Life Care for People with Dementia
By: Senior Help DeskSenior Help Desk healthcare Blog By National Institutes of Health . Nation Institute of Aging
As they reach the end of life, people suffering from dementia can present special challenges for caregivers. People can live with diseases such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s dementia for years, so it can be hard to think of these as terminal diseases. But, they do cause death
Senior Help Desk healthcare Blog By National Institutes of Health . Nation Institute of Aging
Volunteers Help Ombudsmen Give Nursing Home Residents ‘A Voice’ In Their Care
By: Senior Help DeskSeniorhelpdesk.com blog by Susan Jaffe and Kaiser Health News
Since retiring four years ago, Barbara Corprew has visited Paris, traveled to a North Carolina film festival and taken Pilates classes, focusing on — as she puts it — just “doing things for me.” Now the former Justice Department lawyer, who worked on white-collar crime cases, is devoting time to something completely different: She visits nursing homes every week.
New Medicare Advantage Tool To Lower Drug Prices Puts Crimp In Patients’ Choices
By: Senior Help DeskSeniorhelpdesk.com blog by Susan Jaffe and Kaiser Health News
This story also ran on NPR. This story can be republished for free.Details link: http://khn.org/syndication/
Starting next year, Medicare Advantage plans will be able to add restrictions on expensive, injectable drugs administered by doctors to treat cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, macular degeneration and other serious diseases.
Seniorhelpdesk.com blog by Susan Jaffe and Kaiser Health News
2018 Orange Senior Health & Safety Fair on Friday, September 21, 2018, 9:30 AM to 12:00 pm. Located at The High Plains Community Center Gym, 525 Orange Center Road, Orange, CT 06477
By: Senior Help Desk2018 Orange Senior Health & Safety Fair on Friday, September 21, 2018, 9:30 AM to 12:00 pm. Located at The High Plains Community Center Gym, 525 Orange Center Road, Orange, CT 06477.
2018 Orange Senior Health & Safety Fair on Friday, September 21, 2018, 9:30 AM to 12:00 pm. Located at The High Plains Community Center Gym, 525 Orange Center Road, Orange, CT 06477.
2019 Harvard/Glenn Symposium on Aging will be held on Monday, May 20, 2019. Save the Date!
By: Senior Help Desk2019 Harvard/Glenn Symposium on Aging will be held on Monday, May 20, 2019. Save the Date!
Each year, the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging hosts the Harvard Symposium on Aging with a mission to educate the wider research community about advancements in this fast-paced field and to stimulate collaborative research in this area. We have been fortunate to have many of the leaders in the aging field speak at the symposia.
2019 Harvard/Glenn Symposium on Aging will be held on Monday, May 20, 2019. Save the Date!
Learning To Advance The Positives Of Aging
By: Senior Help DeskBlog by Judith Graham and Kaiser Health News
What can be done about negative stereotypes that portray older adults as out-of-touch, useless, feeble, incompetent, pitiful and irrelevant?
