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Sep 21 Tracking And Preventing Deadly Infections In Nursing Homes (Medical News Today) -- The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have each released new tools and information to help track deadly healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in nursing homes and other ... Read article »
 
Sep 14 Is Alzheimer's Preventable Before Damage Is Done? (Medical News Today) -- What if there were a way to catch Alzheimer's disease before it occurred? Is there a method to stopping this terminal and most common form of dementia? Researchers decided to see whether there might be a telling sign of Alzheimer's development which is .. Read article »
 
Aug 31 Medicare's political importance goes beyond seniors (Yahoo! Health) -- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Medicare debate promises to be front and center in this fall's presidential campaign, as not just seniors but aging baby boomers focus on retiree healthcare. Recent polling data shows that the issue resonates with ... Read article »
 
Aug 29 Nutrient Mix Improves Early Alzheimer's Patients' Memories (Advance-SLP) --

A clinical trial of an Alzheimer's disease treatment developed at MIT has found that the nutrient cocktail can improve memory in patients with early Alzheimer's Read article »

 
Aug 28 Cognitive Rehab Takes A Promising New Direction For The Elderly (Medical News Today) -- Studies have shown that declines in temporal information processing (TIP), the rate at which auditory information is processed, underlies the progressive loss of function across several cognitive systems in elderly people. This includes problem ... Read article »
 
Aug 21 Golden Living and Genesis facilities take top quality awards (McKnights) -- Two nursing homes in Wisconsin and Rhode Island have taken top honors in a national quality awards competition. Read article »
 
Aug 21 Training Program Focuses on Coping with Difficult Behaviors Associated with Alzheimer's (Advance-SLP) --

A new training program now offers help for the many families who are dealing with challenging behaviors including refusal, delusions (or false beliefs), aggression, false accusations, wandering and agitation.

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Aug 14 Anti-Medicaid states: Earning $11,000 is too much (Yahoo! Health) -- Sandra Pico is poor, but not poor enough. Read article »
 
Aug 08 No increase in Medicare drug costs for seniors (Yahoo! Health) -- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Medicare participants enrolled in the health insurance program's prescription drug benefit should see their premium cost remain steady next year, health officials said. The Department of Health and Human Service on Monda... Read article »
 
Aug 06 Chronic 'Butter Flavoring' Exposure Linked to Harmful Brain Process (Yahoo! Health) -- MONDAY, Aug. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Chronic exposure to an artificial butter flavoring ingredient, known as diacetyl, may worsen the harmful effects of a protein in the brain linked to Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study. Read article »
 
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