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Senators call for federal investigation of assisted living.
Older adults with smartphone addiction have poorer sleep, study finds.
Can AI Turn Music into Medicine?
For seniors with hoarding disorder, a support group helps confront stigma and isolation.
At 95, He’s the World’s Oldest Speedskater. He’s Gunning for 100.
3-year-old saves great-grandmother after she fell and hit her head: ‘Quite a blessing’.
Headstone cleaning boy enjoys huge response.
Older adults borrowing high sums to offset medical costs.
My Husband Has Dementia. Can I Put Him in a Home and Move to Europe?
Resident-on-resident attacks: Not just an American long-term care issue.
Senators call for federal investigation of assisted living
McKnight’s - Three senators have asked the Government Accountability Office to investigate whether additional federal oversight of assisted living is needed as part of an update they’ve requested to the GAO’s 2018 report on state and federal oversight of assisted living.
“Given the threats to residents’ health and safety revealed by GAO’s 2018 report, a new review is necessary to evaluate the extent to which the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and state Medicaid agencies have improved their capacity to protect the hundreds of thousands of seniors and individuals with disabilities who reside in these facilities,” Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), the ranking member of the Senate Special Committee on Aging; Ron Wyden (D-OR), the ranking members of the Senate Finance Committee; and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), a member of the Aging Committee, wrote in a letter dated yesterday to GAO Comptroller General Eugene L. Dodaro.
This is needed!
Older adults with smartphone addiction have poorer sleep, study finds
McKnight’s - Older adults with more smartphone usage had poorer sleep quality, according to a new study. Depression and loneliness played a significant role in making sleep quality even worse.
Can AI Turn Music into Medicine?
CNN - It’s no surprise that music can affect our emotions. But can music actually improve our mental health? Aaron Labbé, founder and chief technology officer at the Toronto-based company LUCID, believes it can.
For seniors with hoarding disorder, a support group helps confront stigma and isolation.
Phila Inquirer - Hoarding is the only mental-health condition that becomes more common as people age. Trying to get to its roots, and reduce the clutter, can be a challenge.
At 95, He’s the World’s Oldest Speedskater. He’s Gunning for 100.
NYT - Iichi Marumo started competing in his late 80s, after a life spent farming, publishing poetry and volunteering to fly in a kamikaze mission during World War II.
3-year-old saves great-grandmother after she fell and hit her head: ‘Quite a blessing’
Today - A young boy saved his great-grandmother after she fell and hit her head on a concrete stoop. “She was bleeding,” Bridger, 3, of Strasburg, Colorado, tells TODAY.com. Bridger’s great-grandmother Sharon Lewis, 77, tells TODAY.com that the boy is a hero.
Headstone cleaning boy enjoys huge response
BBC - A 10-year-old boy who has started cleaning gravestones said his role has gained him new respect among school friends. Earlier this year Ben, from Ilkeston, Derbyshire, washed his grandmother's memorial and then decided to offer the service to neighboring families.
Older adults borrowing high sums to offset medical costs
McKnight’s - Americans have borrowed $74 billion to pay medical costs for themselves or a family member in the past 12 months, and the amount of borrowing increased dramatically with age, according to a West Health-Gallup Healthcare Survey of 3,583 US adults conducted in November.
My Husband Has Dementia. Can I Put Him in a Home and Move to Europe?
NYT - The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the obligations we have to a spouse with a degenerative illness.
Resident-on-resident attacks: Not just an American long-term care issue
McKnight’s - A new study reveals resident-on-resident attacks are not a problem unique to American nursing homes but more likely embedded in shared cultural expectations of institutional care and the stresses of dementia itself.
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