Safety is the number one factor seniors and their caregivers face when hoping to live within their homes instead of moving into nursing homes or assisted living facilities. There are a number of safety items that can help to ensure a seniors safety as the age in place. Handicap construction contractors can be hired to come into a home and revamp obstacles known to cause injury or harm to older adults.

Senior Citizens who need around-the-clock comprehensive care, may not have settle on the notion that they will have to be confined to a bed in a rest home facility. Instead, they may want to explore the option of live-in care. Live-in caregivers live in your home a few days a week providing care around the clock. Typically, live-in caregivers work in teams of two that return to their own residence between shifts, but the patient is cared for at all times. It is actually cheaper on the client to hire live-in care rather than 24-hour hourly care.

Many adult children today live hundreds of miles from their elderly parents as a result of the economy and other factors. There is increasing concern and stress in trying to balance family and demanding jobs with the needs of parents, particularly those who are not nearby. Are they eating? Are they well? What happens if they become ill? Local in-home care agencies such as Home Care Reliance in the Minneapolis metropolitan area are filling the need for on-site care on various levels and providing reports regularly to family.

There are a number of drugs and experimental conditions that can block cognitive function and impair learning and memory. However, scientists have recently shown that some drugs can actually improve cognitive function, which may have implications for our understanding of cognitive disorders such as Alzheimer's disease...

Alexis McKenzie, executive director of The Methodist Home of the District of Columbia Forest Side, an Alzheimer's assisted-living facility, walks with resident Catherine Peake.

A University of Victoria study aimed at identifying early warning signs of Alzheimer's disease has drawn strong interest from willing volunteers who want to help fight the deadly form of dementia.

Dementia is a general term to describe the decline in mental activity severe enough to interfere with daily activities.

New Canaan's Visiting Nurse & Hospice of Fairfield County will present a program titled `Communications Techniques and Behavioral Challenges' for those caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's disease or related dementias Thursday, March 15 at Laurel Ridge Health Care Center , 642 Danbury Road in Ridgefield, from 6 to 8 p.m. This special seminar is ... (more)

New Canaan's Visiting Nurse & Hospice of Fairfield County will present a program titled `Communications Techniques and Behavioral Challenges' for those caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's disease or related dementias Thursday, March 15 at Laurel Ridge Health Care Center, 642 Danbury Road in Ridgefield, from 6 to 8 p.m. This special seminar is ... (more)

Newswise - NEW ORLEANS - The American Academy of Neurology is awarding its 2012 Potamkin Prize for Research in Pick's, Alzheimer's and Related Diseases to Takeshi Iwatsubo, MD, PhD, with the University of Tokyo School of Medicine.

Companion care provides individuals with non-medical assistance with everyday tasks and activities for people who prefer to live in their own home under their own independence. While this usually is appealing to senior citizens, companion care may be the right choice for expectant parents, people with disabilities or others who are transitioning from a medical facility such as a hospital.

A new study suggests that people who have trouble sleeping now could be at higher risk for developing Alzheimer's later.

The presence of Alzheimer's disease will continue to grow, as long as the population continues to age.

CHICAGO Doug Wyman got up early Tuesday to make breakfast for his wife, Barbara: coffee, oatmeal and fresh fruit.

Ensuring the safety of our debilitated loved ones, especially if they are our elder loved ones can be stressful at times. Whether your loved one lives alone or in your care, there are several ways to make this task easier for everyone involved. In recent years, a great deal of technological advances have created affordable, easy to install devices that can greatly help lessen the chance of your loved one being injured or wandering.

Supposing you were a member of the so called "Greatest Generation", you'd survived the war, and enemy attacks at sea, and planes crashing on deck, and torpedoes, though you knew the men who didn't. And you lived long enough to see a man walk on the moon, and the presidents come and go, and your own kids grow up and move away; and longer still, so that you started surfing the internet like everyone did.

Despite common perceptions, malnutrition is a serious problem not just in the third world but also here in the U.S. In fact, thousands of Americans die from malnutrition every year, and it's an especially serious problem amongst older widowers and single seniors. These groups of seniors account for the highest rates, while seniors living with family members or in a retirement community - or those with a rich social life - suffer from malnutrition much less frequently.

With age comes wisdom. And often wrinkles and sometimes declining health, as well. But there are plenty of ways for seniors to stay young at heart and forever comfortable in their bodies.

Seniors face a great deal of uncertainty when they make the move into senior living. Many fear that the friends, family and daily social interactions they've always known will disappear, leaving them alone and isolated in an unfamiliar environment. They are deeply concerned that they'll be abandoned by family members, and fear they won't be able to find or make new friends.

No one ever wants to consider the necessity of leaving the home they've always known...the place where so many of their life's memories were created. It means sacrificing the freedom of home ownership, and it means turning over some of our personal care to others...reminders that we are aging and may not be able to best care for ourselves (or our homes!) anymore.