Here are some highlights from this week's news on caregiving:
Robots Take Caregiving to a Whole New Level
The Fiscal Times (Reuters) | May 27, 2014
"Imagine you're 85, and living alone. Your children are halfway across the country, and you're widowed. You have a live-in aide - but it's not human. Your personal robot reminds you to take your medicine, monitors your diet and exercise, plays games with you, and even helps you connect with family members on the Internet."
Study: Record Number of Women Receiving Disability Payment
News Max | May 29, 2014
"A record number of women are receiving Social Security disability payments as females have steadily outpaced new male recipients since 2000, new research shows. Women made up about 29 percent of all workers on disability in 1970. By 2000, that number had risen to 43 percent. In 2012, the last year for which government figures are available, the number was up to 48 percent, according to a report released this month by the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA)."
NJ Assembly Advances Caregiver Bill for Patients Discharged from the Hospital
NJ.com/The Star-Ledger | May 24, 2014
"In a move recognizing the important role that a spouse, relative or a friend plays when a patient is discharged from a hospital, the state Assembly has overwhelmingly approved legislation requiring designated caregivers receive detailed instructions and training on how to carry out their responsibilities. Championed by the AARP, the bill (A2955) would let patients admitted to the hospital identify a caregiver who will be providing assistance when the patient returns home."
Scientists Identify Metabolic Link between Aging, Parkinson's
Medical Xpress | May 30, 2014
"University of Alabama researchers identified within animal models an enzyme that links genetic pathways that control aging with the death of dopamine neurons - a clinical hallmark of Parkinson's disease. Further study is needed, but the enzyme could later prove a target, the scientists said, for boosting efforts to prevent or reduce problems associated with the malfunction of dopamine-producing neurons in the brains of diseased patients."
Scientists Urge Study of Environmental Factors That May Speed Aging
National Geographic | May 28, 2014
"Why do our bodies age at different rates? Why can some people run marathons at the age of 70, while others are forced to use a walker? Genes are only part of the answer. A trio of scientists from the University of North Carolina argue in a new paper that more work needs to be done on "gerontogens"-factors, including substances in the environment, that can accelerate the aging process."
Caregiver: 'I don't think I quite realized what I was getting into"
Omaha World Harold (Omaha.com) | May 25, 2014
"When Kristen Berry recites her wedding vows in July with her fiance, John Weinburgh, she'll already have that "in sickness and in health" part down solid. For the past three years Berry has been a full-time unpaid caregiver for Weinburgh, 37, an Iraq War veteran who has been a quadriplegic since a 2007 training accident."
Cool Link of the Week:
New Website for Kids & Teens with Parents Diagnosed
with Frontotemporal Degeneration (Dementia)
AFTD Kids and Teens
From the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (AFTD)
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